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Pretty meh soup, by the way. Not worth the price... but I see the word 'coconut' and I can't resist.

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago

Mustard and celery are allergens so this is relevant for some people.

[-] Neuromancer49@midwest.social 21 points 2 weeks ago

For me and mine, it's carrots. Do you know how difficult it is to find carrot-free items? Impossible.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 weeks ago

Yup - carrots are often used as a natural sweetener so carrot juice ends up in fucking everything.

[-] br3d@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Now imagine that, but onions

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

I used to live near a soup shop called nunyons that specifically catered to that allergy! If you're ever in Burlington VT give it a go!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I can imagine. That must rule out most storebought broths (I don't know about stocks) since mirepoix (celery/onion/carrot) is how you start delicious broth. I can't eat poultry and they put chicken bouillon on bbq lays potato chips. That was a fun discovery.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

It is hard to find onion-free chicken stock. My dog goes nuts for chicken but is a fussy eater otherwise, so we're always on the lookout for dog-friendly stock to add to his kibble.

I don't eat pig and Applebee's adds bacon to their Mac and cheese. They list like 8 different cheeses in the description but don't mention the bacon. Parents didn't want me to make a fuss so I ate it. That was not fun. (This was years ago, ymmv, I don't talk to those parents anymore because reasons.)

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Whatever is in hummus from nice restaurants, for me. Something fresh? And I used to make hummus in a restaurant and never had a problem. Most of the ingredients came from a can though.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Have you tested sumac? Sometimes the nicer med restaurants around here will sprinkle that spice on their dishes.

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting. I didn't know sumac was anything other than poisonous. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac Of course no one would use urushiol as a spice, would they?

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Me and mine have various food sensitivities (latex, nightshades, pork). I use an android app "fig" to check things at the grocery store--scan the barcode and Fig tells me who shouldn't eat it and why. It does smart things like label "spices" as yellow because maybe it's peppers maybe it's not. The free version is sufficient for one person. The paid version lets you add more profiles.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago

I'm allergic to poultry. Do you know how many places consider chicken broth vegetarian? (yeah I know about the better than bouillon faux chicken broth. I can eat that I just think their veggie broth tastes better) I can't/won't eat soup I don't make myself anymore just out of self-preservation. I'll go to a vegan-friendly place though. Thank gods for them. They actually take it seriously (sometimes), and will at least tell you.

But yeah, my point is folk can have the most bizarre allergies. It's nice to have everything labeled. Fuck cans that say "spices" or "natural flavors" on them. People need to know.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah you can't trust vegan dishes in places that serve animal products if your life depends on it. They will absolutely serve you animal products and not give a damn. Just had a vegan brownie that tasted weirdly of milk powder send me to the toilet the whole day.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

As a vegetarian in the US, restaurants here have gotten way better about dietary restrictions over the years. Yes, some places still do mislead, but the vast majority usually ask you and the kitchen about ingredients and accommodate accordingly.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Even if you're just a vegetarian and not a vegan, it's really hard to know if any cheese you might be eating was made with rennet, which often comes from calves. There is plant-based rennet, but the local pizza place probably won't know whether its cheeses use that or not.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's really good to know. I still think my statement stands true if you exclude cheese and wine, and it's pretty easy to find vegetarian options for many common desserts.

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

🤣🤣🤣 no we fucking haven't. 100% of vegetarian dishes that taste better than most have chicken broth in it. There's one dude who checks once per year and shit has all vegetarian ingredients that day but all the rest? 100% Nope.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Someone's life always depends on it. I am askance towards other vegans who ostensibly understand it is a life and death concern, and then put that concern in the hands of a minimum wage fast food worker who doesn't understand the significance of what they are doing.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

I was in Denmark just the other day. In a super popular local cafe. I asked if the pesto avocado sandwich ws vegan. She was puzzled: hm yes of course, there's nothing in there that wouldn't be... So I pressed: but is the pesto vegan? Normal pesto contains cheese. She went to check, and it was normal pesto.

And FYI Denmark has great, free, education and social security. People also earn well, even the barista.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah! There's lots of spices! There's ginger, baby, sporty, posh, and scary spice! Five different spices!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I agree that people need to know, but you can be allergic to so many foods. I'm allergic to pomegranate, but I would rarely expect to encounter pomegranate where it wouldn't normally be.

I guess the 'no celery' thing makes sense, but why would you put mustard in coconut carrot soup in the first place? I kind of feel like they might as well have put 'no peanuts' on there too. I'm betting a peanut allergy is far, far, far more common than a mustard allergy.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 14 points 2 weeks ago

Mustard is an amazing spice to use (along with others) when roasting carrots. I'm sure mustard (as long as you're not allergic) would be a valuable addition to a carrot soup. OP commented the soup was meh. It probably was lacking in spices.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am the OP and it was, indeed, lacking in spices. But I would also not want to add the flavor of mustard to the flavor of coconut.

Although I will say that my biggest complaint was that it could have had more coconut flavor.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure I understand why "mustard free" would be listed, they should just be required to list all ingredients. Like the person above said "spices" isn't okay.

But that said, mustard is in most of my homemade soups. Once you discover the joys of toasted mustard seeds, you don't go back

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I love mustard.

I don't know that I'd love coconut and mustard. And I'd try almost anything with coconut.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Do you like Indian food? A ton of curries have both mustard and coconut in them. It's not prepared mustard like Frenches, it's the seeds, toasted in a pan, and then ground. It's amazing

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I do like Indian food, but I don't remember ever having a dish with both mustard seed and coconut.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So I don't know coconut carrot soup, but I put mustard seed in my tomato soup (I know it sounds weird, but I have a recipe I've been developing for years)

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I would give that a try, but I just could not imagine coconut and mustard being a good flavor combo.

I've heard weirder though. A friend of mine announced on social media that he decided to put chicken stock in his coffee and said he really liked it. I have odd friends.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

If I remember, i'll try to take pictures because it is one of those recipes I invented myself without measuring spoons. One step is: pour out a 3cm diameter circle of mustard seed into your mortar, then half-heartedly pestle the shit out of it because it's delightful to get a mustard pop in the middle of your soup. The rest is just "add spices and wait for the damn can to heat up" because it's a lazy recipe.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 2 weeks ago

Consumers may be allergic or have intolerance to other ingredients, but only the 14 allergens are required to be declared as allergens by food law.

The 14 allergens are: celery, cereals containing gluten (such as wheat, rye, barley, and oats), crustaceans (such as prawns, crabs and lobsters), eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs (such as mussels and oysters), mustard, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sulphur dioxide and sulphites (if the sulphur dioxide and sulphites are at a concentration of more than ten parts per million) and tree nuts (such as almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, brazil nuts, cashews, pecans, pistachios and macadamia nuts).

Yes, they definitely are a thing. Far more so than "GMO free" is.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

I know folks with autism-related sensory sensitivities who really can't stand celery and have trouble with a lot of canned soups and broths because of it.

[-] Zorsith 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, it doesn't help that the primary flavor of celery is spicy sweat.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

My partner has a mustard allergy, it's not that uncommon but we normally have it in such small quantities that people with mild allergies brush it off as indigestible or nonspecific itchiness.

I haven't heard of a celery allergy (those folks should definitely refer to themselves as celeriacs) but food intolerances are pretty varied and wide spread.

I'm hoping that these extra allergens providing market pressure along with regulations might help reduce the crazy artificial additives - American packaged food is absolutely terrible for you in ways we're still discovering.

[-] trapezohedron@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Stupid woke soup makers! Next they'll tell me I have to list all the tree nuts I put in my farmers market "Just for Babies" toothpaste!

/s

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago

I would actually buy this. I'm super sensitive to the taste of the celery shit that they put in soup. They put it in soups where it doesn't belong.

Fucking clam chowder has no need for celery seasoning. Potato soup has no need for celery seasoning.

Campbell's needs to get out of the soup business completely and instead suck start shotguns for a living.

[-] TheLightItBurns@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Me reading this :

1st line : yeah, I've never noticed this before, but if it bothers you; hell yeah get that celery out of there. 2nd line : I agree with all of these statements 3rd line : ... goddamn...

A minute later : You know what, fuck Campbell's! I'm won over. That third line is legit.

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for having my back. I know that my suggested career path is not a very profitable one for Campbell's but I will say that it will take care of them for the rest of their life.

[-] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Mustard isn't a super common allergen AFAIK, but I have heard of it. I'm a little surprised they bother to mention celery, but people can be allergic to anything.

[-] Sunrosa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Celery is one of my worst allergies, but I'm allergic to all uncooked fruits and vegetables lol

[-] tankplanker@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

As others have mentioned, you can be allergic to mustard, however mustard often contains gluten either from it being processed in the same factory as other gluten containing products or from the vinegar that is added. Many vinegars contain gluten due to the barley.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

I know celery is high in nitrates so products would say no nitrates but list celery juice so they still had nitrates just from a natural source which did not make the nitrates any more healthy.

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