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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 99 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Willy Wonka predicted this. Just spit it out before it gets to the blueberry pie.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Take the blueberry and float to New Zealand

[–] don@lemm.ee 55 points 4 days ago (2 children)

All “could we”, no “should we”

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why would it be sweet? It's more like a bouillon cube.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

The image looks like a hard candy, i.e. made with sugar, and since I couldn't find a Nutrition Facts label to check the sugar content I went with what it looks like to me. I'm not sure sucking on a bouillon cube would be all that great, too salty. But hey, to each their own. I didn't mean to 'yuck on your yum'.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 4 days ago

Scientists? Preoccupied!

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago

National soup month

Fuck off and die, marketing weasels

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 72 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I've already gone over the fact that they are, in fact, gross, and you won't want to try more than one. But the thing is, if you buy a container, you can bring it to your friends and family and say, "Hey, want to try a salty drop that's supposed to taste like chicken noodle soup? They're gross."

Or, take them into the doctor/dentist/bank office and mix them into the bowl of hard candies.

[–] don@lemm.ee 28 points 4 days ago

That’s so evil, lol, I love it

[–] finley@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I did that, my dentist would definitely know it was me., Lol

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What kind of evil dentists has hard candies available in their lobby?

[–] finley@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

Just the regular evil kind

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

So my take from this is that this could be a neat alternative to bullion and a funny gag gift. That's honestly not nearly as awful as I expected.

I've gotten salty candy at Asian markets, I'm sure of this has been done better elsewhere.

[–] soupguy@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They stole my catchphrase!

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Back to "Stew you can chew"

[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Soup you can suck on

MC Comings, VP, Business Unit Director for Progresso

😏

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean people already suck on boullion cubes

[–] FeloniousPunk 12 points 4 days ago
[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago

Enjoy your hypertension

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 7 points 4 days ago
[–] NRay7882@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Progresso ruined the Chickarina soup by shrinking the meatballs and replacing acini de pepe with stars and the gelatinized soup they come in.

[–] sc2pirate@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago
[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] conc@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago

.. me the soup drops!