by
cj592
@ 2007-12-03 - 19:11:38
What possible issues could I have with soup? Let me begin....
When I was a wee bairn and I got sick I used to have to convince my mum to let me stay home- otherwise I would be packed off to school (sick or not). If I did manage to get a day off school, I had to spend the day in bed and not eat anything. By tea time, if I was lucky I was allowed something to eat- and invariably it was soup! Chicken soup to be exact. So I have always had this connection in my head: sickness = soup
Now this connection didn't improve when I was a student- when I had to live off a budget and all I could afford was cheap tinned stuff from poundsave. Now Poundsave did this vegetable soup for about 10p but it was the weakest, most watery excuse for soup... And it wasn't vary nice either. But I was poor and couldn't afford anything better (Except for perhaps a tin of 10 thin frankfurter sausages for 15p.) So now the connection with soup included poverty!
My OH loves soup and makes some wonderful soups. She even orders it in a restaurant. But I could never do that. Why go out to a restaurant and order soup! What a waste! Even this weekend when I had soup, it was because I was ill!
And that is my issue with soup. I have been mentally conditioned and I am not sure how to break the cycle (Or if I would want to)