Soup of the day?????
Posted by Magic on February 3, 2013, 3:17 am
There is not much that makes the little hairs on the back of my neck stand up more than the words “Soup of the Day” written or said, it all but makes me shiver. I have not had a good relationship with soup since my mother thought that yesterdays gravy watered down would make for a tasty lunchtime snack, onto a simple question “what is the soup of the day” sends servers into a veritable tailspin accompanied by the usual “I’ll just go and ask” Even in a famous pub chain restaurant in the UK we are told that “We don’t know what the soup of the day is yet as it hasn’t been delivered” From something that should be so quick and easy to make and yet taste so delicious “on the Day” becomes more and more complicated by the minute. I have witnessed dried packet tomato soup last at least a few days when simply given different names and by adding cooked rice, a poached egg or carrots then another day mixed with the other staple of the hotel, oxtail and then called brown Windsor, the combinations were endless from just two dried packets. Now we get “new soups” which to me resemble sludge both in taste and texture or really sloppy mashed potato, more a puree than a soup and don’t get me started on packet minestrone and spring vegetable. What happened to the classic soups that not only remain in my memory ? Toodle pip Magic
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