“Soup Is Gross!”

Hospital food, like soup, is often thought of as a gross food. Photo by Siobhan via Flickr.

Soup is one of those foods that a lot of people say is gross. It’s one of those enigmas that somewhere along the way someone decided something about, which it wouldn’t ever escape. Well congratulations, most-everyone agrees soup is gross, save the few of us who actually love soup — myself included — and the rest of who love soup quietly in the privacy of their own homes.

As one of those people who like “weird” foods, I have no shame in saying how much I love soup. I love it. So, where do I start when describing a type of food that is more difficult to define concretely than say, a casserole? It can be a combination of almost anything, so long as it doesn’t have to be chewed, even though some soups have to be chewed. Okay. Soup can be anything you can swallow that’s liquid or at least not solid.

Creamy Carrot Soup by tracy benjamin via Flickr

I should talk about my favorite soups first. They are: chicken noodle, black bean, matzo ball, gazpacho, tortilla, butternut squash, and Manhattan clam chowder (the red kind). The list doesn’t end there. Really, I like any soup that doesn’t have much cream in it. If soup is served at a restaurant and I’m not in Arizona during the summertime, I will order it most of the time.