To think that Soup is a meal?

[StrawberryTraveller]

As in a decent, homemade Minestone soup we are planning to eat tonight

I was merrily chopping ingredients for dinner tonight, when my mother facetime called us.

Mother: oh sorry, didn't mean to disturb you
Me: thats fine, im only chopping ingredients for dinner tonight
Mother: ooh what are you having?
Me: Minestone soup
Mother: what? soup? for dinner?
Me: erm yep, why not? we like Minestone soup
Mother: (still gobsmacked) what, all of you?

And so on and so on for about 5 minutes. Its a Jamie Oliver recipe, with lots of vegetables in, bacon, harricot beans, and pasta. Hearty, and filling after a day of diy and walking.

If I had called it Minestrone casserole, containing the same ingredients, im sure she would have declared in a marvellous idea. Its just because it contained the word 'soup'

So, is 'soup' dinner for you also?

Looks lovely to me!

We had a spicy noodle soup for dinner, the other night, with loads of veg and slices of the most mouthwateringly tender rare sirloin steak that I'd picked up marked down to 1/4 price in the coop! It was absobloodylutely delicious and just what dh needed for the cold he was nursing.

That’s a great way to make a steak do more than one person.

Sounds delicious, OP.

@littlechocolatepumkins

@micromanaged your soup looks suspiciously stew-like

And it looks suspiciously like the picture of micromanaged's stew soup, and also @saltypeanut 's 'recipe' are both taken straight off the internet.

One of my favourite quick meals is Heinz Tomato soup with grated cheese and stale sourdough bread cubes in it. Plenty of ground pepper too. Very filling!

it looks suspiciously like the picture of micromanaged's stew soup, and also @saltypeanut 's 'recipe' are both taken straight off the internet

how very dare you. Made by my own fair hand.

And "pottage" was the default diet for the majority of poor/working people for hundreds of years.

But that really isn’t relevant now, is it? Death by smallpox before the age of 40 was also the default for many people for many years. Guess what - scientists still worked to develop a vaccine.

YANBU homemade soup is a perfectly respectable meal. Can be light or heavy depending on the type of soup and amount of bread.

MicroManaged Looks homemade to me.

This maybe my terrible eyesight or I'm hallucinating but in the picture at the bottom in the middle I see a gold face.

Of course it's relevant, since the thread is about cultural attitudes to food and people's perceptions of what constitutes an adequate meal. Hundreds of years of association between a certain diet and a certain socio-economic status naturally affect the way people feel about it.

There's a pretty glaring false equivalence going on with the smallpox analogy. I'll leave you to puzzle it out.

It is not off the internet. It is inspired by my mother who taught it to me before she died thirty years ago before the internet existed. So insulting.

I think soup is a meal.I can't have it as a starter as I find it filling.

Yes. And I think that’s what we will have for dinner tomorrow. Some gorgeous crusty fresh bread with soup. Yum!

Hope you enjoyed your meal!

There’s a soup sort of dish we cook at home during the winter, or when we used to be hard up. It’s one thing I remember my mum making us once a year or so. Used to be enough to feed the family for a week.

It’s not fresh or particularly healthy, we make it in a big quantity and it becomes lunch and dinner until we run out a few days later.

Minced beef,
3 onions
2 tins of whole carrots,
A pack of potatoes, chop the onions and potatoes into large chunks, and add 2 tins of tomato soup, 2 tins of oxtail soup, 2 tins of water. Let it cook as long as you can.

Sort of a favourite with a couple of bits of bread. I used to get through 3-4 bowls of the stuff. Now it’s more like one and a couple of slices of bread!

We have soup as a main meal, with fresh crusty bread.

penguinsetpandas

Never noticed that before but now the face is all I can see 🙈

Obviously I love my DH, but the one thing that makes me want to stab him in the face is when he declares something ‘not a Proper Dinner’. (The annoying disapproving way he says it makes it sounds like it’s capitalised.)

‘Soup’s not a Proper Dinner.’ ‘Eggs aren’t a Proper Dinner.’

A ‘Proper Dinner’ must in his eyes contain carbohydrate (pasta or potatoes), veg and meat. And then be smothered in cheese.

Anyway, your soup sounds lovely, and also I find that having a reasonably light dinner a few times a week (soup/eggs) is really useful for managing my weight.

In the grand scheme of things, who gives a shit really

There's a pretty glaring false equivalence going on with the smallpox analogy. I'll leave you to puzzle it out.

What a patronising cow.

It’s still just soup though, isn’t it? Soup, soup and a bit more soup. If you’re lucky, an extra portion of soup

I'm not the one sneering at someone's dinner for not being a proper meal.

Unreconstituted snob.

‘Sneering’? It’s just an opinion - on a thread that specifically asks for opinions. Should we all just stay silent?

Not unless you can't tolerate being disagreed with.

What can’t I tolerate? You’re just being rude and patronising - and are now desperately trying to justify it.

I think you'll find you slung the first personal insult....of the entire thread, actually. I opined that there is an element of snobbery in the attitude to soup as not a proper meal, because of its history as a "poor" diet. You responded with a spurious analogy, which I challenged. You became personally insulting.