to lie about tinned soup?

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I am quite a foodie. DH really appreciates this. Last night I fed him a tin of Baxter's tinned 'winter vegetable' soup. He paid me great compliments. I have just bought a can of soup at the garage that cost £1.19 (much more than Tesco) and he can have that tonight. He can have that tonight. Should I stop taking the credit at some point? I know it is a lie, but I am thinking about all the free time I could have.

He didn't know it was tinned.

How does he not know? The vegetables are all cut to standard sizes in soup and they all have that (lovely) synthetic taste.
Do you think he does know and is bluffing you?

When you sell him Heinz tomato soup as your own, then I'll be impressed...

He's a keeper

Well your doing well if your DH would have soup for dinner two days in a row....my Dp wouldn't!
You can tell tinned soup...it has a certain taste doesn't it?

eww. Tinned soup is vile. Looks like vomit.

It's hard to believe someone can't tell if they are used to home made.
I think the taste of the tin, the uniform size of the pieces, that certain gloopiness,and the recycling bin are all dead giveaways.

They are all cut the same! and it tastes of tin...hmmm

I could imagine passing off a covent garden soup or somehting..but not sure about baxters

Some foodie.

I would be insulted if my DH didn't spot tinned soup v my soup, but then I'm precious that way

Well done you! DH knows he's lucky if I ever cook for him (since I work longer hours than he does and do 90% of the child-care bits) so certainly has no opinion about what I cook! (Or none that he dares to share anyway.)

He is a keeper. Is there a tinned taste? He is so used to quality cooking that he wouldn't know. His mum didn't cook so I guess he is fairly ignorant. I haven't fed him tinned soup two nights in a row. But I have a tin of 'Baxter's favourite Minestone' ready for tonight. Not even luxury, or finest, just £1.19 from the garage.

@Zing, I get irate if he orders soup in any out of house outlet because I know mine is better.

Irrationally. Fergie ordered pea soup for £12 before she met the fake sheik. That annoyed me. Pea soup!

Is it well done me? Thanks for responses. I had thought this one would die a slow deadthread death.

With nice bread, and olive oil. But still tinned soup, which does free up some time. I do't think I will tell him yet.

I had never opened a tin of soup before and it sort of glooped into the saucepan. In fact I tried one tin and it looked like the whole thing would come out in a solid cylinder, so I binned it. Tried the next and it was the same so I served it. I suppose this is normal? Is it, for tinned soup?

I knew someone who worked in a tinned soup factory and they told me they peed in it. Don't care if it an urban myth or not but I wouldn't eat it.

I used to pass of macintoshes macaroni cheese as my own,I'd put it in an ovenproof dish,grate some cheese over it and warm it up,never failed and hubby would tell pals about my great cooking.

hystericalmum re "Tinned soup is vile. Looks like vomit"

I was watching one of those behind the scenes 'making of' programmes recently about another tv programme (I can't remember which one) and they said that when a character is required to vom on camera, they give them tinned vegetable soup, which they keep in their mouth and then spit out on cue.

I haven't been able to eat tinned soup since

Maybe he can tell the difference and prefers the tinned .

I am still laughing at 'never opened a tin of soup before'

baxters soup is yum though.for tinned it is smashing

It depends on the soup whether it comes out in a gloopy cylinder or not. Condensed soup would; others not so much.

The main problem I find is tinned soup's usually too salty, but there's no reason why it automatically has to taste crap.

One of the worst soups I ever had was homemade vegetable soup using stock lovingly made from an organic chicken carcass. It should have been gorgeous; it was actually vile (I will try again though). But there are two or three kinds of tinned soup I have regularly that are nice. I do tend to go for the ones with cream in more than others though.

I can't see why a Covent Garden one would be easier to pass off as homemade - the contents aren't specially different in looks (nor I find necessarily nicer) than lots of tinned soups.

@ Z. I have opened a can of soup before, but not for decades. I have a fond teenage memory of opening a can of Heinz tomato soup and heating it in a saucepan with a canful of water (as advised on the label) and eating it with toast and tons of butter. I can smell it now. The peeing in the soup put me off. The reason that I don't feel too guilty is that I want him to know that same pleasure, but he can't if he knows it comes in a potential pisscan. Wish I were innocent of this. That is why I am a foodie. He thinks he is but clearly is either polite or can't tell soup from canned.

It is beyond question that homemade soup is cheaper than either canned, powdered (DREAD TO THINK_} or those silly cartons.

MDS, is it really meant to come out like that? I have recently bought a little Kenwood mixer, and before that I just chopped, so he wouldn't notice texture.

Maybe I fed him condensed soup?

definitely condensed soup, then.

normaly soup is not a block, but soup-like.

I don't understand why you are feeding him soup.

1. what are you eating?
2. is he not capable of attending to his own needs if he is eating later/separately to you?
3. why would you eat soup 2 nights in a row when you consider yourself a foodie, unless you were unwell, or had made something delicious yourself?