If you're having a can of soup...

[SoupDragon]

... do you have a whole can or just half?

I've just noticed that a serving is half a can - Surely that isn't enough? I've been over indulging in soup for years!

@SoupDragon

Oh happy days - over 175 posts about soup portions. Complete with competitive undereating (lightheartedly, obviously) and grammar wars about can v tin.

😂

Bravo OP Bravo - a fine thread!!!

For lunch, normally half a can plus a roll and possibly a bag of crisps. For dinner in the evening, a whole can. If it's a big soup/chunky soup, nothing with it. If it's tomato, possibly a bit of toast with it.

This is my bowl. I can last a week on this and a crumb to dip.

Half a can but I add milk to it (cream of tomato) so it ends up more.

Some people eat only half a can

A whole can, usually with a couple of slices of bread.

The only person I know who doesn't eat a full can these days is my 7yo DD. She only manages 3/4 (no bread)

I do remember half a tin of cream of tomato soup with French stick as a Saturday lunch growing up. Followed by fruit and cake. Half a tin was enough of that...

Now I have a tin of vegetable soup with a a portion of cheese. Soup is only 150cal, cheese 90. I don't think that's an over indulgent lunch by most people standards.

@AdobeWanKenobi.
I live your bowl it would be great for my favourite lunch half a baked bean and a toast crumb.

Half a can but with bread. I get bored halfway through it.

Just had a HUGE bowl of parsnip and apple soup at local cafe. Yum!!!

If it doesn't all fit in the bowl then surely you eat some then put the rest in. It's hardly rocket science  Well yes....but that wasn't the point I was trying to make. Rather that a whole tin of soup is more than you would expect to eat in one sitting. Well it is in our house anyway. I am realising that we are in the minority

Eat it out of the saucepan

Assume this ^^ pp is referring to an 800ml catering tin. If not there’s real issues there with her only managing 100mls of soup at a meal time

Maybe she buys the tubs in the chilled section? They are bigger than tins.

I dare say I’d manage a full tin if I didn’t have bread, but tbh I find soup a bit boring without bread. I rarely even finish half a tin because once the bread has gone, I’m pretty much done. Soup is just flavouring for bread in my world. It’s not remotely because I have a wee bird-like appetite as I dare say I could stuff a loaf in, if unrestrained.

You should make chowder in a bread bowl.

@TheQueef

You crackpots that have half a can are same as the nutters who ask for half a cup of tea.

Worse - they're the ones who offer a whole one, but then present a normal person with half.

I was thinking this the other day OP. I have a whole can and often have two pieces of toast with it ( my standard WFH lunch). My parents often used to have soup and toast for their lunch and they would have half a can with one piece of toast each so I am literally having a double portion

@IHaveBrilloHair

You should make chowder in a bread bowl.

Is that to me? Because I’m a massive fan of Panera breadbowls when I’m in the US for work but I think if I had them regularly at home I’m be even fatter than lockdown has already made me!

@NaughtipussMaximus

Can you get a whole can down if you pretend it's a drink instead of an eat?

Yes it was @NaughtipussMaximus
I love it.

@Camomila

Assume this ^^ pp is referring to an 800ml catering tin. If not there’s real issues there with her only managing 100mls of soup at a meal time

Maybe she buys the tubs in the chilled section? They are bigger than tins.

Nope. Just the regular 400ml tins. Though "about a third" of one of those is more like 150ml by my calculation. And I've already said that I have a piece of bread too so its not only soup. I'm a short person, though a bit chubby. Its plenty for someone of my size who us going to have a cooked meal in the evening.

Surely the real question is when you buy a full sized tub of fresh soup do you have half or the whole lot? As a can is obviously for one person, unless just as a small palate refresher on the side of many slices of cheese and huge hunks of bread.

So a carrier for half a loaf of bread and a full packet of cheese if you will

Usually about 3/4 so I tend to waste a bit.

All of this talk of tomato soup has brought back a childhood memory. My Mum made condensed tomato soup with milk. It was delicious on a wintery day with a grilled cheese sandwich.

Horror of all horrors followed when we had a babysitter for a few days when our parents went away. We thought she was the worst old hag ever (for many reasons, but mostly because our Mum was a big softie, and this lady was half drill sergeant). She made tomato soup with WATER!! We were traumatized I tell you, absolutely traumatized. And she made us eat it.

[quote Eckhart]@NaughtipussMaximus

Can you get a whole can down if you pretend it's a drink instead of an eat?[/quote]
I could drink that amount of water. I wouldn’t drink that much soup because I’m not that into soup. Like I said, I get bored of it. I am physically capable of drinking so much soup, though.

@MrsAvocet That looks like one of the soup bowls my parents had bought in the early 60s when portions were a lot smaller .

Normally when you go to a restaurant your soup is a starter so you would expect less