Soup is not a meal! Soup is not a meal!

[onebigbadwulf]

Your thoughts?

[yvr girl]

1. Them is fighting words!

I love soup. What about lunch. Perfect meal. Below is a link to my favourite soup restaurant.

http://www.soupetcetera.com

[T Bone]

2. More people than not worldwide would BEG to differ with you

Plenty of people in the world would think they had died and gone to heaven if they had a bowl of soup three times a day.

[Melodybe]

6. Campbell's tomato soup with a dash of red pepper and goldfish crackers

is a great meal.

I completely disagree, soup can totally be a meal.

You have never had my husband's irish potato soup or his creamy curry broccoli soup, so I guess, I'll forgive you.

[punpirate]

3. Give us an example of the kind...

... of soup you mean....

[onebigbadwulf]

8. This is not a meal!

[Melodybe]

9. Well sure, that soup isn't a meal

I hope you didn't pay too much for it.

[punpirate]

15. If you're starving...

... it's a meal. If you're not, well, yeah, it's a little on the thin side.

But, for most of us, that's not soup. It's broth. :)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Depends on the soup. A big ol' vat of seafood gumbo, teeming with

oysters, crab, shrimp, crawdads, okra, starchy roux and rice? Most assuredly is a meal, sometimes several! And that's just one example...

[punpirate]

16. Now yer talkin'....

That's more like it. I like to make a hot pepper bouillabaise out of shrimp, mussels (when I can get fresh ones), clams, oysters, green and red and yellow peppers, onions and a few large chunks of whitefish. A little tabasco, a little cayenne, a bit of gumbo file', white pepper and one finely diced habanero. Cook that down and chill it a couple of times and it'll warm you up on a cool day. :P

[NaturalHigh]

5. Not a Meal?

Sorry, I can't go for that. Taking time to microwave a bowl of soup is vastly superior to grabbing another stale doughnut out of the box and getting a refill of twice-cooked coffee.

[PittLib]

13. Pssst ...

... welcome! :hi:

[NamVetsWeeLass]

20. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[mahina]

7. Beg to differ...

I spent the afternoon making chicken soup for my kid with the flu.
Magic stuff.
Plus the word 'supper' comes from soup. (Errr- I heard once. )
And the verb, "to sup".
So there it is.

[donheld]

10. It depends on the soup

Broth is not soup, therefore not a meal. There are many soups that would keep the world nourished for many meals :9

[bratcatinok]

11. Broth can be a meal if you've been

on an IV for 9 days! Nothing had ever tasted better than the chicken broth I had for my first meal once the doctor's decided to let me ease into eating.

[NaturalHigh]

12. Ummm...broth

I had a similar experience after getting sick and being on an IV to replenish the fluids in my body. I wouldn't have traded that broth for the best steak in Oklahoma. That was over eight years ago, but I still remember the taste.

[Skittles]

14. I ABSOLUTELY AGREE

nt

[Demeter]

17. You Obviously Haven't Had Any of MY Soups!

[Bridget Burke]

18. Campbell's Soup At Hand is not a meal....

No, I haven't tried it. But surely you've seen the ads. Mostly, they show busy women stuck at work, sipping prepackaged nuked soup with one hand because they can't take time out to eat. Come on, now--not even time to get up from your desk to go grab a sandwich? Maybe in an emergency, but the new product is being pushed as the regular way to eat.

Soup can be a meal. Gumbo has already been mentioned. Mexican & Vietnamese cooks make excellent soups. Even Campbells' tomato is good--if you'll let me have a grilled cheese sandwich, too.

[Elginoid]

19. soup is good food!

nt

[BiggJawn]

21. If Bush stays in power, we'll be damn glad to have soup...

"Wow, Hun! Soup instead of cat food tonight? what'd you do, go shopplift...I mean shopping?"

My ESSO makes a vegetable soup with big chunks of sirloin in it that you don'rt want anything other than a crusty baguette alongside.

But if we don't get rid of Bush, I'll be mixing stolen ketchup packets with hot water...So will you.

[Brewman_Jax]

25. Ketchup is a vegetable

isn't that what the neo-cons said through the 80's when they wanted to cut school lunch programs? :P

You're right, a lot of people might be having ketchup soup if Bush* isn't sent home. :(

[BiggJawn]

26. Yes, it's Tomatoe Soup!

The more packets you rip-off, the thicker it is...

[Brewman_Jax]

22. Chunky soup is quite the meal

lived on that stuff in college many years ago. Comes in very handy when you're too late for the dining hall, and there's no pizza or (enter alternative here) money.

Gumbo is great, too, along with stew. Can't beat good home cooking :9

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. The cream soups I make that take me hours are meals. The chicken

lemon rice soup I make is a meal. The sauerkraut and dumpling soup I make is a meal....Those are just a few of my thoughts. :hi:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

24. It depends...

Stew is a meal, chili is a meal...but some soups are appetizers, like Minestone. :shrug: I think it has more to do with how you were raised and what you eat with the soup. Like Tomato soup. If you eat it with Grilled cheese, it's definately a meal.
Duckie