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If you were on a dessert island and you could choose one tin of soup to take with you what would it be?

― Dave, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer cheese.

― Tom, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheese soup?

Surely they don't make that, I suppose you have got Stilton and Brocolli but I can't say I have heard of any others.

― Dave, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when i had my mystery illness 2 years ago, i found a lot of food difficult to eat, soup was one of the worst. today, i baulk at soup, psychosomatic bizness come wid it!

― gareth, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Even that Japanese noodle soup?

― Dave, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

lifeboat and hand-mirror soup
OR
tomato

― Alan T, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Leek and potato.

― RickyT, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mulagatawny.

― Pete, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god I dont know, I love soup. Probably Chinese Chicken and Sweetcorn or Crabmeat and Sweetcorn with its delightful mucous like texture.

― Ronan, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If I were on a dessert island I would have no need of soup as I could stuff myself with profiteroles, trifle, pavlova, icecream etc. instead.

― Emma, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Hurrah, someone made use of the very poor joke I tried to shoehorn in last week).

― Pete, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes but wd there be cheesecake on yr dessert island?

― mark s, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Noooooooooooooooooooo! None at all.

― Emma, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And Pete I was not using 'your' joke, it was just a pretty obv gag given the typo / whatever in the question.

― Emma, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I posted it to myself last week = I haf copyright.

― Pete, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear. How much do I owe you?

― Emma, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

French onion

― Anna, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hope you are on your own on the island Anna, you will have terrible onion breath. The thing is most desert islands are hot so I'd want a cold soup e.g. gazpacho. But if this is one of those pesky cold desert islands I'd have my auntie's chicken soup. Mmmmmmm.

― Emma, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

red bean soup (japanese)

― nathalie, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But I always carry a toothbrush so I will be fine.

― Anna, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

French onion soup = a good thing.

Hrm, what would I pick? *thinks* A really good tomato soup, probably.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do Bloody Marys count as soup?

― Ronan, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Depends on the quality of the vodka.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

look Dave, if i'm going to adopt a last initial you are too. it's only fair.

― Dave M., Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One tin wouldn't last me very long, and would not be my very first priority item. And you fail to inform us as to whether we have bread to tear up and drop into it, as we classy types do.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well it wouldn't much matter would it, since not even the combined brain power of a philosopher, an engineer, and an economist could open it sans can opener.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Good idea Dave M but unfortunately my intial is M as well, any suggestions?

― Dave, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

L for lightning.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Obv. the best soup is Heinz Cream of Tomato.

Oh, but you've not tasted the Soups of the World!

You do get cheese soup and it's lovely. French, I believe. A little bridge of pesto laid across it, pine kernels. Yummm...

Also, a nice Italian Bean Soup.

OR Cullen Skink.

― david h(owie), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

are we allowed to make our own? cos i don't like can soup. i like my pumpkin and peanut butter soup, the recipe of which i stole from angeline. man its so good i'm gonna make some tonight.

― queenoftheharpies, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dessert Island? Doesn't that mean all of the soups need to be sweet? Or desert island...meaning lots of barren land and whatnot? Because if it were a dessert island...then I would have to go with the Chinese red bean soup with tapioca balls...preferably cold though, instead of its normal hot. As far as regular soup goes...man, I think some type of minestrone would have to suffice, although I am not too keen on it. It just seems like it would be the "right" nutritious choice.

― jen, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.campbellsoup.ca/en/images/common/cans/can_lg_3.jpg

― Ron, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(that's for tom, i would not choose it myself)

― Ron, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...
soupppppppppp

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 17 November 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I just had some.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 17 November 2002 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

what kind was it

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 17 November 2002 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Some sort of tomato-vegetable-pasta thing. I only just woke up. That was breakfast, I have no real breakfast food.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 17 November 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmmmm...I made chicken soup today...mmmm...

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Def. vegetarian vegetable soup. I think there is even some nutritional value to it!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 November 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Chinese Chicken Noodle soup from the local take away (I wonder what the delviery charge would be?)failing that Knorr Chicken Noodle (which incidentally is a great hangover cure)

― Plinky (Plinky), Monday, 18 November 2002 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

soup that does not otherwise contain meat but is made with chicken/pork/beef/turkey/seafood stock really pisses me off. how necessary is it to render the heads/limbs/bones/organs/shells/hooves/horns/tails of various creatures and then just go ahead and make broccolli soup with the stock?

note to vegetarians soup connoisseurs: just because you wouldn't consider eating a soup that contains boiled cow heads' residue to be vegetarian, the person who is serving you (or detailing its ingredients to you) might. blech!

soup stock horror stories, anyone?

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 18 November 2002 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm... Not soup, but one time this lady brought in green beans to work for everyone as part of a buffet. When I didn't eat any she exclaimed, "But, Sarah! They're vegetables! What DO you eat??" I acknowledged that though they are veggies, it was full of ham chunks. She was totally disgusted with me and said, "You mean you're so picky that you won't even eat something cooked with meat??" I was in a really bad mood that day so I replied, "If you were served green beans with dead cat in it would you just pick the dead cat meat out?" Needless to say, she never talked to me again. I must confess that was pretty immature of me, but I couldn't stand her suggesting that my being vegetarian was simply being picky and it made me feel better to let it out.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

smoked cat or unsmoked cat ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...
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― A TIN OF SOUP, Monday, 13 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...
REVIVE

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 8 December 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

im over my psychosomatic soup distress now

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate soup

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I favour bean soups. My own special is lima and chervil. But my friends all oath soup, especially pea soup, a personal favourite. My beloved and my daughter favour pumpkin soup. I do not hate pumpkin, yet neither do I delight in it.

Thai hot and sour soups also rock. As does pho and laksa. If they qualify as soups, I'm not sure.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

caldo verde owns here, it's blooming gorgeous. I mean what's not to like about mashed potato soup with spicy sausage and kale?

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

All your friends oath soup, Colin? Some kinda weird cult goin' on dere? ;)

Soup is food of the gods. Anything can be rent to soup. Cook it, moosh it - ITS SOUP!

I lub pumpkin soup with a touch of curry, cumin, tomato. Or a good heart lentil numbah with veggies in winter.

In summer soup is poo. Tho those cold berry soups the Scandanavians make like Blaubersoppen (sp) are pretty nice.

Hello Im drunk!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yes Trayce I would agree - I don't eat soup in summer. But if I was on a desert island i would be starving and not caring what season it was and would plump for the oxtail. My guess is that it is the highest protein soup.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I would take winter warmer vegetable soup that I make myself, mmmmm. Though Safeway honey roasted vegetables soup comes close.

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

curried parsnip soup is more num than it sounds.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Curried parsnips... hmmm, I never thought of that. Actually, it's a good idea, since it's so hard to get pumpkins for pumpkin curry over here!

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

celery

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Potato.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

in the past week i've eaten turkey gumbo, corn chowder, and "oriental flavor" ramen. now i want tomato soup.

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

cock a leekie

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I've found out I don't like miso soup that much, which surprised me for some reason. But I'm having some damn good ramen at the moment and the mention of caldo verde above has me thinking I may make it over the holiday. Not sure I can find kale, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, shit, right now I really like tomato-based veg soups, spicier-than-fuck black bean soup, miso soup w/ mushrooms, cream of asparagus soup, any sort of chowdah, and I totally am craving curried pumpkin soup now, thanks Trayce!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Does New England style clam chowder count?

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

That depends, do you eat it with a fork or with your fingers?

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

one. two. three. four.

― new england style clam chowder (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep,

What kind of broth did you get with your ramen?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I LOVE vegetable soup - add as many vegetables as possible! Also, big hunks of potato are U&K.

7 Bean soup - also yum.

AND pasta italiano soup.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Seven beans, not enough!

― HULK LIKE SOUP (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Eleventeen bean soup!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

INFINITY bean soup!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://bitsoup.de/soups/images/ramyun.jpg

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.skylight-circus-arts.org.uk/tpack/tppics/B2.JPG

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

actually the best soup in the world is my zuppa di pesce but fuck that nonsense that takes too long to cook up when I can just heat up some fucking potato soup already. God I'm hungry.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I really like those Healthy Valley vegetarian cuposoups like Pasta Italiano, Couscous and lentil, and Zesty Black Bean, and the BIG SOUPS like Miso with Tofu. Other than that, I'm not that big on soup. I don't usually find it fulfilling.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Those are actually some of the best cup o' soups you could ever find.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

corn and potato and cheese and green chile chowder.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Small #12 pho from Pho 75 in Rockville, MD. Greatest lunch EVER!

― quincie, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.timb0.freeservers.com/soup.jpg
"No soup for you!"

― sorry, i had to do it (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

nickalicious entrails boullabaisse

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

onion and sweet potato miso is liquid joy.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

What kind of broth did you get with your ramen?

Soy saucey and scalliony -- it was the, um, I don't know a lot about ramen, but the thicker, kind of chewy noodles you get with the $2.00 ramen as opposed to the thin 4/$1 noodles. Came with dried fried tofu.

My ex was (is still, probably) obsessed with the one Tom just posted a pic of.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I could really use some potato soup right now, but the only kind I like is the homemade kind and it would take too long to make.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i had covent garden co chicken soup and to be honest it was disappointing and i preferred the sainsburys own one

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep, Savoyy cabbage works almost as well as Kale in Caldo Verde if you can find that any easier.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

TOMBOT OTFM RE: Shin Ramen.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 10 December 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
on a can of campbell's cream of mushroom with garlic:

USE BY DATE ON CAN END

of course the date can end, but can time end?

I have never been thrown into existential crisis by a misreading of directions like that.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 16 January 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

also, this stuff has goat milk in it!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 16 January 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

if you pack shin ramen with you to a desert island i think it would be wise to also pack a lot of water.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 16 January 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

hey hey im just cooking up some leek and stilton soup. the cookbook guy is like, jus use old bits of blue cheese, but wtf? idiot have "old bitss of blue cheese" hanging around. so i had to buy some fuckin stilton, get me?

i hope i dont fukk it up

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 16 January 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to make soup tonight. what is a good, thick soup without meat in it? daal soup? i don't know!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 16 January 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ambrose as I understand it blue cheese never goes off exactly, it just gets stronger/more intense. so, if you have any left over don't throw it away and hey presto, you're a hoarding old nutcase.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 January 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

caitline you could ask Pete if he has anything hidden in his armpits that he could get rid of.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 January 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

THAT'S DISGUSTING. how about a three bean soup.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 16 January 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You're not very hungry I take it

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 January 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

oh caitlin I have a lovely recipe for corn and cheddar cheese chowder, it's quite thick and filling.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 16 January 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't find the exact recipe, but it's a little like this:

dice three large russet potatoes, put in a big pot, fill pot with water until top is about an inch above the potatos, add some sage and a couple of bay leaves and some salt and pepper, boil until they start to get a little tender.

meanwhile chop up an onion and sautee it in a stick of butter until just transparent. add a cup of flour slowly and make sure it's well cooked! keep tasting it, you'll know when all the flour is cooked. then add oh I dunno, a pint of half-and-half. Add this mixture to the potato pot.

add maybe two cups of frozen corn kernels or even better, slice kernels off of two or three ears of fresh corn.

stir in a cup of grated sharp cheddar slowly, make sure your pot isn't so hot that it curdles.

Correct seasoning, add a few dashes of nutmeg, yummo.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 16 January 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

yo tracer i was alludign to the fact that i cant afford to buy any blue cheese in the first place, let alone have a variety of 'em sitting about in the firdge. i dotn throw anything away ever though ,certainly not chees.e if theres mould, cut it off! even if there is that mould that is sort of like a root or something and goes thru it (not talking bout blue cheese obv) then i dont care, if i cant see it, i dotn care. and i dont really ccare even if i can see it.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah with blue cheese the mold is just like more blue cheese. one hunk of blue cheese, properly neglected, could last one family a lifetime.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Teeny, that sounds great. Very thick, right?

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks a bunch teeny, i'm not in the mood for corn, but i will definitely save it.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

im waiting for the day my housemate chucks my massive block of parmesan out of the fridge (costing $$$$) cos it "must have gone off by now" or some shit

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

i think i've had soup every day this (past) week

― get bent, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

i wonder how ambrose's cheese vigil ended.

― estela, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

Vegetable soup all the time.

We made our own last night, yummmmm.

― Ste, Monday, 11 February 2008 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

am i the only person who likes cold soup straight from the can?

― latebloomer, Monday, 11 February 2008 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

i think campbell's tomato soup brought me back from the dead last weekend

― sunny successor, Monday, 11 February 2008 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://oglobo.globo.com/blogs/arquivos_upload/2007/10/159_2042-joelsoup.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 11 February 2008 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

awww...Lou!

― sunny successor, Monday, 11 February 2008 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

For staying power, I'd go with vegetable-beef-barley soup. Not canned, but homemade. There's many a soup I enjoy, but they would pall on me sooner.

― Aimless, Monday, 11 February 2008 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

i am, at this moment, making soup from leftover roast: chicken stock plus chopped up carrot, onion, swede and chicken with some pearl barley thrown in. bit of cayenne, black pepper and salt and bob's yer uncle. i love soup.

― or something, Monday, 11 February 2008 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sisterray.co.uk/images/canege.jpg

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 11 February 2008 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Soup's always easy, cheap, yum. Throw everything you have in a pot all Miles Davis, say a magic incantation and filling hearty yum for three days ENSUES.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

a sweet angel from heaven is bringing me chicken soup for dinner.

― get bent, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

vegetable soup WITH POTATOS is very good. i'm also a huge fan of yankee bean soups/three bean soups/whatever bean. with the white beans. good stuff.

also lentil in general is amazing. not to mention black bean, beef barley and TOMATO/tomato bisque.

but i think maybe my favorite soup is italian wedding bell soup. i mean that's too great.

― Surmounter, Sunday, 9 March 2008 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Soup with toasted, buttered bagel = awesome.

― Bodrick III, Sunday, 9 March 2008 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and if I had to pick one soup to take with me it would be Baxter's pea and ham.

― Bodrick III, Sunday, 9 March 2008 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

YES. YES. or cream cheese, actually. soup and a bagel is like my favorite lunch.

the lesser explored combination which is also amazing is bagel and a salad.

― Surmounter, Sunday, 9 March 2008 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Last night was a split pea with yam and bean soup from the good folks at Avanti, plus some foccaccia. I was a happy soul.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 March 2008 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

i think soup more than most food items really penetrates the soul. foccaccia!! love it. they always give me a piece at La Bagel when i order a soup.

― Surmounter, Sunday, 9 March 2008 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

tonight i made potato-leek soup. it's good. (turns out to involve surprisingly little other than potatoes and leeks.) with a hunk of bread and a beer, that was dinner.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 06:45 (seventeen years ago)

Feeling under the weather this week so breaking into my frozen soup stash is hitting the soup. Last night pear-zucchini, not sure about tonight yet.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

i had awesome potato-leek soup (with salmon, seafood and chives) for lunch

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.alivenotdead.com/attachments/2008/06/53907_200806282303024351.jpg

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

horrible flashbacks from that picture

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

for the masochistic college freshmen

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

best ramen ever

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 20:31 (seventeen years ago)

I'm not sure that kind of ramen was around when I was in college, and if it had been, I'd probably have considered it way too fancy to purchase -- that's the one that comes in its own non-foam bowl, right?

― nabisco, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

In any case, for desert-island purposes, I would consider a nice hearty lentil soup.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

yeah nabisco I'm the guy that loves really fucking fancy ramen. Me.

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 20:51 (seventeen years ago)

sometimes I walk to the korean grocery store just to buy one or two of those

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

never been a fan of cracking an egg in it tho

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

Haha Tom I'm just remembering the point where I first bought that kind of ramen and felt like I was keeping it a step classier than before. Which was grad school, I think. I think of it as grad-school ramen, for the poverty-stricken student who is older and has slightly higher expectations. (And a less stable digestive system.)

― nabisco, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:03 (seventeen years ago)

lol postgraduate ramen

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

Get your MBA in 6 Months with NONG SHIM's executive programs

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:09 (seventeen years ago)

I think Lipton makes a particularly fancy form of "I got some grant money" ramen

― nabisco, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

It's for TAs to eat in front of their undergrads to make them jealous

― nabisco, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.liptonnoodlesoup.com/images/ExtraNoodle_nut.jpg

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

sarah decided she wanted to make a bunch of new soups this winter so we are running a soup bracket. so far white bean & escarole has beaten red lentil, and peanut & sweet potato has beaten kale & chickpea. gingered carrot has not yet been matched up with a competitor.

― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

this is an actual bracket, on the side of our fridge

― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

potato-leek
pumpkin and/or butternut squash (and apple?)

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

soups without noodles or cheese are some lame ass soups

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

i made pumpkin & acorn squash curry soup last week. it was pretty good. peanut & sweet potato sounds fantastic. minestrone's the best though, it's classic.

― Maria, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

I would choose the one on E!

― Bella Swan Song (Susan), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 23:30 (seventeen years ago)

Anyone had the kosher chicken soup special edition of Max Tundra's new album?

http://assets1.pitchforkmedia.com/images/original/146374.maxtundrasoup.jpg

― krakow, Thursday, 20 November 2008 10:12 (seventeen years ago)

If some person came up to me, right now, with a bowl of extremely hot, largely brothy soup, I would cry in gratitude, and my loving soup would swallow the tears and grow in response for further consolance.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 21 November 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

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― ＡＳＣＩＩ ＮＥＤ (libcrypt), Saturday, 29 November 2008 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

I just made a batch of potato/butternut squash/sweet potato/cheese soup that I completely forgot to add paprika or bay leaf to, but it still turned out absolutely delicious. I don't always enjoy my own cooking because I possess more enthusiasm than talent, but this was some fucking soup.

― calzino, Saturday, 12 November 2016 14:15 (nine years ago)

My latest was a pureed cauliflower soup. Before that was a butternut/delicata squash soup with coconut milk and Thai red curry paste that I perhaps overdid.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 12 November 2016 14:42 (nine years ago)

Broccoli soup up next I think.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 12 November 2016 14:43 (nine years ago)

I think I will be going for Potato/Leek/Celery combo next, not doing the tomato and basil recipe for a while - peeling and deseeding one and a half kilos of tomatoes is way messy and time consuming, as nice as the result was.

― calzino, Saturday, 12 November 2016 14:49 (nine years ago)

Split pea and ham last night, made with smoked turkey stock.

― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Saturday, 12 November 2016 15:35 (nine years ago)

soup is magical

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 12 November 2016 18:14 (nine years ago)

^^^ OTM

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 12 November 2016 21:57 (nine years ago)

I notice a lot of pea soup recipes just use plain old frozen garden peas, it seems a bit savage but I have a surplus of frozen peas that need using so I'll give it a try next week. It will probably be very nice with some spinach and kale.

― calzino, Saturday, 12 November 2016 22:17 (nine years ago)

pea soup is a simple classic that may be the single simplest soup to prepare. and frozen peas are wonderful - picked and frozen at peak of freshness. will be quite different from a split pea-style soup though. they're different kinds of peas

― Bandol soleil for the St. Tropez tan (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 12 November 2016 23:40 (nine years ago)

go black beans soaking now that will be turned into (a half-pureed) soup tomorrow. need to pick up cilantro

― Bandol soleil for the St. Tropez tan (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 12 November 2016 23:42 (nine years ago)

that sounds like the ticket.

― calzino, Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:05 (nine years ago)

I have loads of black eyed beans in my dry stores, need to start using 'em.

― calzino, Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:11 (nine years ago)

five months pass...

I'm going to make some green lentils/potatoes/celery/onion/aubergine soup tomorrow for the first time. Let's see how it goes. For a start I'm going fry some cumin and fennel seeds in butter and see how it goes from there!

― calzino, Thursday, 11 May 2017 21:47 (nine years ago)

I am glad this thread moved on from the OP about tinned soup. Homemade soup is dead easy and x10 better.

― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 11 May 2017 22:46 (nine years ago)

You can experiment so much with soup, without being a grand master chef. Any combination of what is left in the veg stores with some stock and seasoning is often surprisingly good.

― calzino, Thursday, 11 May 2017 22:58 (nine years ago)

not feelin that cumin man but go with god and follow yr muse etc

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Friday, 12 May 2017 00:18 (nine years ago)

soup is god

― brimstead, Friday, 12 May 2017 00:28 (nine years ago)

nine months pass...

faced with an empty fridge barring half a white cabbage, a couple of celery stalks and one red/green jalapeno. I whipped up a soup with some potatoes, cumin, butter and mung dal beans. the bare necessities have delivered bigtime today, that was freaking perfect!

― calzino, Friday, 16 February 2018 12:06 (eight years ago)

Any combination of what is left in the veg stores with some stock and seasoning is often surprisingly good.

otm, it's pretty hard to make a bad soup ime

last time i was scouring the cupboards for random ingredients i ended up making a half-soup/half-stew curried chickpea thing which used leftover mascarpone instead of coconut milk to give it a creamy texture and it was fkn rad

― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 February 2018 13:51 (eight years ago)

Never been a big fan of soup, but since going vegan it has rapidly climbed the list of my favourite foods.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 16 February 2018 16:40 (eight years ago)

I find chick-peas, borlotti beans, butter beans and stuff like that adds a beautiful texture to soups.

― calzino, Friday, 16 February 2018 16:45 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

my current fave is potato/leek/broccoli cooked with some white stilton and milk with the stock, garnished with spring onions and only slightly boiled sliced greens 👍

― calzino, Sunday, 4 October 2020 12:14 (five years ago)

nice. I've just made potato and leek, with a secret ingredient of leftover roast parsnip.

― kinder, Sunday, 4 October 2020 12:15 (five years ago)

Made a cracking butternut squash with creme fraiche the other day.

― chap, Sunday, 4 October 2020 12:45 (five years ago)

soup is good food

― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 4 October 2020 16:41 (five years ago)

My partner's got a weird thing about not wanting to eat soup for dinner which is a bit annoying.

― chap, Sunday, 4 October 2020 17:12 (five years ago)

Thai Tom Yum (hot & sour) soup concentrate is the best thing since miso, maybe better. Most brands are vegan. I usually simmer oyster mushrooms, tofu, green onions in it and top with fresh basil, but more trad shrimp or chicken are also options.

― Sanpaku, Sunday, 4 October 2020 17:51 (five years ago)

yeaahhh potato leek is the bomb

― brimstead, Sunday, 4 October 2020 18:29 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Split yellow pea soup with some pearl barley + green peas, seasoned with dil. mama mia!

― calzino, Monday, 16 November 2020 11:39 (five years ago)

Are you trying to hurt me or what

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 November 2020 11:53 (five years ago)

I make huge pots of lentil and stuff soup. Usual ingredients include red lentils, diced swede, diced potato, carrots, onion, leek and either veggie or ham stock plus whatever random veggies I spot that aren't going in anything else soon. Wee bit of ground white pepper as I cook and a wee bit of black pepper as I serve. I cook the carrots whole then fish them out and liquidise them and stir them back in for a nice colour.

I usually make enough for 10 big bowls so it does a family of 5 twice.

Soup is the best.

― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Monday, 16 November 2020 11:57 (five years ago)

I miss my mum's home made pea soup. She was taught how to make it by her granny, so the recipe probably goes back to the Edwardian era, but is no doubt older than that.

― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Monday, 16 November 2020 12:04 (five years ago)

All my soups basically start with sauteing some onions/celery/carrots and then work with whatever I've got from there onwards.

― calzino, Monday, 16 November 2020 12:10 (five years ago)

In butter if possible

― calzino, Monday, 16 November 2020 12:11 (five years ago)

i made some really good white bean soup the other day. chick peas, butterbeans, cannellini beans. basically using the calzino method. blended it all and mixed some sour cream through it.

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 November 2020 12:17 (five years ago)

Yeah sour cream goes well with just about all soups. When I haven't got any sometimes milk and grated cheese is the next best.

― calzino, Monday, 16 November 2020 12:28 (five years ago)

I was listening to a woman on the radio whose Chinese mother taught her the art of making classic Beef Pho and she was waxing lyrical about the splendours of it. I've never got round to making pho because it seems quite time consuming but some day I'm going to have a go.

― calzino, Monday, 16 November 2020 13:10 (five years ago)


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