Aren't we shunning Cadbury?

I'm not? Not sure if I should be, but basically not.

So of the commercially available stocks, which are people's favorites?

Are you looking to buy some stocks? I go through Sharebuilder. Their trade fees are pretty reasonable, relatively. I've been happy with Amazon, Wendy's, Wal*Mart (spit), and Micron Technology. (Look, I bought Wal*Mart stock a long time ago, before I knew they were evil, okay?) Don't buy Martha Stewart.

I thought we were bemoaning that Cadbury has been unfairly, uh, somethinged by Hershey. I will be sad if I have to shun Lindt, those truffles are delicious. But I will shun if they are evil.

I t heart John Oliver but I can't watch him 'til tomorrow.

Commercial stocks - I usually do Pacific or Imagine, I think. I go for all natural organic free-range etc. for a bunch of reasons, but I have not been disappointed in the taste. Not as good as my simmered for several days stock, of course, but not bad at all. And I prefer the low-sodium, otherwise they are too salty for my taste.

Also, there are still clean beach towels in the linen closet, hooray!

I think Connie means soup stock, in which case I like Swanson's low sodium over most generic brands, although in my own cooking I tend to just use the TJs concentrated chicken broth, which I water down to 2 cu to one package instead of 1:1.

commercially available stocks

I had no idea what -t was talking about! And apparently, I had no idea what Connie was talking about.

I was just assuming based on the previous conversation about making chicken noodle soup.

So of the commercially available stocks, which are people's favorites?

I like Pacific Organic. I actually use their French Onion soup as stock a lot. It's vegetarian, but it's got a ton of flavor and works really well with chicken.

If I didn't have shows, I'd never know about DST.

Sorry, Zen, chicken stock. I don't have the disposable income for investment stocks, though that's what my 401K is mostly in, to my unease. My company's stock is fairly robust, but that's my retirement, and I like things a little less volatile.

Swanson's is easily available in my "Organic? Isn't that the specialty aisles over by produce?" grocery stores.

Here's my quick-n-easy & healthy homemade chicken soup: 1 lb chicken breast, 4 c. water - put that in a stock pot or large sauce pan. Add a couple of bouillon cubes or spoonsful of "Better Than Bouillon" concentrate (small jars on the grocery shelf next to the bouillon), sage or poultry seasoning, garlic, onion powder or dried minced onion, pepper, any other seasoning that smells good to me that day, pinch of cinnamon (no seriously, this is necessary, it creates an incomparable richness, I got it from my Mennonite Community Cookbook). When the chicken is cooked, I pull it out and cut it into small bite-sized pieces. Put that back in the pot, add 3-4 (or more, and include the leaves) chopped stalks of celery, throw in a bag of frozen mixed veggies and a half a bag of okra, plus a bag of any other veggies you want, or a couple cans of green beans, cook till the veggies are tender. When I feel like taking more time over it, I sautee an onion with the celery before tossing it into the pot, and slice up fresh carrots instead of relying on the carrots from the mixed veg. From there, it's easy enough to add some leftover rice, or some noodles, or make dumplings. Or just eat it with crackers. Of course, for one person, you'll end up eating off this pot of soup for a week. If you don't want that much leftover, try making this with a couple chicken breast tenders, and halve everything else.