Aside from the occasional beer cheese variety I really don’t eat soup too often. It’s not that I dislike soup, it’s more that I’m just not a fan of the soup eating process. It’s SO slow…. If it was socially acceptable to treat soup like the leftover milk in the bottom of a cereal bowl and just life the bowl up to my mouth and drink it I’d be all over it, but as it is I’m just way too impatient.
Luckily, while checking out the back of one of the cans of Kickin’ Buffalo-Style Chicken soup that Campbell’s sent me recently I noticed that they suggest serving it over cornbread, so that’s how I decided to try it.
Taste-wise the soup tastes just like a Buffalo style sauce and has chunks of chicken, potatoes, celery and red peppers. Eaten by the spoonful it was definitely kickin’ and was almost even a little too spicy for me, although I’m a total wuss when it comes to anything even remotely spicy. Over cornbread though I liked it a lot more. It was definitely one of the more filling soups I’ve eaten.
I’d also be willing to bet that if you mixed this soup with some cream cheese you could make some pretty delicious Buffalo chicken dip. Maybe I’ll try that with the one can I have left. Oh yeah, and if you want to make awesome cornbread at home try using half cornbread mix and half yellow cake mix. You can thank me later….
“Bowl”? You’re doing it wrong. Soup is designed to be drunk out of the tin.
Thanks for your suggestions on adding cream cheese and for your corn bread adaptation.
I doctor up all canned soups with a variation of diced tomatoes, olive oil, herbs, or a dash of cumin, depending on the soup. I find it vastly improves edibility.
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This soup smells like vomit/baby poo. If you can’t tell that from the first 30 seconds, you are a campbells shill. Worst soup ever. Threw 100% of it away plus the other can in my cupboard. (and I wanted to like it so bad)
dude, Austin, you are so right . i immediately gagged and even then i thought “maybe it will be better after microwaving it” boy was i wrong the most disgusting food ive ever ate with the most horrific smell know to man. literally smells like vomit! I am not kidding buy one your self. I dare you. after microwaving we had to cover our noses with our shirts and pour it down the drain. lost my appetite and pretty much puked. tried to eat the buffalo wings that we made but barely could stomach them after that smell. Jesus please dont eat this. I have no idea how Campbells let this product on store shelves. i never write comments and i instantly googled this soup to see what people had said. im warning you this is a mistake. if you like this soup i will think less of you as a person.
Dude, I totally agree. Why?????? Terrible soup. How can we ban this soup? I have eaten other Campbell’s Chunky but this one was straight out of the can bad. I first thought maybe its just me. Microwaved, still smelled funky, wait a little, maybe if I don’t breathe and taste it, taste…eww tasted the vomit smell in my mouth…blah….
Agreed. I accidentally grabbled this off the shelf thinking it was Chipotle. The color is nuclear and while it wasn’t horrible, buffalo sauce should not be the basis for a soup. I finished because I didn’t want to waste it but I would never buy it again.
why is it the color of french dressing? also yes i noticed the vile vomit smell too. managed one bite. never again!!!!!!
My son and I both decided that we couldn’t bear to eat even a spoonful of this baby shit smelling rotten vomit embryonic pig urine.
Wow. Epic fail from the ol’ soupsters.
I only wish I had found this site BEFORE my family and I tried to eat this stuff. From the moment I opened the can I knew something was wrong. Like others I hoped that heating would improve it but the ghastly miasma that emanated from the pot on the stove actually made the burned popcorn odor from earlier in the evening smell pleasant. Holding onto the last vestige of hope, we each tried a spoon full and then nearly trampled each other getting to the sink to dispose of it. Giving this to a food pantry should be a criminal offense.
The only way to mitigate the smell was for me to make popcorn. I don’t even like popcorn.
Lord Save Us from this Unholy Turd of a Soup!
I am not sure HOW Campbells got this soup thru to store shelves, unless they used test subject that did not posses a sense of smell. This soup has an odor that induces nausea. The taste is no where close to that tasty bar food that the name implies. Throw it out!! (We did.) Do not donate this soup to a food pantry, that would be considered a criminal offense. I would hope that the Campbells “test subjects” are well compensated! Campbells should take the whole lot to an otolaryngologist because they obviously need help!.
This might be the worst soup ever made. Worse than anything with mushrooms in it. How it was given anything more than a “unfavorable” rating is beyond me.
Honestly, mine didn’t smell terrible like most of yours seemed to. I think they sent me the cans of it before it was actually in stores, so maybe something changed between then and when they started selling it or maybe the older the cans get the worse the soup smells or something, but if mine was that terrible I never would have eaten it.
I smelled this and I wanted to die. I ate this and I almost did. Don’t do drugs and don’t do campbell’s kickin buffalo style chicken soup.
Looks and feels like diarrhea when pouring it out of the can. Made me feel physically ill handling at eating it.
Well i haven’t tried it yet but maybe it would be good in a pot pie.
I want my $3.00 back. My “soup” contained NO chicken (perhaps my can was defective in addition to disgusting) but rather consisted of stringy vegetable bits drowning in a sea of buffalo sauce the consistency of spit. Absolutely FOUL.
I see there are so many haters of this soup. I happen to love it. Don’t throw away your spare cans, I will be GLAD to take them!
Fuck you Karen! If I were stranded in an inescapable location and were given a revolver with one round and this can of soup, I can assure you the can of soup would remain untouched. Vomit is the only word that comes to mind. Seriously, I’ve smelled enough of it in my life to know the absolute difference between vomit and soup. This “Kickin Style” however isn’t so clear. How in the hell did they even get this on the shelves? You’re guess is as good as mine.
It had to have been a bad batch. The stench had us opening the windows and putting on the overhead fan in December. I bought it because my hubs is from Buffalo New York and I thought it would bless him. Even though the stench alarmed us he still tried it.
Only one spoonful had him trying not to vomit and made his stomach sore to the actual touch. He said it felt like an internal bruise. I got him the pepto and it helped. However, he did hit the toilet pretty hard from the “other end”. We did call Campbell’s and are very surprised they have not recalled that lot number. Our concern is people who are older, with a very tight budget, may force themselves to eat it ~ or go hungry and they will probably get very sick,in our opinion, as one spoonful affected Tom the rest of the day/night.
We posted our experience and found that many, many people had similar BAD experiences. So, because our review was “thumbs down” and our comments factual but humorous ~ our friends BOUGHT it to see if it was awful. The two that tried it, one in Florida and the other in Michigan said they liked it and had no problems.
I think one of the batches they made had bad milk products in it. As it permeated the house with the lasting putrid smell of regurgitated sour milk and baby diarrhea.
I’m glad you at least know some other people who got a normal batch, because I was starting to think I was crazy for actually liking it when every other person leaving a comment was just mentioning how disgusting it was.
My one friend, Susie, opened it almost like you would open a can where the coiled up fun toy launches out. She waited for the horrible odor that we experienced and it did not reek. Next, she bravely tried it and found it to be good. We have concluded, that those of us who had the cans that smelled like soiled diapers, must have had a bad batch.
Glad you had a pleasant experience.
Opened up a can of this for the first time tonight hoping for a delicious soup only to find that it smelled a little funny out of the can. I figured maybe it smells off when it’s cold…heating it surely will make it smell better? Put it on a pot in the kitchen and when I came back to check on it my kitchen smelled of vomit and death. I didn’t even attempt to try it because I was afraid of throwing up in my kitchen. Worst soup ever. I hesitate to eat things out of cans as it is, now I’m going to avoid Campbell’s. I’m afraid of getting sick. Something was wrong with the soup.
I was afraid to try this soup at first,but after i did,it is the only soup i buy! love the sauce,chicken and potatoes,i can’t get enough. Just don’t buy it assuming its something you won’t like,really savour it. mmmm ;3
tasted like throw-up. Felt badly about throwing it away but it was HORRIBLE.
I’m glad you liked it – I like it too, and for the calories per serving, it’s really filling.
People on Amazon hate it – http://www.amazon.com/Campbells-Chunky-Buffalo-Chicken-18-8-Ounce/product-reviews/B008GZ1CEO/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Whoa! Those reviews are terrible, ha ha ha.
No one likes the person who heats up seafood at work and stinks the place up. This was even worse. I work in a hospital and the whole unit smelled as if I didn’t clean any of my 8 patients. It’s hard to get by the smell long enough to try it.
this soup seriously tastes like vomit. DON’T BUY IT, IT’S GROSS.
I just made some of this stuff, and I was prepared to really like it, I really was. But the thing is the stuff has a very distinct smell of vomit. I wasn’t sure right away and I took a second wiff and another taste and sure enough, the stuff smells and tastes slightly like pukc. It also looks strikingly similar to throw-up, something which I am usually ok with. I have eaten many things that were delicious despite their passing resemblance to barf, but it can’t both look *and* smell like the stuff.
I mean, come on.
After making this soup last night and tasting it the first thing I did was run to google and search “campbells kickin buffalo vomit” and found many pages on the subject. This stuff is absolutely putrid. I would not even feed it to my dog. Campbells should be ashamed or at least rename it to Vomit Stew. STAY AWAY unless you like the taste and smell of puke.
elephant seal toe-cheese. i had to do a cross wind and burn candles in my house for 2 days. campbells also includes now elephant carrot in all of their soups which basically is a carrot that is genetically engineered to grow into a size of a vacuum cleaner. it tastes like an old reebok.
This is the worst soup I have ever tasted. Smelled horrible and tasted even worse. Vomit is the best word to describe it.
I smelled the soup in the can after opening it and was already disgusted. After cooking it, it didn’t get any better. Managed to get a piece of chicken and a potato before flushing it down the toilet.
This is the most foul smelling thing I have ever smelled in my life. My wife and I both smelled it upon opening the can. I thought after cooking it would smell and taste fine. OMG was I wrong. I immediately tossed this unedible garbage away then puked all over my kitchen.
im eating this right now and it smells/ has an after taste of tuna. what the hell man, its one of the worst soups i have ever had and also has a slight taste as if you just threw up milk and buffalo sauce. disgusting.
Just threw the “Vomit Soup” away. Smells just like it when I popped off the lid. I double checked the expiration date to make sure it wasn’t old as I had just bought it recently. Nope. Expiration date is next year.
The appearance and consistency is that of neon orange chunky diarrhea. So, it not only smells terrible, it looks terrible.
I burned my microwave popcorn on purpose to cover up the vomit-y smell in my office.
I wish I had been as fortunate as the majority of posters on this site. Today, I decided to try the soup that at one time I was actually looking forward to. Campbell’s usually pulls off everything they sell and I figured this would be different. I opted to go with just soup, no cornbread. As I finished my bowl I did make a mental note that it seemed a little bitter, but didn’t think much of it.
8 hours later when I decided to get ready for bed, I noticed some extreme rumbles followed by a severe stomach pain. Immediately I knew the soup was the culprit. Sure enough after about 1 hour of sleep I awoke to the feeling of regurgitation. I almost didn’t make it to the bathroom! I am about 99% sure I vomited the entire can back into the toilet. Now the disgusting part, it looks the exact same as it did in the can! Yuck! I won’t be buying anymore canned soups after this awful experience.
Just had round 2 ugh.
Just read this. We actually reviewed this on our site:
http://whydidieatthis.com/2012/10/down-the-aisle-campbells-chunky-kickin-buffalo-style-chicken-soup/
and frankly our experience was terribly negative. Like you, Campbell’s sent us the soup directly, so we didn’t get it from the store and likely got it from the same batch you got.
You can see from the link I posted that we thought it tasted like hot cat puke and looked even worse. I’m honestly having troubling fathoming how anyone could not think this is bad. It’s terrible.