{"id":12413,"date":"2023-02-23T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=12413"},"modified":"2023-02-24T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T10:43:37","slug":"campbells-responds-to-bigot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=12413","title":{"rendered":"Campbells responds to bigot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One disadvantage of social media is it allows hard-of-thinking bigots a platform to express their prejudices.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>However, this might not always work to the advantage of the prejudiced, as the exchange below between a Tennessee redneck and Customer Service for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Campbell_Soup_Company\">Campbell Soup Company<\/a> re homophobia illustrates.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/campbells_homophobia-e1677156526322.jpg\" alt=\"Original post comments Your new commercial with the 2 dads makes me sick, whilst Campbells Customer Service replies Hi Kim! If you're feeling sick, we suggest a enjoying a delicious can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup. Make sure to enjoy it hot, so that it can help warm up your cold, dead heart.\" width=\"600\" height=\"679\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/campbells_homophobia-e1677156526322.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/02\/campbells_homophobia-e1677156526322-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicken_soup\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>, chicken soup &#8211; with or without noodles &#8211; &#8216;has long been touted as a form of folk medicine to treat symptoms of the common cold and related conditions. In 2000, scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Nebraska_Medical_Center\">University of Nebraska Medical Center<\/a> in Omaha studied the effect of chicken soup on the inflammatory response in vitro. They found that some components of the chicken soup inhibit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutrophil\">neutrophil<\/a> migration, which may have an anti-inflammatory effect that could hypothetically lead to temporary ease from symptoms of illness&#8217;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>No research has yet been conducted into the curative properties of chicken soup on prejudice and homophobia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>However, Campbells could be onto something. In the words of the French chef and culinary writer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auguste_Escoffier\">Auguste Escoffier<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Bon app\u00e9tit, bigot! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One disadvantage of social media is it allows hard-of-thinking bigots a platform to express their prejudices. However, this might not always work to the advantage of the prejudiced, as the exchange below between a Tennessee redneck and Customer Service for the Campbell Soup Company re homophobia illustrates. According to Wikipedia, chicken soup &#8211; with or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34],"tags":[36,25,22,35],"class_list":["post-12413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-food","tag-language","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12413"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12425,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions\/12425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}