that that was MY Gramma's recipe. Thanksgiving cant happen without it!

Now THAT was a successful marketing campaign.

God, I loathe that shit.

One year, half the guests brought the horrid GBC to the meal! The discussion began about whose secret family recipe was the original. When I pointed out that the dish was invented by a soup company employee, the cries of “my family recipe wasn’t, no way!” ensued.

I’d sooner eat a bowl of shit.

I'm sure I've made it dozens of times.

making probably one of the most famous American recipes. Very impressive.

In lieu of roses...

Campbell soup is being threatened with a boycott after that vile tweet by their lobbyist.

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Making it with canned soup and canned green beans sucks.

I do know that in the 50's and even early 60's mixing food with Campbells soup was a big deal.

Not sorry to see the demise of tomato aspic "salad", tho.

Good grief.

I'm glad no one in my family was ambitious enough to make aspic from canned tomato soup.

That is SO 1950s.

.....And did! I grew up in the 1950's and didn't taste a fresh vegetable until I was 19, and left home. Other than tomato on a sandwich, or corn-on-the-cob in season, it was all out of a friggin' can in my childhood home.

Mom wanted quick, fast and easy. I didn't know what broccoli, asparagus, or cauliflower was, until I was on my own. Now I rarely ever have any vegetable from a can. As for GBC...UGH! I've always loathed that crap. The soup alone is gag worthy.

A mess of bleached out vegetables, none of which retained their original flavors.

Truly horrible. We probably ate it weekly.

.....My mother used to make beef-vegetable soup with leftover chuck roast. The day she discovered Veg-All was cause for culinary sorrow in our house. Just open a can, dump it in. No one could distinguish the difference between the carrots and the potatoes. They all tasted the same.

But the worse she made was after cooking a ham hock with beans, the next day she'd chop that up and add it to....CHILI! Ugh, slick ham fat just doesn't work well in a dish like chili.

My mother's generation was raised on home canned stuff, which could be a food poison source, so she boiled to death anything that came in a jar or a can.
Including Veg-all. If you throw that in a pot with tomato soup, some cut up hot dogs, you have what she called poor man's beef stew.

With a side of canned boiled to death spinach.

Seriously, I thought for years we were the kids that survived her cooking, that there were some before us who didn't make it.

GBC must be on the table at all major holidays. Use canned green beans as the original recipe intends. Most of the family hates mushrooms so I use cream of celery, which is better IMO.

This is not one of my favorite dishes, but my granddaughter always makes it. We also always have "Julia Child Green Beans", fresh green beans, blanched, then saute'd in EVO with a sprinkle of garlic on them.

Gosh, makes me hungry - gotta go make lunch. All American favorite: Campbell's tomato soup, grilled cheese sandwich with dill pickle on the side.

I use Alton Brown's recipe and it's truly delicious.