On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:15:36 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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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

Where are you finding those recipes? I subscribe to well over 100
food blogs and I simply don't see current recipes that call for canned
soup.

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sf