Chicken Noodle Soup

Yacoub Al-Sakkaf
Soup Stories
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2 min readApr 27, 2018
Photo Credit: Elise Bauer

My favorite soup is chicken noodle soup because it was there for me when everything seemed to be going wrong. I remember senior year of high school being one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I was always filled with excitement, regarding what was coming next. Senior trips, senior dance and especially sports day. After I finished my senior year exams, I was allowed to go back home from Switzerland to the Middle East for a couple of weeks. Suddenly, I started feeling excruciating pain in my stomach. Long story longer, within 30 minutes, I was in the hospital getting an IV. I ended up having a terrible stomach flu, and even missed Sports Day. This was specifically horrible seeing as I wasn’t going to have the opportunity to beat my own sprinting record. What does this have to do with soup? Because when it seemed like everything around me was going wrong, the only thing that was going right, was the soup I had every day; chicken noodle soup. And for that reason, my favorite soup has to be chicken noodle soup. My mom always prepared it with love, and I could never say no to some nice warm noodles and some tenderly seasoned chicken. Thank you, chicken noodle soup, for being there for me.

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