Heinz Is Selling ‘Christmas Dinner In A Can’ Again
Do you love the idea of a huge Christmas feast but don’t have the time, inclination, or culinary skills to make it happen? No worries. Heinz has it covered with the return of their Christmas dinner in a can!
According to Today, this unique creation from Heinz proved to be a fan favorite in 2021, so it’s back this holiday season. Heinz’ stress-free holiday meal is called the ‘Big Soup Christmas Dinner,’ and it comes with meat or in a vegan version.
Last year’s debut of 500 cans sold out online in just three hours, so this year, Heinz UK made 20,000 cans to be sold in Walmart-owned ASDA supermarkets. Unfortunately, they’re only available in Great Britain, so Americans will have to get them on eBay, where they previously sold like hotcakes. By the way, hotcakes are not one of the ingredients, but there’s a lot of other stuff in each can.
The meat version contains turkey breast, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, sprouts, cranberry sauce, pigs-in-blankets, and sage and onion stuffing balls. If Heinz ever decides to sell it in the U.S., they could even roll it out in November as ‘Bachelor Thanksgiving’ in a can. For the record, the British version of a pig-in-a-blanket is a little cocktail weenie wrapped in bacon rather than pastry. It’s a good thing, too, because the pastry would never hold up in a soup.
The vegan version of the ‘Big Soup’ consists of vegetables, vegan sausage and stuffing balls. In both cases, the reviewer, Heather Martin, seemed to get a strong Spaghetti-O’s vibe from the aroma of the “groth.” That’s her word for the gravy/broth which serves as the basis for the soup. You can read more of Ms. Martin’s impressions here, but they’re not exactly glowing.
We've put Christmas Dinner in a soup (again).
— Heinz (@HeinzUK) November 22, 2022
Which other meal do you think we could soup-ify? pic.twitter.com/b9suw4P7aJ