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> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 06:48:11 -0700, sf > wrote:
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>>On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:12:28 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:
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>>> On 2015-07-13 8:59 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>> >>> Everyone loves pea soup.
>>> >>
>>> >> No. I like lots of things, but pea soup isn't one of them.
>>> >
>>> > I loathe split pea soup. I even forbade a stranger next to
>>> > me to order it when it was the soup of the day. It is up
>>> > there with refried beans, to me. Blech.
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> It has always been one of my favourite soups, but there is a huge range
>>> of the stuff. I was raised with Habitant pea soup, which I think is the
>>> best commercially made split pea soup. Maybe it is because that was what
>>> I was raised on. I make my own these days and it is infinitely better
>>> than store bought. I always make some extra for my brother because he
>>> loves it. His wife hates it with a passion.
>>
>>I'm not a soup lover by any means, but I like bean soup and I've never
>>had an objection to split pea. I don't know how people can say they
>>hate a general category when they're actually talking about a premade
>>product in a can. I will say I hate chickpeas/garbanzos/cici beans
>>unconditionally when they are whole and I can say that because I've
>>eaten them both canned and reconstituted dry.
>
> I hate canned soup, any canned soup. I make home-made soup even
> though there is only me and then freeze it in single portions.
> Quickest lunch going.

Amen! I am not denigrating anyone here, but I get so disappointed when I
read a US recipe and so often I find condensed soup as an ingredient I am
sure there must be many recipes without, but I mostly seem to find the ones
that do


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