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.

YABU, soup is the food of Gods!

OP, I read somewhere that all carnivores eat soup. That's why a lion will start with the stomach of its prey first - it's tucking into a nice soup of partly digested vegetation and digestive juices before moving onto the steak main course

Yes tinkertonk it's kitchen alchemy!

Mmmm Tanith, stomach soup. I'm going to phone Pret's development hotline and tell them that one :)

spinach lentil and coconut soup

Sounds wonderful: recipe?

YANBU if you are referring to shop-bought soups. Most of them are nasty. Even a lot of the 'posh' ones like Covent Garden Soup Co are meh.

Home made soups, however, can be delicious and full of flavour if made properly. Not like a 'watered down' meal at all. After making my own soups for years, tinned soup tastes disgusting. (Apart from Heinz Cream of Tomato which is lovely with a stack of cheese on toast when I'm feeling poorly!)

YANBU!

I totally don't get soup either. If you put a roast dinner in a blender, added half a pint of water and blitzed it, then served it up, that would be disgusting.

So why do it to other food??

I love homemade soup; I make a lovely potato and leek one that we have once a week or so, it's a great way to get veg into the kids (and into DH!)

I've never made stilton and brocolli soup but after seeing it mentioned in this thread I want to make it now!

Spinach, lentil and coconut soup

Lightly fry an onion and a couple of cloves of garlic, add a finely diced potato and a good handful of red lentils - fry for couple of minutes. Melt a chunk (no idea about weight! - about a lush shampoo bar size1) of creamed coconut with a couple of veggir stock cubes in a litre of water. Add water to onions etc. Simmer for 15 mins. Add spinach (about half a bag) and simmer for further 5 mins. Whizz up. Bob's yer Uncle. (DP suggests adding a chilli)

I'll try that spinachy lentil one, thanks

Hmmmm...soooup. yum

I can tolerate it but it's not my first choice. I had my jaws broken in an operation and could only consume a liquid diet, which put me off soup after only eating soup for ages.

Tanith was that supposed to convince me that soup is good?

Any road up I'm fairly sure that the average lion would prefer the pate as a starter!

Just finished big bowl of homemade leek and potato with some crusty bread and a piece of Wensleydale cheese followed by English strawberries and ice cream-yum!

I love soup made by me.

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.

Yes of course it's wet. Not everybody likes to eat dry food all the time. The fact that it is wet makes it easier to digest and easier to eat - especially for people who don't make enough saliva or have problems with swallowing

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

It shouldn't be diluted. You have obviously never eaten good soup. Soup isn't just a meal that has been pulverised with extra water.

1. It smells

So does all hot food

YABVU. Our canteen at work make the most awesome, flavourful soups and so do I . There's nothing as warming as a bowl of hot soup on a cold wet day like today.

I make great soup, I like soup, but I can't get excited about it either.
It's soup.
I need something great with it, to find it a decent meal.
The last one I made was parsnip and ginger, I also made carrot houmous and home-made flatbreads.
I'm making broccoli and stilton next week, but also venison liver pate.

I do always have lentil soup in the freezer, it's comforting when I'm not well, but still, just soup.

Ouch! Aribura.

Oh, and I always have in tins of value tomato soup.
DD loves it

Love it and a healthy option.

I love soup. Except tinned soup. I don't understand why anyone buys tinned soup. How on earth do they make it taste quite so vile? I assume it's the preservatives?

I love soup.

I would also love it if someone posted a lovely onion soup recipe as mine never turns out right

i love a good home made soup, but it has to be a nice chunky one like a minestrone or lentil and bacon. no to blending.

YABU. Granted some soup is crap but I make soup from scratch and it is delicious. Today I made Prawn Bisque and last week I made Sweet Potato and Parsnip. Delicious with home made bread.

I had some lovely soup for lunch today. Then I needed a pasta salad and a bar of chocolate