On 7/13/2015 10:57 AM, Acme Bully Control wrote:
> On 7/13/2015 2:35 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On 7/13/2015 9:51 AM, Acme Bully Control wrote:
>>> On 7/13/2015 1:42 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>> On 7/13/2015 9:15 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 06:48:11 -0700, sf > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:12:28 -0400, Dave Smith
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cooking with condensed soup is what American cooks unabashedly did
>>>> during the 60's. I don't think it's a popular thing to do in these
>>>> modern times. OTOH, there are exceptions like green bean casserole in
>>>> which canned soup should be used to remain faithful to the traditional
>>>> recipe.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Damned straight!
>>>
>>> And Durkee fried onions too!
>>
>> That is good stuff - I can't say that I like green bean casserole but I
>> don't mind it every once in a while, but only if you serve me the top
>> 1/2" or so. Hee hee.
>
> ROFLOL!
>
> You mean someone actuaklly eats the underneath?
>
> Dang!
>
>>>
>>>> When I was I kid, I'd stuff a flank steak with canned beef vegetable
>>>> soup and braise it. It seemed like a fancy thing to do. I wouldn't
>>>> do it
>>>> these days because frankly, the very idea makes me ill and besides,
>>>> have
>>>> you seen the prices on flank steak these days?
>>>
>>>
>>> You need to use Pepperidge Farm, stuffing.
>>>
>>> Trust me on this...
>>
>> That could be do-able. OTOH, stuffing a flank steak with soup is
>> something that could only have existed in the 60's.
>
>
> I yield to the power of your imagination and suspension of simple physics.
>
> I must have shared the french onion soup dumplings recipe with you, yes?
>
> Somethings are so wrong they have to be right!

My guess is some marketing guy at the Campbell's soup company came up
with this "recipe" because he needed some filler material for one of
those little booklets that you'd rip out of woman's magazine so he came
up with this little gem. Of course, he obviously never attempted to try
to test this "recipe" out. Back then, we didn't have very many cooking
mags around, we actually cooked rather than read about cooking.