I used to love Jaunita's Menudo, but of course
I don't eat Specified Risk Materials anymore.

For a while, I satisfied myself with Juanita's
Pork Pozole and Chicken Pozole. Those are
pretty good soups -- after eating those
Mexican-style soups for some time, I really
found regular supermarket soups (Progresso,
Wolfgang Puck, etc.) rather dislikeable.
I got used to the simpler, cleaner taste of
the Mexican style soups.

But then I happened to visit a large Mexican
supermarket, and I bought some of Juanita's
soups I'd never seen before. The one I really
like is Caldo de Pollo. It's a chicken soup
with lots of vegetables. I like it much better
than the pozole, because the pozole is full of
hominy. I'm on a low-carb diet, so I'd scoop
out most of the hominy and throw it away, which
seemed like such a waste. But the Caldo de
Pollo is much better than merely a hominy-free
chicken soup. It's really got a great broth --
the best canned chicken broth I've ever tasted.
And there's something different about the chunks
of chicken -- they taste so much better than
the similar chunks in the pozole. I still had
several cans of the pozole when I discovered the
Caldo de Pollo, and I had a hard time finishing
them off. No more pozole for me!

I've been thinking about laying in a supply of
canned soup in the event of a bird flu pandemic,
and this would be something I could eat every day
for several years!