Campbell's Soup VP Hot Mic "no soup for you"

[angrychair]

Recently a Campbell's Soup senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Martin Bally was caught on a hot mic recording his words for over an hour in which he says some pretty insane things:

Bally is heard saying, "We have s**t for f***king poor people. Who buys our s**t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f**‘s in it."

He also referenced "bioengineered meat," saying, "I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer."

He also says some pretty racist stuff about Indians that I will not repeat here.

All in all its pretty disgusting.
This was brought to light by company whistle blower Robert Garza, a former security analyst with the company that was fired after he reported the incident and Mr. Garza is now suing Campbell's for wrongful termination.

Source:
https://www.newsweek.com/campbells-soup-vp-mocks-poor-people-food-secret-recording-11097497

[John1956PA]

1. There is an old expression about high-ranking members of an organization who are in jeopardy of being fired.

The expression is, "Management is going to make soup out of them."

[Ponietz]

2. Information Security Officer

[progressoid]

3. He's not wrong about their product...

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If I wanted to make a recipe from 1972, I might get a can of campbells.
Or if I wanted a day's worth of sodium in two spoonfulls of soup that tastes like aluminium. Otherwise, I'll just make my own; thank you very much.

His drug fueled racist rant not-with-standing.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Interesting That They Taste Like Aluminum

Their cans are made of low carbon steel.
That's why the magnet from the can opener sticks to them.

[progressoid]

7. Yeah,

It's a rhetorical device. Doesn't sound the same with low carbon steel.



To be fair, my taste buds aren't sophisticated enough to know the difference between low carbon steel and aluminum anyway.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Aluminum probably doesn't taste like it used to. ...

Now that my mercury/copper/tin fillings have all been replaced by resin composite, they might react less to other metals.

I don't think I'll run the experiment just now ...

[orangecrush]

14. Cold water

From a 60s era aluminum canteen tastes pretty good

[BaronChocula]

16. Zing!

I always thought low carbon steel tasted like nickel-plated copper.

[Trueblue Texan]

8. Cream soups take about the same amount of time to make as heating a can of crap.

[diane in sf]

28. Saut an onion, open a box of organic low sodium stock, I usually use chicken, but beef or veg would do. Throw in your

veggie of choice, simmer until soft, stick an immersion blender in until it’s blended, add some cream. Adjust seasoning. I usually use miso for the salty component. You could put some garlic in the onion sauté, minced if you’re lazy. I would use butter, coconut, or olive oil to sauté, depending on your flavor preferences.

Campbell’s is a bunch of salt and cheap inflammatory vegetable oils.

[erronis]

5. Just like nobody with a brain in trump's regime will listen to rfkjr for health advice,

Or anyone else's pontifications.

The brainy ones know the product they push is deadly.

[John Coktosten]

6. Well fuck

I've eaten Campbell's soup my whole life. It did and still does taste better than any other soup to me from the store brand el-cheapo soup to the foo-foo fancy stuff. To me the gold standard was Campbell's. Dammit

🫤

[Demobrat]

12. It's the sodium that makes it taste good.

Not good enough to risk a stroke for, though.

[Disaffected]

19. Their condensed chicken noodle is the best canned available IMO.

I add preheated frozen mixed vegetables (discarding the lima beans) and vegetable cocktail instead of water. Add a little salsa sauce to taste - yummy.

I know it has a lot of sodium so I only have half a can per serving and have always cut down on sodium on other foods.

My BP is OK so I don't worry about it too much...

[IronLionZion]

22. Here's a review of canned soups if you want to check out alternatives

https://sporked.com/article/best-canned-soup/

Then there are always recipes to make it yourself from simple ingredients and broth.

[surrealAmerican]

9. bioengineered meat?

I thought that was still more expensive than the regular kind.

[hunter]

31. I think he misspoke. It seems like the Chicken McNugget kind of meat...

... mechanically separated and pressed into cubes.

That doesn't make what he said any better.

I don't know why we let sociopaths run the world.

[SamuelTheThird]

10. Cue Campbell's commercials with Tuxedos in them

[BaronChocula]

17. "Introducing Campbell's 'Elegance Selection'"

Choose between:
Cream of Caviarn't
Vichyswastika
and
Vietnamese Faux

[calimary]

18. Love these soup names!

“Cream of Caviarn’t”!

[BaronChocula]

30. Thx Calimary

[mr715]

38. This is brilliant. nt

[BaronChocula]

42. ...

[yellowcanine]

11. My uncle used to deliver farm fresh tomatoes

to a Campbell’s soup warehouse in Swedesboro, NJ in the 1960s. So back then they were using excellent ingredients. Don’t know about now but I still like their canned tomato soup.

[red dog 1]

15. I hope Mr. Garza wins his lawsuit and/or gets a healthy settlement amount from a jury trial, if it goes to trial.

How the hell did this A$$HOLE Martin Bally ever become Campbell's Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer?

NO SOUP FOR YOU, BALLY!

[rubbersole]

23. Most rich corporate types look down on the "underlings".

Kinda goes with the territory. Sure hope AI doesn't allow the board of directors to replace them with an algorithm to save money. The karma fairy is circling the top .1% like buzzards over a bear cub carcass in Central Park.

[BidenRocks]

20. Print out the statement

Take it and all Campbells products back to the store.

If this is true, we were being lied to by Campbells.

If false, their damage control stinks!

Either way, I have lost confidence in Campbells.

Mmm Mmm Bad!

[IronLionZion]

21. Just in time for winter soup season

Customers might decide against buying Campbell's soups for recipes like green bean casserole. There are many competitors.

I'll post the racist stuff he said about Indians. Enough DUers know I'm Indian.

The recording, which lasted longer than an hour and 15 minutes, included what Garza said was a "disgusting" rant alleged to be made by Bally about his coworkers: "F***ing Indians don’t know a f***ing thing," and "Like they couldn’t think for their f***ing selves," it said in part.

The recording also allegedly captured Bally admitting he came to work after consuming marijuana edibles.

Garza said the exchange left him feeling "pure disgust."

[Figarosmom]

35. Edibles are no excuse...nt

[IronLionZion]

36. It could be an excuse to fire him nt

[Sneederbunk]

24. An unorthodox sales approach. Mm, mm good.

[IbogaProject]

25. The main Campbell heir revoked his citizenship

He decided to move to Ireland to dodge our taxes, while still os ing a chunk of his family's american corporation.

[Boo1]

26. Sounds like Bally

is wading neck deep in MAHA.

Sounds like some of the crap they are always spouting about this or that in food.

[Enter stage left]

27. I personally like the Progresso savory Beef Barley Vegetable better than any of the Campbell's soups.

[Tree Lady]

33. Makes you wonder if they are doing the

Same thing. My husband eats those soups I told him about this.

I make a huge pot for myself of homemade soup twice a month and freeze in individual containers. I told him I would start doing for him too, before he liked the canned soups probably because of all the salt.

I told him I can add anything he wants but at least be real ingredients.

[KS Toronado]

29. Campbell's stock should be taking a nose dive

about right now, might be worth watching if you play the stock market.

[pansypoo53219]

32. i gave up campbell's years ago. i make way better soup. progresso smells bad.

i should make some potato soup. tho, was gonna make beef vegetable soup w/ no meat.

[Figarosmom]

34. I make my own soup

A may have a package of Lipton soup now and then.

But every week I make at least one pot of soup. This week I'm looking forward to making turkey soup. Maybe with currie, coconut milk and kale in half of it, giving me 2 soups for the week.

[malaise]

41. Ditto - I make chicken broth every two weeks

and freeze it. The only things in cans here are tomato paste and cat food😀😀

[Grokenstein]

37. But but buhhh but butt

I'm such an Old Fart I still remembered this golden oldie:

[dalton99a]

39. Martin Bally:

[malaise]

40. Ummm Ummmmm not good 😀

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/campbell-soup-lawsuit-9.6991398