On 7/13/2015 9:48 AM, 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.

It's hard for me to understand how people can hate garbanzos, but
there you go. Something about them puts you off. That's how I
feel about split pea soup. The color, the smell, I just don't
want anything to do with it.

Yet I love lentil soup. No accounting for it.

nancy
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