Palm Oil Soup anyone?

@destry (2572)
Kirkwall, Scotland
October 26, 2015 8:03am CST
I am a complainer - I love to complain about things that are not right, be it bad service in restaurants or poor quality products. . . and today I get to practice my sport of complaining! On Friday I bought a packet of chicken soup from Tesco for the Mrs to take to work, normally, we make our own but, these packets of dried soup powder are handy for a quick hit of warmth on a cold day. We tried one each, and it was absolutely disgusting! Tasted very salty and no chicken flavour at all. I looked at the ingredients on the packet and was shocked to read that the chicken soup had more palm oil then chicken! Potato Starch, Maltodextrin, Dried Glucose Syrup, Flavourings (contain Milk), Palm Oil, Dried Chicken (2%), Onion Powder, Milk Proteins, Thickener (Guar Gum), Stabilisers (Dipotassium Phosphate, Trisodium Citrate), Salt, Chicken Powder, Dried Chives, Ground Black Pepper If I knew it was palm oil soup I would not have bought it! And what on earth is Maltodextrin? So, when I head back to tesco I will be complaining and hopefully be getting a £5 gift card. If I complain loudly enough, they may make it £10!
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Kevin Akash
@kevinakash (2084)
• Sri Lanka
26 Oct 15
don't say in public that you love to complain about things that are not right . 'cause masses of people will come to your home tomorrow to make complaints. Do you know that in europe more than 60% of the complaints are not made beacuse most people hesitate to go against huge companies.So you are a different person if my teacher said true statistics today in the class.
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Happy Homestead
@destry (2572)
• Kirkwall, Scotland
26 Oct 15
Thats an interesting statistic!
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Gudheart
@gudheart (12659)
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26 Oct 15
@destry let us know if you do get a discount voucher :D
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Boingboing
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
27 Oct 15
To be honest, if I were Tesco I wouldn't pay you for a complaint like this. Packet soup always tastes rubbish and the ingredients were clearly listed on the pack. This one's a case of 'caveat emptor'.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (111544)
• El Paso, Texas
27 Oct 15
Eewwww, that sounds terrible, I hope you get 20 pounds.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (461776)
• Switzerland
26 Oct 15
I do not buy anything containing Pal Oil, this is a dangerous oil and it even tastes disgusting.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (461776)
• Switzerland
26 Oct 15
@destry OMG, I made the same mistake with a bag of bread for toasts, they were horrible, not even the birds want the crumbles.
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Happy Homestead
@destry (2572)
• Kirkwall, Scotland
26 Oct 15
I do try to avoid it, but I was in a rush and did not read the label until it was too late!
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Happy Homestead
@destry (2572)
• Kirkwall, Scotland
26 Oct 15
@LadyDuck I do normally try to make everything myself from the basic components - chicken soup to me is made of chicken, veggies, herbs and water - so it was a bit of a shock to see the list of things that I can't even pronounce! Dipotassium Phosphate really? That really belongs in a soup!
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Gudheart
@gudheart (12659)
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26 Oct 15
I wonder why that had to put that into soup! Very strange.
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Gudheart
@gudheart (12659)
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26 Oct 15
@destry Thanks, I will look forward to know what they say about it.
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Happy Homestead
@destry (2572)
• Kirkwall, Scotland
26 Oct 15
I will keep you updated indeed!
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
27 Oct 15
There is not much "chicken" in the ingredients, t'is true, @destry.
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Boingboing
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
26 Oct 15
Maltodextrin is a hydrolysed starch and will be there to thicken the soup. It's nothing to worry about.
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