Soup

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Damn, do I love soup. I really do. It's so tasty good and warm and comforting, especially this time of year. The only soups I don't like are cold soups - soup is not meant to be cold, IMO. One time I went to a coworker's house for dinner & she gave us soup that supposedly had mango & other fruits in it. It literally tasted like vomit, it was all I could do not to throw up on her table. I politely said "Oh, it's just not for me" and supressed the urge to gag. Oh, and I'm not a big fan of tomato.

I love creamy soups (mushroom is best.) Broccoli cheese & beer cheese soup are good too. For brothy soups, I prefer chicken or turkey over beef. And I don't like soup with ground beef floating around in it - little steak chunks are one thing, but wet ground beef is yuck. French onion is good as long as there's lots of melted cheese. Ooooh! And my favorite local restaurant makes Buffalo Chicken Wing soup - so good! And this one Chinese restaurant (it's really good, authentic Chinese food, not that fast-food buffet crap I usually eat) makes a phenomenal egg drop soup using only the whites.

I make a kickass split pea with ham soup, usually in Spring with the leftover Easter ham. I really should make soup more often. As far as canned, I used to love Campbell's chicken noodle or cream of mushroom as a kid, but they're too blah for me now. Progresso's great in a pinch, I take that for lunch a lot.

Thoughts on soup? For or against?