What, it amazes you that people would drink dried soup after reconstituting it? That's a pretty common product to find on supermarket shelves. I also don't see any indication that Keurig has anything to do with it, it's Campbell's and Green Mountain who are making the product.

What exactly is your displeasure with this product?

Green Mountain owns Keurig.

I agree, there's no reason to put soup mix in a K-cup, because you don't need the normally included filter. It's expensive and wasteful. However, it's probably a great idea for both Keurig and Campbells to cash in on the huge install-base of these machines.

> my coffee will now start randomly tasting like artificial chicken flavor

Don't forget coffee flavored chicken!

i don't get the objection. from an engineering standpoint, the keurig machine seems to be a way to mix hot water with the contents of a packet to make a single cup of hot drink. it should be relatively easy to see to it that the flavours of the various packets don't contaminate each other, shouldn't it?

It's not perfect. The bottom and top of the cup are punctured, and the forced water tends to splatter a bit inside of the cup receptacle. Mine always has a few grounds, and the surfaces all have some residual coffee. The water doesn't run directly out of the bottom of the cup where it's been punctured, otherwise, you'd get grounds in your drink. Instead, it runs along a channel down into your cup, another place for residual flavor. Of course I clean it from time to time, but I don't do a ton of different flavors. The cleaning to get chicken broth or tomato soup out would be too much to switch back and forth.

At my office they have fruity tea options and I can tell you that the flavour gets into the coffee if someone previously brewed such teas. I don't want to imagine what a coffee brewed after one of this soups would taste like.

I wonder about the noodles. How will that work?

The article says you put the noodles and dried chicken in the cup first, from a different package.

Damn it. Reading. I fail at it.