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Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)

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nakymaton:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 24, 2006, 04:35:49 pm ---Mel, U make me sick!! "I wasn't alive in 1963"  ::) Well, I was definitely around then so I will give U the soup scoop. Yes, dehydrated soup was around in 1963.

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ROTFL. Fair enough. (But I was alive by the time they actually landed on the moon, see, and I figured that maybe they just couldn't make it to the moon because they kept trying to pack cans of soup and those cans of soup are real hard to pack? No? Hey, I'm just trying to confess that I'm a clueless rugrat here, that's all.)

I confess I was thinking about the dehydrated soup that I've packed on the closest thing I ever did to spending a summer herding sheep. We bought it at Whole Foods. I couldn't picture Ennis sending the Basque to Whole Foods. ;D

I probably shouldn't ask about ziplock bags either, huh.

Front-Ranger:
Can I shuffle back to my trailer now, hun?  ;D

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 24, 2006, 04:23:15 pm ---This is a good question, Jeff. I already started this topic. "Don't Never Order Soup" is over on Chez Tremblay at

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=3330.0

but if you'd like to have your own never order soup topic here, that's fine with me too.

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Mea culpa. Sorry for the inadvertent duplication of thread title. As you can see, it's been changed.

While I was being a bit of a smarty-pants when I wrote the original post, I also have genuinely wondered about packing boxes of soup compared to cans of beans. Have to say, I still don't get how squarish boxes of powdered/dehydrated soup could be more difficult to pack than cans of beans.  ;)

delalluvia:
It could be simply the shape of the box.  Some boxes (cases) of canned goods come in easily totable boxes - the number of cans in the box is small - others can come in high numbers in a case and thus are heavy and largish and would be more difficult to pack.

Andrew:
I always thought the the soup boxes were hard to pack because the cardboard was probably flimsy. The sides of the saddlebags and the ropes squeeze against boxes like that and split the cardboard.  This is from the viewpoint of someone who has brought home food in backpacks oftener than I like to think for the last thirty years! And has the disasters to show for it, including a scene much like the one in the movie where the flour goes up in clouds.

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