Soup Dish

[rinue]

Why is it that I have consumed an incalculable number of excellent marinaras, but almost every tomato soup has been horrible - thin or weak or sickly sweet? I am a great lover of soups. There is no reason good tomato soup should be so rare, or so often dependent on heavy cream. Get your act together, tomato soup makers. Perhaps you do not own spices; perhaps you are not sure about cooking temperatures for high-acid fruits. Surely you can find an Italian peasant who will explain it to you in exchange for coffee.

Comments

[narcolepticcat.livejournal.com]

because the world is insane. also because stop trying tomato soup. or heat up some v8 and do it that way. yech. my mother tried to tell me once "if you like pizza and spaghetti, you should like tomato soup." and i say to that, "wrong."

[rinue.livejournal.com]

I have tried the hot v8 trick, because I love cold v8 (particularly the spicy v8), but once you heat it up, the celery flavor gets overwhelming and the whole thing is awful.

I can of course make my own tomato soup, but the point is, there is no reason for this particular variety of tomato liquid to be so inferior to both tomato sauce and, as you rightly point out, tomato juice.

[narcolepticcat.livejournal.com]

the reason is that it should not exist the words "tomato" and "soup" should never have been put together. much like "silicone" and "breasts".