Over the years, the test kitchen has seen amazing products and appalling ones.
But never anything this bad.
Hanover's Clam Chowder Soup. The absolute worst thing we have ever tasted.
And we were wary to taste it. Fresh from the microwave, there's an oil slick on top. Even after you attack it with a spoon and stir repeatedly, an oil slick reforms when you stop stirring.
The taste is hideous.
Campbell's soup where you add a can of water to it tastes better than this supposed ready to serve, just heat soup.
It's awful. The texture's wrong and, again, there's the oil slick. It's like a little bit of the Exon Valdez is in every spoonful.
Avoid at all cost. The worst product we ever taken into the test kitchen.