Sneaky food

Today's rant is about food that gives a long description on the packet of its contents, and then proceeds to hit you with the overwhelming taste of something that hasn't been mentioned. Today, for example, I had a Sainsbury's Taste the Difference chicken soup. The blurb went on at great length about the happiness of the chickens, and the wonderfulness of the cream. When I came to eat it, the only thing it tasted of was onions. When I checked the ingredients, I saw that onions were the second ingredient, above cream (12 percent) and chicken (6 percent), but they weren't mentioned anywhere in the verbal description on the front. In "Taste the Difference chicken soup" presumably the said "difference" is that it doesn't taste of chicken.

I do actually like onions, so the soup was okay, but a few months ago I had some "chorizo and tomato" soup which was so thick with crunchy beans that I couldn't bear to eat it. Again, no mention of beans in its description. I've had the same happen with sandwiches, which have had a veritable essay on the front about their contents, but fail to mention the actual main ingredient.

Yes, yes, I know the moral of this story is that I should read the ingredients list, but they make it so hard, by listing every ingredient of every constituent part. I actually skimmed the ingredients of my chicken soup three times today before I even noticed that little word "onions" lurking there.