Soup

equalsql

Cullen Skink is amazing. Not the overpriced tinned rubbish that Baxters sell, which is way too salty, but proper homemade. I was visiting the Cairngorms the first time I tried it. Food of the gods.

Sassafras

Shark fin soup and bird's nest soup.

Both sound revolting.

BillDL

I can't be bothered making soup from scratch and have instead just found a few cans and cartons / plastic containers of really good soup from a couple of places after trial and error that, in my opinion, are almost indistinguishable from home made versions of the same.  I really should make my own soup from scratch as I have no excuse and all the time in the world to go shopping and cook it since I stopped working, and I have my Mum's quite well used large Morphy Richards soup maker in one of my kitchen cupboards where it's been lying unused for over a year.  She used it regularly to make some really good fresh mushroom and similar soups and it's very easy to use.

Kilgore

Gazpacho.

Heat it up obviously. There's no need to be all 'continental' about it.

BillDL

I sometimes drink cold soup from a can, but it has to be the smoother type like cream of mushroom rather than stringy Aldi French Onion soup or soup with big chunks of potato.  This is very uncouth I realise, but I don't really give a shit.

Philly_Q

I'm not sure why I'm following this thread.  Morbid curiosity I guess.

I don't like any tomato-based foods (although I like fresh tomatoes), I don't like anything creamy and I don't like anything pureed or liquidised.  The only soups I can stand are ones with chunky bits, or watery ones like Scotch Broth or Spring Vegetable.

Rob1742

A little soup fact I remember which I am not sure is the case these days, but in the 80’s Irelands sales came from the packets rather than the tins. Tinned soup just wasn’t a thing in Ireland.

With the change to chilled over the years I wonder how the market has gone over there 

Emp_Fab

scrumhalf said:

Soup is wonderful. It's almost the kitchen sink of food, pretty much anything can go into soup.

Personally, I don't tend to favour plain soups. I like things in the soup to give different textures, like a Fisher Price activity centre, something different I'm every spoonful.

Recipe please...   How much activity centre do you put in, say, a 10 litre pot of soup?

Nitefly

Kilgore said:

Gazpacho.

Heat it up obviously. There's no need to be all 'continental' about it.

Wasn't he one of the Man United "bomb squad"?

Emp_Fab

No....  He was a Mexican revolutionary.