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Recession's Arrival Confirmed By Weird, Confusing "Canned Soup War"

By Meg Marco October 16, 2008

Reader Michael noticed these weird, soup-bashing ads in some Detroit-area newspapers yesterday. It seems that Progresso and Campbell’s have launched some negative campaign ads — smearing each other for using MSG in their soup. Is the world ready for a canned soup war? If it is, should we be depressed about it?

GALLERY


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