Campbell fail

[digitS']

I just caught a glimpse of a second but one new ad for soup ... well, I'm glad we make homemade.

Guy sick on couch. Lady asks him something. He says his mom would fix him chicken soup. She tosses him a phone as she goes out the door.

The last scene is him morosely stirring a pot on the stove.

I'm trying the marinade with smoked paprika again. The first time, I shoulda listened to Martha and left the chicken in my marinade for 8 hours, minimum. It wasn't close to being bacon but, you know what? It made real good chicken noodle soup.

Steve
who has been sneezing quite a bit, lately ~ sniff ~

 

[catjac1975]

I just caught a glimpse of a second but one new ad for soup ... well, I'm glad we make homemade.

Guy sick on couch. Lady asks him something. He says his mom would fix him chicken soup. She tosses him a phone as she goes out the door.

The last scene is him morosely stirring a pot on the stove.

I'm trying the marinade with smoked paprika again. The first time, I shoulda listened to Martha and left the chicken in my marinade for 8 hours, minimum. It wasn't close to being bacon but, you know what? It made real good chicken noodle soup.

Steve
who has been sneezing quite a bit, lately ~ sniff ~

I too hate this ad. She tells him to call his Mom. It does not make you an independent woman to not want to take care of a sick loved one, as she breezes out the door.

 

[digitS']

Does not make me want to join him stirring that soup.

Maybe if he was dancing and there were sparkling ponies, or something.

He went from smug to confused to pathetic.

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

Wait! The ad I've seen does not show a sick, helpless child. Knowing how much "sicker" DH gets with his cold than I get with mine, (He's in bed. I'm up still cooking and cleaning.) I don't have a lot of sympathy for his show.

I doubt that the man is seriously ill. I'd do whatever to take care of my own DH because that is my job, but I would have suggested (and did teach) my teenaged son how to heat up his own soup so he's prepared as a adult to care for himself.

 

[ninnymary]

I too hate this ad. She tells him to call his Mom. It does not make you an independent woman to not want to take care of a sick loved one, as she breezes out the door.

I agree with you cat. I love making soup for my sick kids. In fact, I even make soup for my coaches when they are sick. It's the least I can do for them and I'm always grateful that I can do it.

Mary

 

[so lucky]

I don't know...I thought it was funny. Would he have made soup for her if she had been on the couch with a cold? I doubt it.

 

[thistlebloom]

My husband would.
I would have to walk him through where the pots and the can opener are , but he would be willing to help me.

As we get older I have watched him become more aware and appreciative of the work it takes to keep a household running smoothly and the effort that goes into just general housekeeping. He has voluntarily taken over a few chores by himself and always asks me what I'd like him to do to help out.
I'm thinking of keeping him...

 

[so lucky]

My husband would.
I would have to walk him through where the pots and the can opener are , but he would be willing to help me.

As we get older I have watched him become more aware and appreciative of the work it takes to keep a household running smoothly and the effort that goes into just general housekeeping. He has voluntarily taken over a few chores by himself and always asks me what I'd like him to do to help out.
I'm thinking of keeping him...

I think you should! He sounds like a keeper to me.

 

[Smart Red]

My husband would.
I would have to walk him through where the pots and the can opener are , but he would be willing to help me.

I'm thinking of keeping him...

My DH would make (heat a can) of chicken soup for me. I know because he did. . . once.

After my third trip to the hospital with an un-going mis-carriage, I was given doctor's orders for complete bed rest. As soon as we got home and into bed, DH decided it was lunch time so he offered to heat some soup.

1. where do you keep the cans of soup?
2. what kind of soup do I use?
3. where is the can opener?
4. where is the pan? which one do I use?
5. do I have to add water?
6. where is the spoon I use?
7. how much water do I add?
8. where do you keep the bowls? which bowls do I use?
9. where are the spoons?
10. it isn't hot yet. How long do I heat soup?
11. what's wrong with the stove? It's not even warm.

At that, I got out of bed and went to the kitchen to turn on the burner, heated, served the soup and rinsed the dishes before going back to bed. I blame it on his mother. She was doing everything for him (still ironing his shirts and pants) when he was 32 and I took him away from her.

Wonderful woman! I loved her! She raised a good man and I found him to be a real keeper. I spoiled him and continued to take care of him the way he was used to. He spoiled me in his own hard-working, do anything for me way.

Pretty much like that, thistlebloom?

 

[thistlebloom]

Well, no, not too close. He was the oldest of 5 and out of the house as a teen.
His mom took the sink or swim approach to raising the 3 oldest boys.
So he shifted for himself until we married when he was 28. He never cared to learn to cook. Mostly lived on peanut butter sandwiches, so he has always been appreciative of my efforts and an easy keeper.