"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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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
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>>>> On 2015-07-13 8:59 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
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>>>> >>> Everyone loves pea soup.
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>>>> >> No. I like lots of things, but pea soup isn't one of them.
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>>>> > 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>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.
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>> 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.
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> 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

It is actually hard to find recipes that don't contain the soup. I did buy
a Crockpot cookbook that has no soup in it.