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Soup - not a meal?

The answer to this age old dispute was settled in the Seinfeild episode "the soup":

(Bania and Jerry are in a resturant - Jerry is reluctantly taking Bania out for a meal to thank him for giving him his armarni suit)

Bania: Oh, get the swordfish. Best swordfish in the city. The best, Jerry.

Jerry: I’ll have the salmon.

Waiter: And you?

Bania: Ahh, you know what I think. I’m just going to have soup. Yeah, I’ll save the meal for another time.

Jerry: Another time? What other time?

Bania: I had a hot dog earlier. I’m not that hungry.

Jerry: No, no, Bania, no. This is the dinner. The soup counts.

Bania: Soup's not a meal. You're supposed to buy me a meal.

Jerry: I’m not stopping you from eating. Go ahead and eat. Get anything you want.

Bania: I don't want anything but soup.

Jerry: Then that's the meal.

Bania: But I had the hot dog.

Jerry: I didn’t tell you to have a hot dog. Who told you to have a hot dog?

Bania: Hey, I give you a brand-new Armani suit, and you won't even buy me a meal?

Jerry: All right, fine. Get the soup!

New scene.
The camera fades from the previous scene into the next scene. It's the next day, outside in front of an apartment building. Elaine sits on the front stoop while Jerry leans against the railing as they talk.

Jerry: So he just gets soup. He wants to save the meal. So now I got to do it all over again.

Elaine: What kind of soup did he get?

Jerry: I don't know? Consommé or something.

Elaine: Consommé, hmm.

Jerry: What?

Elaine: Well, that's not really a meal Jerry. I mean if he had gotten Chicken Gumbo, or Matzah Ball, or Mushroom Barley. Then I would agree with you. Those are very hardy soups.

Jerry: Elaine you're missing the whole point.

Elaine: What?

Jerry: The meal is the act of sitting down with him. It doesn't matter what you get, as long as he's sitting in that restaurant, its a meal.

Elaine: Was it a cup or a bowl?

Jerry: You see -- ah, uh ...

Elaine: I’m just curious.

Jerry: A bowl, ok?

Elaine: Did he crumble any crackers in it?

(Jerry blows out a breath)

Elaine: (reiterating the question) Did he crumble, any crackers in it?

Jerry: As a mater of fact, he did.

Elaine: Oh, well. Crackers in a bowl. That -- That could be a meal.

Jerry: It's like I’m talking to my Aunt Sylvia here.
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Due to my bloody poorly teeth soup is the only thing I can manage so it's been every meal I've had for the last two days. I'm not hungry!
 
lemontop said:
Due to my bloody poorly teeth soup is the only thing I can manage so it's been every meal I've had for the last two days. I'm not hungry!
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Couldn't you liquidise your fantastic taiwanese hotpot? Ooo, whats wrong with your teeth?
 
sojourner said:
Couldn't you liquidise your fantastic taiwanese hotpot? Ooo, whats wrong with your teeth?
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Got an abscess so can't move my jaw and eating anything is bloody painful:( Had noodle soup for my tea but couldn't manage the dumplings! is there a thread on here with soup recipes? I need some inspiration for tomorrow.
 
sojourner said:
See, this proves my theory that only posh fuckers think soup is a starter :p
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Oi! I ain't posh! I was born in a council estate in tottenham - I can't be posh! :p

*hopes sojourner hasn't heard my voice*
 
People with small appetites think soup is a meal ;)

Although it would be alright as a meal if you weren't very hungry for some reason but generally, or at least for me personally, soup is not enough.

I made carrot & coriander soup tonight and we ate it with smoked haddock and sauteed potatoes. Then I had a yoghurt and 2 slices of cake cos I am a greedy fuck :cool:
 
SubZeroCat said:
People with small appetites think soup is a meal ;)
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IME, poor students who have no money (minus allocated beer money) think soup is a meal. ;)

Depends - for me it's a lunch/tea, but not a main meal lunch/dinner. Unless I'm ill. Or a poor beer guzzling student. :)
 
Xanadu said:
I keep aiming to have 5 little meals a day, so I don't get patching of being hungry and to boost my metabolism. So I figure some soup would be perfect for that, since it's not too calorific, but it isn't even enough for one fifth of a day's food :rolleyes:

I had three small slices of bread with it. I think I need a proper whole baguette or something :o
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Are you saying that five tins of soup isn't enough food for a day?

How much do you all eat!? :eek:
 
True, but then poor students will eat crappy canned soup. Some of it's ok but some it (usually cream of chicken) is like sludge....euurgh.

Homemade soup is full of veggies and things and will give them the nutrition they need, hand blenders are only about £6 in Woolworths :)

*stops being on sensible mum mode* :o

Soup would make great comedown food actually........
 
SubZeroCat said:
True, but then poor students will eat crappy canned soup. Some of it's ok but some it (usually cream of chicken) is like sludge....euurgh.

Homemade soup is full of veggies and things and will give them the nutrition they need, hand blenders are only about £6 in Woolworths :)

*stops being on sensible mum mode* :o

Soup would make great comedown food actually........
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Sorry, didn't read thread properly, I thought that was the sort of soup we were talking about. :o
 
Agent Sparrow said:
Sorry, didn't read thread properly, I thought that was the sort of soup we were talking about. :o
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Heathen! :mad:

Nah, I think it's both kinds tbh. I just operate in "home-made soup" mode you see.

*gotta stop being in "modes"*

subversplat - how little do you eat? :eek:

Yeah ok so I eat enough to feed a small country but 1 can of soup a day? Crazy I tell yas.
 
SubZeroCat said:
Soup would make great comedown food actually........
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My mate used to refer to tinned soup as 'head food' in his days of amphetamine abuse. It made him feel like he'd eaten something with vegetables in so he was okay and healthy.

Tinned soup and a nourishment for pudding.:)
 
geminisnake said:
IMO soup is stuff in a pot with loads of bits in it and if you can stand a spoon up in it that's good :p
Therefore soup can be a meal in my house, and often is. Generally served with tattie scones or garlic nan :)
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I decided to take a photo of last night's pot of soup to prove my post above :D


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Please ignore manky cooker :o
 
geminisnake said:
I decided to take a photo of last night's pot of soup to prove my post above :D


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Please ignore manky cooker :o
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:D What soup is that mate? I used to have a cooker like that - you could have fed the 5fuckinthousand off mine hehe

I still disagree that soup isn't a meal. I've had a vast pot of leek and potato soup goin the last 3 days, and with some chunky rolls, it is a meal. Sticks to yer ribs, fills the belly (all night HACtually SZC:p ). Depends on the soup, and the maker I guess.
 
It was sort of lentil. Lentils, carrots, bacon bits, neep, some peppers and leek in it, served with tattie scones it did us as a meal. Son didn't even do his usual eating several things straight after either(or at all last night) :eek:

The cooker is a 2 ring baby belling.
 
Just spent 3 days on a ship in the storm off greece and all anybody did was eat mungo bean soup knocked up by the philipino cook and puke

Apart from looking a little gaunt everyone survived

Big soup is ideal hangover gear along with Nannas trifle (No sharp edges and no chewing rewired)

Trifle should consist of strawberry jelly, bit of tinned fruit, peach blamanche (sp) and whipped cream NO SHERRY OR BITS OF SPONGE
 
geminisnake said:
It was sort of lentil. Lentils, carrots, bacon bits, neep, some peppers and leek in it, served with tattie scones it did us as a meal. Son didn't even do his usual eating several things straight after either(or at all last night) :eek:

The cooker is a 2 ring baby belling.
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Thought it might be a lentil thing. Sounds and looks fantastic! Me daughter does the same thing after a big MEAL of soup ;) :D
 
I just had soup (but id probably call it a broth) for dinner. I don't see why it cant be a meal - heres what was in mine:

prawns
sliced shitake mushrooms
spring onions
pak choi
rice noodles
garlic, chilli, ginger, chinese 5 spice, oyster sauce, seasame oil

all cooked in about a pint and half of water. If you took out the water it could be a prawn stir fry - so why isnt it a meal if you add water/stock? weirdos :p
 
Callie said:
I just had soup (but id probably call it a broth) for dinner. I don't see why it cant be a meal - heres what was in mine:

prawns
sliced shitake mushrooms
spring onions
pak choi
rice noodles
garlic, chilli, ginger, chinese 5 spice, oyster sauce, seasame oil

all cooked in about a pint and half of water. If you took out the water it could be a prawn stir fry - so why isnt it a meal if you add water/stock? weirdos :p
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Cor Callie...making me really hungry now! Put it up on wiki, if you haven't already *please and thank you* ;) :D
 
That does sound nice Callie.

I'm going to need to make more maybe tomorrow or the next day to use the rest of the veggies. Lidl are doing veg half price and the carrots come in 1kg bags!!
 
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