Tradition’s taste disappointingly untraditional
Tradition Foods, Inc., probably distributes the vast majority of kosher instant soups. The concept is simple — peel open the lid, add hot water, let sit a few minutes, and enjoy your quick sodium-laden mini-meal.
Unfortunately, the soups stink.
In this case, I have plenty of pre-kosher experience to support my opinion. Both Maruchan Ramen and Nissin Foods offer simple and inexpensive noodle/soup meals which are quite tasty (though also loaded with sodium).
The Tradition soups, while competing handily in terms of convenience, never get it quite right in terms of taste. Today, on a lark, I tried the “Tradition Low Fat Hot & Sour Instant Noodle Soup.” Well, it’s certainly not hot, it’s only sour in that it tastes rancid, and it’s absolutely nothing like the “hot & sour” soup commonly found at a Chinese restaurant.
In the opinion of this critic, the only “tradition” here is the legacy of bad taste these products leave behind. Zing!
The ‘chicken’ version is a lot better than the other ones. Try it with just the tiniest touch of schug!
There’s been a marked decline in the quality of Tradition soups.
If you can still find one of the old ones
(it’s the older packaging if the styrofoam cup
is wrapped in plastic) try that one and compare.
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ay away from the mac and cheese though!
I’ve gotta disagree with you there. Those soups are the fuel for my life. They easily match any instant competitor, Kosher or trayfe alike.
I don’t know about mac and cheese and that sour stuff, I am hooked on Instant noodle soups EXCEPT if Tradition would only heed the sodium concern I would be in 8th heaven. I don’t think the soups would suffer much if the sodium content would be drastically reduced - call it Tradition Instant Noodle Soup - Lite. I hope Tradition reads this and pays attention to the sodium concern. Thanks GG