Gallery of the Absurd: Campbell's Introduces Cream of Sodium Soup

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Campbell's Introduces Cream of Sodium Soup

In homage to my childhood obsession with Wacky Packages (A collection of trading cards/stickers featuring parodies of consumer products), I've decide to make a few of my own. While they are meant to be parodies, each card is based in either a glaring truth or a blatant misconception. After a public interest organization slammed Campbell's soup as overpriced disease-promoting cans of salt and water, I thought it would be nice if Campbell's came clean and added Cream of Sodium to their product line. Medium: graphite on paper, digital color, Cream of Sodium concept by Paula E.

July 18, 2011 in Toxic Trading Cards | Permalink

Comments

Would that Campbell soups were the only culprit for our massively increased salt intake in recent decades...

Posted by: Internal doors | September 21, 2011 at 10:36 AM

I miss Wacky Packages. You need to make a bunch and sell packs.

Posted by: midevil | July 23, 2011 at 06:47 PM

Wacky Packages were the best things ever. Better than Mad magazine, better than Saturday cartoons, better than Star Wars, and almost as good as shooting real guns at gophers. Oh, I guess shooting guns was the best thing. But Wacky Packages was a close second.

Posted by: Francine Plowhorse | July 22, 2011 at 12:49 PM

I love how the FDA and WHO just recently came out and told us that processed luncheon meets are one of the highest cancer causing agents on the planet because sodium nitrite and monosodium glutamate. But you know, them crrraazeee "conspiracy theorists" have been saying that stuff for the last 15 years. Awesome!

Posted by: Artisan | July 20, 2011 at 01:15 PM

I love this design. Maybe they should be put up outside markets to make people think a little more about what they are putting in their bodies

Posted by: graphic design Birmingham | July 20, 2011 at 07:51 AM

f'ing mmmmmm good.

Posted by: mmmmmmjackie | July 19, 2011 at 10:52 PM

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers" garden.

Posted by: nike free run | July 19, 2011 at 02:10 AM

Red,
how does one fend off "the gross" if one IS the gross?

Posted by: Vern | July 18, 2011 at 05:37 PM

I'd give my eyeteeth for a pack of Wacky Packages that included this, AND a stick of that pink-sugar-crumbly-clay bubblegum. Jeanyuss.

If you freeze a can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup, you've got a helluva salt lick.

Posted by: Viper Tetsu | July 18, 2011 at 03:30 PM

It's true! Although Campbell's chicken noodle soup (broth only) is hands down THE BEST when fending off 'the gross'. It will always have a spot in my pantry.

Posted by: Red | July 18, 2011 at 02:45 PM

I tried to digest this, but I just couldn't.

Posted by: Vern | July 18, 2011 at 01:28 PM