Not fond of cooked tomatoes as the main ingredient in anything other than creamed tomato soup, and confess a fondness for Campell's canned tomato soup/bisque with grilled cheese sandwiches.

I'm a little younger than Joe, but don't ever remember there being many soups labeled Heinz on the grocery shelf where I grew up or where I have lived - all south of the Mason-Dixon line.

If a little thread drift may be allowed - Snow's Clam Chowder used to be great. My ex-husband told of working at a clam shack/seafood restaurant on Cape Cod in the 1960's that was famous for their clam chowder, which patrons assumed to be restaurant made. One of his prime jobs was to bag and keep concealed the Snow's cans from whence the chowder came. Not easy to find in stores in many places, then or now. But they have been bought out by Bumble Bee, have changed the recipe, and it simply is no better than any other canned New England clam chowder any more.

*sniff*