Meat in soup: Is it wrong,or is it just me?

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I made soup the other day,and added chicken to it because I had a family member visiting who likes meat with everything. I'm having some now and it's horrid.

I love fish and shellfish based soups,but meat be it chicken,beef or ham just doesn't belong in soup imho.

Apparently,according to family member,this makes me odd and 'everyone' puts meat in all of their soups.

So,is it just me?

Meat is perfectly good in soups and broths. Pea and Ham is a classic. But if you're making Chicken and Vegetable Soup, for example, you can't just make vegetable soup, lob some chicken in as an afterthought & expect it to taste OK.

Can't eat seafood, but I don't put meat in all of my soups; carrot and coriander would be weird with any sort od meat! Or cream of onion... Or leek and potato... Then again, I do use a ham stock for lentil.

I'm with you!

I'm glad I'm not alone,Mummyingnome. It just doesn't seem right.

The chicken wasn't an afterthought,though I realise saying I added chicken to it,makes it sound like that.It was based around the chicken,and the stock it created,only because of fussy family member.

Everyone else liked it,and while it didn't taste bad as such,chicken in any sort of soup just doesn't work for me. I think it's partly a texture thing. I have sensory issues.

I don't mind a small amount of bacon in watercress soup or a small amount of ham in pea and ham but apart from that I don't like meat in soup. I don't like chicken/beef/lamb in soup.

My parents used to but mince in veg soup - it was vile.

you are so right. I have my own personal campaign against meat soup but now I find kindred spirits! Chicken soup is vile beyond belief whatever Jewish mothers say about it.

I can bear a small amount of ham or bacon in a pea and ham or minestrone type soup but otherwise, it is totally against the law of me.