Yoinked, for a couple of other sites I comment on.
I tried the Progresso counterpart — Rich and Hearty. I got Savory Beef Barley Vegetable. Well it was a soup. It didn’t taste metallic at least. But it was just normal, good soup.
The soup I make myself is actually rich and hearty. It will hold your spoon vertically. It frequently looks like mud, but tastes so much better.
I assume most people here have at sometime seen “The World at War.” But if you haven’t before, you should see some key episodes now, such as the first, for example. If you can’t get them any other way, someone put them all on YouTube, which is good, although they are at the wrong spect ratio.
Today my goal was to fix the nearly inedible. A taste of the remaining can of clam chowder confirmed it’s a problem across the board. However, I had these two options for seasoning:
The liquid hot sauce helped mask the problem somewhat, but the Hellmann’s sauce was a more complex blend of spices. I’m not a fan of mayonnaise, and don’t want to know what heating it probably does to the base ingredients. However, just a teaspoon was enough to fix an entire bowl of chowder. 
In the future, I’ll just buy the potato bacon flavor and a can of minced clams. Mixing the two should make a decent clam chowder substitute. My long-term plan is to revisit some recipes for one-pot meals to reduce sodium.
