Food product reviews - Campbells Wonton and F'Real Shakes
By Faye
@FayeHazel (40230)
United States
October 4, 2018 12:53pm CST
Hi My Lot, I don't do a lot of these review posts, so I thought I would give you a couple of reviews today.
We'll start our main course off with a review of Campbell's brand Wonton Soup.
Now, I knew this wasn't going to be like the wonton soup offered at my favorite Chinese Restaurant, with it's large, voluptuous wontons stuffed with a tasty meatball and layer on layer of yummy noodle.
Instead it was Campbells chicken soup broth, with what was sort of like a half of a mini canned ravioli with 1/2 the required filling.
For $1.50 a can it wasn't bad, but I think I would rather just wait and get the "real deal".
For our dessert course I give you my review of the f'real milkshake. For those who haven't seen it - it's a machine that has been popping up in a lot of gas stations. You choose a milkshake out of the cooler case, and then, after reading the on screen instructions, and selecting your preferences of how thick or thin you like your shake to be, you place your milkshake in the attached mixing area. What happens next is - it gets sucked up into the machine, where a lot of whirring noises happen and at a short time later the machine drops your drink back down.
The flavor was great and the price being around $3 to $4 wasn't too bad - but the whole experience left me wondering how they clean the blending parts inside the machine.
Youtube video in link showing a machine being used. It isn't my video or me in it.
Have tried any new food lately?
So I was at Camp Roberts for annual training in 2014 and the PX traded their soda fountain machine for this milkshake machine. This machine was awesome, ther...
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
5 Oct 18
Food snob. I suppose next you will say no Ramen noodles either. lol
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
13 Nov 18
@ledante I tried it once at a Chinese buffet, didn't like that one, but maybe that wasn't the best example of it, either.
Is that one of your favorites?
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@ledante (1086)
• Taipei, Taiwan
9 Nov 18
@FayeHazel have you ever had hot and sour soup?
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
4 Oct 18
We grew up with Campbell's soup, it's one of those foods we were fed when we were sick, had colds and fever and unable to go to school. I love Campbell's but maybe not a version of one of my favorite Chinese restaurant soup. I would stick with old time favorites like cream of mushroom.
Those meat ball like things on Wonton are actually Chinese dumplings, I had tasted authentic shark's fin version, a little bit expensive but very delicious before the ban, I have stopped supporting poaching and use of ingredients that could come from endangered species so now I think they have a shark's fin substitute.
For some reason milkshake is not very popular in the Philippines.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
5 Oct 18
Nothing quite like soup when you aren't feeling well.
You're right though, the wonton is so much better from a Chinese restaurant.
Ah! I was curious what the meat in the wonton was. Delicious!
Oh wow, you had real shark fin soup? It's supposed to be wonderfully healthy, isn't it?
Hmm, instead of milkshake - does my memory serve me correct - do you have bubble tea there? I love bubble tea more than milkshake, anyway :-)
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
5 Oct 18
@FayeHazel wonton I think has so many variations, think every Chinese province or region has it's own version, from pork, lamb, beef, sea food, crab meat etc.. Or in combination, actually it's dumplings, it could be eaten steamed or fried with special sauce, or the wonton soup and most of the time with noodles. Filipinos also have a version called " Pancit Molo" (you can search it) the wrapper use to be so tedious to prepare could now be readily bought.
I think it's the collagen that the Chinese believe that is beneficial, we have to put in mind that their cooking runs parallel to their traditional medicine. Not all shark's fin are from the man eaters that we all love to imagine lol.
We call it milk tea here, I'm not a fan, but my children are, there's a milk tea place where they meet, hang around with friends and do their homeworks and projects.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
8 Oct 18
@louievill Ah, I have heard similar. Actually I have heard that the "Chinese" food we get here in the US. is actually highly Americanized.
I can only imagine how unhandy making that sort of wrapper could be!
I think there is a lot of traditional medicine. Actually I think a combining of East and West medicine would be most effective, but the 2 rarely seem to be prescribed by a physician.
Ah true, it is more rewarding to think on Shark's Fin as coming froma nasty shark.... may not be so.
Oh lucky about the milk tea place. We had one open up here …. I love it!
One time I had a dessert , it was like a very chewey bar from the Philippines , had a lot of coconut to it
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
5 Oct 18
I got curious and looked it up. So apparently the machine seals up after each use and goes on a self clean cycle. lol. Love it!
Ah yes, now I want so real deal wonton soup, badly!
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
6 Oct 18
@FayeHazel got to love a self clean cycle! I hope you get to have some real deal wonton soup soon.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
8 Oct 18
@bluesa Thanks, I sure do want some :-)
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
6 Oct 18
@FayeHazel Now, that would be awesome if I had a self-clean kitchen.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
8 Oct 18
@just4him It's a great thought, isn't it?
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
5 Oct 18
I looked it up, seems like the machine seals itself up after each use and does a self clean cycle. Cool! I would like all of my kitchen to work that way lol
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@JudyEv (382811)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Oct 18
@FayeHazel That's good to know. Some public toilets do that too. 
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
5 Oct 18
I got curious so I looked it up. Apparently after each drink is made, the machine seals itself off - and does an auto wash. COOL! All kitchen appliances should do that. lol
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@amadeo (111937)
• United States
5 Oct 18
@FayeHazel If I can remember some of them.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
5 Oct 18
That is more re-assuring to know that handmade drinks are made with very well cleaned instruments. :-)
That's cool, actually. I would love to read more from your soda jerk days
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Oct 18
Never heard of those milkshake machines before.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
5 Oct 18
There are a lot of them around here.... not a bad treat - though I usually don't go for sweets
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
8 Oct 18
@Marty1 Ah yes, I'm normally not too much for sweets, but once in a rare while. :-) Though I'd much rather have salt. ;-)
Oh yes, apparently the f'real shakes are actually ice cream frozen really solid. When the machine mixes them up it adds hot water to it so it becomes drinkable texure. I hope you find one to try, they can be a lot of fun.
No wonton soup? Oh it's so addictive , at least I like
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