The Smelly Reason You Might Want To Leave One Aldi Soup On The Shelves - Tasting Table

"You eat with your eyes and your nose as much as your mouth, so a soup that smells rotten before you taste it is not going to encourage you to want to give it a try. We mentioned the soup in a list of cheap products from Aldi you want to avoid, noting that it smelled like dishwater and had an unpleasant consistency. Some people have even reported finding hard, wood-like chunks of broccoli. But the negative feedback doesn't stop there."

"One Redditor called it disgusting and said the broccoli had the consistency of straw. Commenters agreed that it tasted like dishwater. Another said it tasted like cream of mushroom soup with stringy broccoli, and others reported the same. A third Reddit user referred to it as probably the worst thing they had ever bought from Aldi, claiming it tasted like chemicals but not broccoli or cheese."

Aldi's Specially Selected Slow Cooked Broccoli and Cheddar soup has drawn extensive consumer criticism for taste, smell, texture, and seasoning. Multiple consumers described a chemical or dishwater-like flavor and a rotten aroma that deters consumption. Reports include hard, wood-like broccoli pieces, straw-like or stringy broccoli texture, and comparisons to powdered or cream-of-mushroom styles rather than slow-cooked soup. Several comments labeled the product among the worst purchased from the store and suggested the soup is overly salty. Online community reactions amplified the negative assessments and questioned the product's quality and preparation.

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