On 7/13/2015 3:12 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> 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.


A brave old world it was indeed.