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I have what might be a truly unpopular opinion.
To me, real soup is light and gentle. Think of a basic chicken soup you eat when you're sick — that's the ideal.
Here's how I see it: soup should be cooked entirely in one pot. All the vegetables, meat, fish — whatever you add — boils together in one consistency and becomes a complete dish. You shouldn't need to add anything fried, smoked, or pre-cooked separately.
The moment you start frying vegetables first or adding smoked meat, it stops being soup. It becomes something else. Something very liquid and watery — but still a stew, not a soup. That's the best way I can describe it.
I get that you can add crispy bacon on top of a creamy pumpkin soup — that's fine. But when the soup itself is made with smoked meat? That crosses a line for me. It's no longer soup.
Here's an example that still upsets me.
My mom is religious (Christian Orthodox), so she observes Great Lent. For 48 days, she basically goes vegan. Back then, she made a bean soup — no meat, no smoke. It was incredible. So delicious that recently, when I came to visit, she offered to make that same bean soup again. I was so excited.
But when I arrived at her place, I almost threw up from the smell of smoked meat. I looked in the trash — bones. I opened the pot — just a ton of grease, smoked meat chunks, and almost no vegetable flavor. That wasn't the bean soup I remembered. I couldn't eat it.
Maybe I'm the only person who sees soup as something delicate, brothy, and simple.
And yes — you can call me a hypocrite if you want. Because I absolutely love pineapple on pizza. Also sweet chili sauce with pretty much anything, or milk chocolate with salted peanuts. To me, those combinations are incredible and don't ruin the dish at all. But smoked meat in soup? That's where I draw the line.
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To me, real soup is light and gentle. Think of a basic chicken soup you eat when you're sick — that's the ideal.
Here's how I see it: soup should be cooked entirely in one pot. All the vegetables, meat, fish — whatever you add — boils together in one consistency and becomes a complete dish. You shouldn't need to add anything fried, smoked, or pre-cooked separately.
The moment you start frying vegetables first or adding smoked meat, it stops being soup. It becomes something else. Something very liquid and watery — but still a stew, not a soup. That's the best way I can describe it.
I get that you can add crispy bacon on top of a creamy pumpkin soup — that's fine. But when the soup itself is made with smoked meat? That crosses a line for me. It's no longer soup.
Here's an example that still upsets me.
My mom is religious (Christian Orthodox), so she observes Great Lent. For 48 days, she basically goes vegan. Back then, she made a bean soup — no meat, no smoke. It was incredible. So delicious that recently, when I came to visit, she offered to make that same bean soup again. I was so excited.
But when I arrived at her place, I almost threw up from the smell of smoked meat. I looked in the trash — bones. I opened the pot — just a ton of grease, smoked meat chunks, and almost no vegetable flavor. That wasn't the bean soup I remembered. I couldn't eat it.
Maybe I'm the only person who sees soup as something delicate, brothy, and simple.
And yes — you can call me a hypocrite if you want. Because I absolutely love pineapple on pizza. Also sweet chili sauce with pretty much anything, or milk chocolate with salted peanuts. To me, those combinations are incredible and don't ruin the dish at all. But smoked meat in soup? That's where I draw the line.
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