Campbell's fires executive who was recorded saying company's products are for 'poor people'

[Zorro]

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

The Campbell’s Co. said Wednesday it has fired an executive who was recorded making racist comments and mocking the company’s products and customers.

Martin Bally, a vice president in Campbell’s information security department, was named in a lawsuit filed last week by Robert Garza, a former Campbell’s employee who said he was fired Jan. 30 after he reported Bally’s comments to a supervisor.

The lawsuit was filed in Michigan, where both Garza and Bally live. Campbell’s is based in Camden, New Jersey.

In the lawsuit, Garza claimed he met with Bally in November 2024 to discuss his salary. During the meeting, which Garza allegedly recorded, Bally described Campbell’s as “highly process(ed) food” and said it was for “poor people.”

Read more: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/26/campbells-executive-fired/

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Looks like someone FAFO'ed.

[Xipe Totec]

1. At least he'll have Campbell's soup to live on now. nt

[2MuchNoise]

2. LOL. Your comment is mm mm good!

[Jack Valentino]

13. Yeah, maybe he'll be eating it soon!

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Your post reminds me of when I was in court, fighting for my client.

We were fighting to prevent her parental rights from being terminated. Her five children were in foster care in an upper middle class household while she was below lower middle class.

And her kids preferred the benefits of swimming lessons, heated car seats, lots of toys that the foster parents provided. And the foster parents desperately wanted to adopt all five of them.

So when it was time for the kids to testify to the Judge about the alleged abuse and neglect they sustained at the hands of their mother, soup was brought up. Yes, soup.

The nine year old daughter boldly propounded that her mother neglected her by the mere provision of canned soup. The Judge wanted to hear more. The soup was perfectly edible as it came directly from the can into the saucepan and into a bowl. But the daughter really wanted to stay with the foster family, so she really laid it on. Her foster mother made soup from scratch. Low sodium, low fat, and delicious.

I sat at the table, thinking WTF. THAT'S neglect? Then there's a whole bunch of kids being neglected in America.

Fortunately, the Judge wasn't buying what the daughter was selling as essentially, that's all she had to use.

So, to have the CEO of Campbell's make such statements, about the stuff that gives him his bread-and-butter, makes me roll my eyes all over again.

[anciano]

4. Love canned soups! ......

for me they are a quick and easy affordable meal.

[mwb970]

11. Me too!

I had Campbell's Tomato Bisque earlier today. And I'm not even poor!

[anciano]

12. Muy delicioso! 👍

[MarineCombatEngineer]

17. There's nothing like Campbell's Tomato Soup and a toasted cheese sandwich on a cold winter night.

[Harker]

5. Fired from the "information security department."

[Zorro]

6. He got canned!

[PSPS]

8. You win the internet today

[Harker]

10. And creamed!

[lastlib]

7. Well, the racism is one thing; BUT---

we can't have the employees telling the truth about the product, now, can we?

(is this ? )

[Aussie105]

9. His crime? Saying the quiet part out loud!

Canned soup really is the pits, and that applies to any brand.

The image of 'good stuff in a can' doesn't match reality.

Yes, I've tried some. When I was poor.

[kimbutgar]

14. I'm sure he'll be hired by the orange piggy administration to work for snap

[SouthBayDem]

15. This was an AP article. Link without the paywall:

https://apnews.com/article/campbells-lawsuit-chicken-fired-poor-people-bioengineered-f3822ce2d7e8ac4e5c832e6f98ba459d

[Aussie105]

16. Seriously, I'm interested.

One TikTok poster calls himself 'grimthingsintins' and tries out a wide range of things in tins.
Then rates them for grimness on a scale of 0 to 10.

He never gets to try soups though.

Are there soups out there that are actually ok to eat, taste and nutrition wise? Any brand!