No soup for you!
As I sit here, sipping on a fantastic brew of Country Cup ‘Cream of Chicken and Mushroom’ Soup for morning tea, I find myself realising just how good soup is.
I used to have soup all the time. Tomato, Big Red to be exact was one of my favourites. Then there was Chicken and Corn - also from the Country Cup variety. Honestly, though any soup would do.
Then I stopped. I don’t know why exactly - maybe the Soup Nazi packed up and left town - and I had no other option. I’m not sure. But this Winter, we got a permanent jug in the office so I started buying packets of soup again..
Maybe times have changed since I was last a soup fan, but I’m in awe of all the flavours and varieties soup comes in now. The soup section of the local Woolies is like an entire aisle and every flavour imaginable is covered. Not only is every flavour covered, but also every style and every mix-in too.
You can get soup with noodles, without noodles. With croutons or without. They come with herbs. You can buy the creamy or less-creamy (I assume) variety.
With such a multitude of soups, the decision to purchase a single soup packet becomes much more difficult.
What flavour do I want? Do I want an additional mix in? Do I get plain soup, or soup with noodles? Should I get the creamy variety? Should I get it with the croutons?!
It becomes one big game of Choose Your Own Adventure.
Sure, its nothing like walking into the Soup Kitchen and having to deal with the over-regimentation that ‘Yev Kasem’; AKA the Soup Nazi, constantly demanded of his patrons, but it is just as taxing to the senses.
Go the cold cucumber, wild mushroom, corn and clam chowders, jambalaya, turkey chili, lima bean, tomato noodle, mulligatawny, and crab and lobster bisques.
Mmmmm soup.
NEXT!
