Is there a soup that will convert “soup is not a meal” people into soup people?

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Anonymous wrote:Title says it all. What soup do you think qualifies? I’ve got a crockpot and a stew pot to make soup in so this will be homemade.

For me it’s Tortilla Soup. Add sour cream, cheese, chips, avocado, onion, cilantro on side! Could also serve w a salad and chips and salsa/queso

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not anti-soup by any means but it is typically pretty mediocre and those self-serve containers of soup at WF and other high-end grocers gross me out. And for some reason a good bowl of French onion soup (which I love) at a restaurant is now $13 to 20 dollars! Might as well order real food at that point.

I think Panera has ruined soup's reputation. Those bagged soups that just get worse and worse over the years.

This X10000. Making it well at home just isn’t worth the time IMO. Homemade stock makes a difference but I don’t have hours upon hours to do this. Maybe when we are retired we will get into soup making and become converts looking to push others into it.

I would never trust the homemade soups made by some of our older relatives as their food safety practices are waaayyyy below safe.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t enjoy cooking. Annie’s brand has a lentil soup tbat I drain slightly and eat over rice. It’s one of DDs favorite dinners.

The Lentil Vegetable is the BEST soup I've ever had, but so expensive $5.99 a can at Safeway! My goal is to try and recreate it.

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It’s a prole food. Always has been.

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Anonymous wrote:The soup at Mendi's is the best soup in the city.

But can it be considered a meal?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a prole food. Always has been.

People won't like hearing this but it's true. Soup can be palatable but it's always been an underclass and working class food item; typically leftovers and scraps thrown into a pot, a little bit of cheap/old meat, add water or broth, and you've got a meal. Can also eat (drink) it on the go, in the car - ex. construction workers, cops, cabbies, truck drivers, delivery men.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Title says it all. What soup do you think qualifies? I’ve got a crockpot and a stew pot to make soup in so this will be homemade.

For me it’s Tortilla Soup. Add sour cream, cheese, chips, avocado, onion, cilantro on side! Could also serve w a salad and chips and salsa/queso

Someone said this a few pages back. Got any new ideas?

OP does goulash count? Or is that outside the soup world.

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Beef barley
lamb and curried sweet potato
chicken pot pie soup (think pot pie filling, slightly thinner, with biscuits on top)

Those are some I didn't see. Seconding things like pho and ramen, chicken & dumpings, any soup that has meat/carb/veg, but I'm a soup person.

To the PP calling it "prole food", yes dear, your foods do have origin stories. That doesn't mean they stay where they started. Soup is a great "catch all" dish for using up scraps and things that might otherwise be thrown away (save the bones from your roasts and make your own stock!), but it's also an intentional dish that can take many hours of care and attention.