to not 'get' soup

[GnomeDePlume]

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.

I am not stopping other people eating soup, I just dont get why people consider it worth the bother. However I do wonder if giving soup to people who are poorly is always the best idea (dilute, easily spilled)

If you are adding water to mushed up meat/vegetables then you are diluting them. Deny all you like but I have tasted the results!

To all those people who say the reason I dont like soup is because I havent had a good one (their recipe, their great-grandmother's, Uncle Bert's whatever) are absolutely right. I have tasted tinned soups, packet soups, homemade soups, thin soups, thick soups, lumpy soups, smooth soups. And I havent yet found one I like.

They are all wet!

Thanks, ginmakesitallok

I shall try that.

I love soup - if its homemade. By me mostly. Favourite here is parsnip &apple or broccoli & stilton.

Have yet to persuade the kids to like it though.

But it's no bother at all? (And it's so cheap to make) You're effectively keeping all the flavour of the veg etc in because you're eating the cooking liquor? I don't really consider soup a meal in itself and need a big chunk of buttered bread with it.

YANBU , I think soup is a bit boring to eat.

I often look at the yellow label stuff meat and veg and think of making a soup.. and I love most soups anyway.

Broccoli, stilton and bacon is my favourite.

I made prawn bisque as a starter for Easter Sunday, it was delicious, but rather a lot of work.

If you think soup is boring to eat, I wonder what you would consider exciting to eat? I find soup (or homemade, and some shop-bought) delicious, comforting, healthy and can be very filling.

But I do make soup like this:

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1813652/salmon-squash-and-prawn-laksa

and this

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4711/hot-and-sour-duck-noodle-soup-with-baby-pak-choi

and this

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/13149/fresh-and-light-chowder

and very simple ones like broccoli & cheese, pea soup or tomato soup are also delicious homemade with lovely bread and butter.

Thicken it up and I'll have it as spread in a sandwich.

It's the hot wetness I cant get. My DF loved soups and stews (especially with floury potatoes yickety yuck). We had these to eat a lot when I was growing up. A hot, hearty, soggy lunch, just what a teenager wants.

I have issues you know!

All soups are different, some are boring, some are not. OP is probably not making nice soup.

They are also the most excellent way to get DCs to eat vegetables. I made mine strongly tomato, which they liked, and they had no idea what else was in it.

YABU. Soup is fab!

I have homemade soup every lunch time. I make it in batches. All different types from healthy tomato based veggie to a delicious cream laden butternut squash soup.

I think soup is far from boring. I do purée most of mine however, chunks make me gag.

Gnomeduplume: "Is that supposed to convince me that soup is good?"

No, no, Just giving a possible explanation as to the origins

Personally, I'd prefer the soup to the pate for starters - wonder what Leo the Gourmet would do for a sweet...?

Tanith - DH thinks Leo would go straight to coffee and liqueurs

You aren't diluting the flavour of the veg OP, you are intensifying and concentrating the flavours even more.

I think you are probably just making crap soup

Well, it's not that for me, I just don't like the wetness. Soups with lots of food in like minestrone or Thai noodle types are fine, but pureed ones, no matter how flavoursome, really lack something for me.

I am not guilty of making bad soup because I am not guilty of making soup at all. I don?t think that I have ever made soup. I wouldn?t bother because I do not like soup.

And if you have added water and not boiled out all said water then you have diluted the food. The extra water does not add flavour. If you had stock then all you are adding is an extra salty/savoury homogeneity to the mess.

Why does it bother soup eaters that some people really don?t like soup? Is it so very strange to really not like soup? With all its diluted wet sloppiness?

See ginmakesitallok's earlier post: 'You're effectively keeping all the flavour of the veg etc in because you're eating the cooking liquor' If you normally boil/steam veg then throw away the water you are eating less of it than you do in a soup. What do you think stock is but boiled down and intensified meat and veg flavours? I don't mean stock cubes from a packet I mean proper chef's stock which have whole books dedicated to them and cuisines based on them.
OK so you don't like hot wet food. But only bad soup tastes 'diluted'.

The only time I eat soup is when I've been ill and then I'll eat Heinz tomato (total comfort food).
Otherwise no, especially if it's got bits in it or lumps.
Though I have made homemade leak and potato, which is nice but too much faff as it has to be smooth.

Ha ha it doesn't bother me at all, but it seems to bother you quite a bit

I Don't really get the soup lovers, but i also dont drink hot drinks, bar the occasional hot chocolate.

I now after many years will eat soup, but it has to be home made, But after the bread is gone i am pretty bored of it.

I had hot chicken from sainsburys for lunch, but have my own office, the eaters of smelly food in the office, should stop it.

I don't mind soup too much in the right place. The right place is at home or in a restaurant/cafe. I'd never choose it off a menu unless the other options were particularly rank.

The wrong place is heated in a microwave in an office when it smells of vomit.

I don't know why it doesn't smell of vomit at home.