to not 'get' soup

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Who looks at a bag of meat/vegetables and thinks 'what these need is pureeing then diluting'?

Am back working in an office again and surrounded by the sounds and smells of soup consumption.

I had forgotten how bad it is.

Soup is great.

Eating hot food in an office is intolerable.

I love love love soup. Home made is the best though!

Come on guys, get blending :)

Good job I like soup, as thanks to my dentist that is all I can manage for a few days!

I have chicken bones in my SC atm ready for a nice soup tomorrow. YABU!

What's not to like about soup?

1. It's wet. Savoury food should be consumed with knife & fork or fingers. It should not be possible or necessary to consume savoury food with a spoon or straw.

I disagree that savoury food needs to be solid. What about people who have difficulties in handling cutlery due to injury or illness? Would you rather people starved?

1. It's diluted food, my tastebuds are robust enough to be able to handle food without watering it down

There are plenty of tasty soups, with lots of flavour. From your comment I can only make the assumption you have never had a decent soup

1. It smells

All food smells. Some of it far worse than others

I've recently bought the Covent Garden recipe book. 365 lovely soup recipes!

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

Good grief 365 different ways to spoil food!

Soup is magic diet food. Because it's mush, your body can't absorb it so quickly so you feel full for longer. Rather be full of donuts for shorter mind.

What else can you make that is so delicious using just an onion, celery, carrot and a potato and some stock?

Now tinned soup's another matter, the very idea of eating tinned soup makes me heave. Bleurgh.

Eurghhhh tinned soup is vile and so salty, except tomato soup.

I love a good soup, but am very very picky about flavours:
Good: French Onion, Broccoli and Stilton, Minted Lamb broth
Bad: Chicken bleurgh, plain tomato, leek and potato

I mainly see soup as the perfect excuse to have lashings of Lurpak on white bread though

I love soup- have one cooking as we speak. Was almost glad weather so bad as it calls for a soup. Best things about soup is its healthy, kids love it, easy to make ? I love at the kids are havng lovely veg and enjoying it. I just love it!,.. May be I should get out more??

Valiumredhead - a tasty rosti. Give the celery and stock away.

My thoughts on soup (diverse).

Heinz Cream of Tomato used to be nice but now it's far too sweet and with a really odd aftertaste. They've ruined it.

Time and a place for these things, I had a wisdom tooth out yesterday so I very much enjoying a mashed beef stew and a carton of supermarket soup today Actually I can't grin like that at the moment it's more like this

I made a brilliant pumpkin soup last year with sherry, crusty bread and butter - delicious.

Today I had carrot and chorizo soup. Twas marvelous and non stinky. The only shame is that these days I try to avoid the bread and butter that should naturally accompany it.

Sob.

I am not that keen on soup either

I fear though that I wouldn't have made a very good Victorian street urchin popping along to the jolly soup kitchen every day.

'No gruel for me today thank you generous benefactor I had gruel yesterday.

'Gruel'

'How about French Onion soup with a cheesy crouton?'

'Gruel'

'Blue cheese and brocolli?'

'Gruel'

'I think I'll take myself along to the local gin house instead'

Mmm, gin, now there's a good idea.

Unlike soup. Which is yuck. But I don't really know how to make it properly, so I'll stick with stew, which is practically the same thing anyway :)

YANBU at all. I hate soup so much and the smell in the office when people have it is horrible! I don't understand the whole diluted, pureed idea.

Well if you put a really good stock in a soup it will taste nice, if you fry onions it will bring out the flavours more.

I love soup especially home made

I like fried onions, why spoil them with salty, savoury water?

No, I'm not all that keen either. Don't mind it once in a while, but very much take it or leave it. I certainly couldn't eat it for lunch all the time. I like food that needs chewing.

Who looks at a bag of meat/vegetables and thinks 'what these need is pureeing then diluting'?

What people my cook looks at is left-overs, vegetable stalks, bones etc. and thinks "what these need is turning into soup because that is the best way of making something delicious out of these unpromising ingredients".

I've just made spinach lentil and coconut soup - it is yum! and DD1 has eaten a full bowl of it and asked me to make it when her friend comes over on friday. Now if that's not a sign of good soup I don't know what it.