Thank you, Wegmans.
This was my dinner so I could get out quickly for my Thursday night bowling league, what with my dear wife Karen having plans to dine out right from work with her friend Marie without stopping at our beloved Little Bitty in the Syracuse City neighborhood of Eastwood.
One can of condensed Vegetable Alphabet soup, purchased at the James Street location of Wegmans, sale price, 99 cents. A deal for sure.
And it hit me: Good post for Super Bowl Sunday. Make sure C is the Roman numeral for 100 and stick that I in front of it, NFL naming style …
To answer using my super psychic powers: Yes, that’s my usual jumbo soup bowl. I don’t spill any, or too much, down the front of my shirt, this way. It replaced a favorite I had for years, a comforting beige baby with one brown horizontal stripe that I bestowed with a nickname. Alas, my Jethro Bowl and I split up after a dish washing incident, and I’ve been unable to find a twin. Yes, I usually eat a whole small can of soup, for lunch or dinner, leaving a few satisfying slurps for Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle.
Do you prefer canned or boxed soup? Condensed or pour-it-right-in-to-heat-and-eat? What variety of soup is your go-to meal? Do you any items in your cabinets that you’ve given a nickname, and if so, can you please share the story?
Mark Bialczak 
Hmmm… I actually prefer my own homemade soup. 🙂 I like the idea of naming your former Jethro bowl. My soup bowl is more of the Rachel Green variety – it’s a huge black “cup-bowl” that looks similar to the coffee mugs shown on “Friends” at Central Perk. That way, I can either eat it with a spoon, or slurp it up if I choose. 😉
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Good job on the naming rights of your Rachel Green, souper slurper!
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LOL! 😀
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would rather make it DIY, but the bagged bean soup with the little spice packets can be yumdillyicious. Have never thought to name a kitchen utensil or serving dish, though I do love some of them more than my family 😉 Especially like a set of fancy-pants gold (not real)-rimmed glasses that I found at a garage sale. they’re tall and thin–high balls, I suppose. Was told they came from Italy. Paid maybe $10 or $15 for the set of 12 and am very sorry to say that two have broken, one just last week when my youngest accidentally dropped it on the floor. Ah well. As with your first, not good to get too attached.
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as with your first bowl–not talking about first child
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I got it. Jethro, not Elisabeth.
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You must name those glasses. Something Italian, Liz. La Famiglia. 🙂
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i love to cook all kinds of soups, one of my fav meals most anywhere i go, also. as for premades, i have a thing for the mrs. grass’ chicken noodle soup in the box, with the mystery glob of gel/fat you drop into the boiling water to kick up the delicious a bit. love alphabet soup and tomato soup (made with milk) too, campbell’s in a can, and i agree, it’s one serving. love the jethro bowl )
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Mrs. Grass with the secret ingredient is the bomb, Beth. Great call on that one. I used to eat that as a kid. 🙂 Probably helped me be chubby. That and my propensity for the Jehtro Bowl servings early on.
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I’m for homemade soup all the way. Make a big batch and freeze one serving containers. The go-to that’s pretty much always in my freezer is my variation on Giada’s recipe for Ribollita: https://notjustsassyontheinside.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/americanized-ribollita-healthy-can-too-taste-good/
Sometimes I shred kale or southern greens in the food processor and use those instead of spinach. Great way to get those leafy greens in a setting where other tastes rule.
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Thank you, Leigh. Wow! Super yummy, it sounds like.
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Like Andy Warhol – Classic Tomato!
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You, Andy and the world love classic tomato, Wayne. Wow. 🙂
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That wouldn’t fill my 74 lb son’s belly. Now you need a Manwich. Just kidding. I eat soup several times a week out of a can, even if there’s aluminum that gives me Parkinson’s. Whatever (shakes while typing). I eat Progresso lentil or black bean soup and Tasty Classic thai style red curry. What I don’t like is the serving amounts. A can of soup is a dang serving, not two or three. I don’t drink a shot glass of soup. Just like a bottle of Coke. Don’t tell me it’s 2.5 servings. It’s a bottle. That’s a serving. It’s there, and I’m not drinking half of it on Monday, a quarter on Tues, and the rest on Wednesday. We went to Trader Joe’s last weekend and I got a can of their soup, and it was bitsy as all get out and said it was THREE servings. My white behind, it’s three servings. Dang, you got me on a roll with your alphabet soup, mister.
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I’m with you on soup serving sizes, Kerbey. And most of the rest of the meal guiidelines, too. I’m all in for moderation and all out on starvation.
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I prefer chunky soup. Canned, or frozen. Of course, home made, by someone else is the number one choice. 🙂
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Good No. 1, Colleen. 🙂 That’s why you’re MDB.
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😉 We do have some clear Buddy understandings and agreements!!!!
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Aren’t you starving?
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Oh, yeah, Wormy.
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Funny, I eat soup almost every night. I go for Campbells or Progresso if it’s cheap. Must say, I’m a little disappointed by this blog. I thought the I.C. was going to stand for ice cream! (just kidding Mark, I could never be disappointed by your blogs.)
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Ice cream is always good, Marissa. Lately I’ve been eating Klondike no sugar added bars with the Krunch outer coating. 🙂
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Are they good? I don’t eat sweets that often so when I do, I just want them extra fat, extra sugar.
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They’re not as good as extra fat, extra sugar, but they are what I’m allowed. So they’re better than nothing, Marissa. 🙂
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Awwwe….
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I love soup! Mark at the risk of sounding high on my horse, I prefer home-made soup. I can’t remember the last time I bought canned or boxed soup. I make a big batch of soup once every week or two and freeze what’s not used for a future meal when I don’t feel like cooking.
Back when I bought canned soup, my favourite was the steak and potato soup from the Chunky Soup people and Habitant Pea soup (a very French Canadian kinda thing)
Diana xo
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It’s not a high horse, Diana, it’s ability and time and compunction! It sounds like a great place to be, actually, my friend. 🙂 Steak and potato is good Chunky, but I’m not much for any sort of Pea soup. 🙂
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Making split pea soup with leftover ham…mmmmmmm
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Nothing beats Campell’s (canned) tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich! Takes me back to snowy winters in Baltimore when I was a kid, and mittens drying out on the ‘heat register’ while I ate a quick lunch before donning again the still soggy gloves. Hey there was snow on the ground, my sled on the back porch, and Cindy, Donna and Debbie yelling “C’mon, Kate, time for sledding!” Ah, the good old days! 😀
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That’s a great memory, Kate. Heat registers in Baltimore. In Brooklyn they were “radiators.” The snow and mittens and sleds and yelling friends were the same all over the world. 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
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My grandmother always called them ‘registers.’ 😀
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Campbell’s tomato soup is my choice. The little tins of condensed are perfect – just a meal. Odd that they had a bigger can first . The big can was too much for 1 meal and not enough for 2. I sometimes call it tomat (toe-mat), the French pronounciation.
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The condensed is fine-sized for me, too, Paul. Sometimes I go Progresso brand, though, which is a bigger can, for the pasta fagiole variety. Delish! Tomat is a fine pronunciation in Quebec, but in Syracuse I would probably get looks. 🙂
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I eat soup almost every day. I “can” my own soups.
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That’s a great idea, *canning* your homemade soups, PJ. I bet they tase way better than the store bought variety. PIck a special flavor for today’s game!
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I would say, either, “Chile,” Green Chile Chicken” or “Psole.” They would all be good choices.
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I don’t even know what Psole is, PJ. Bad on me. Chile and green chile chicken sound great, though. 🙂
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That’s okay Mark that you don’t know what Psole’ is. If you don’t live in the southwest, how could you know? Psole’ is a Mexican soup. It has Red Chile, Pork, and Hominy. It is very delicious. Some people make it with green chile rather than red chile.
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It sounds spicy, and I like that, PJ!
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If you like spicy then you would like it. It is actually delicious. It is a popular New Year’s dish for Mexicans.
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Campbell’s tomato soup, made with milk, and a grilled cheese sandwich is pretty much the perfect lunch in this house. I make a lot of homemade soups as BH is a Soup Man big-time. I know what you mean about the bowl, I have a bowl which is the only one I make salad dressing in. It doesn’t come out right in another bowl. Go figure. Have a great day, Mark.
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My dear wife Karen matches you with the perfect lunch, Barbara, and I with BH as a Soup Man big-time. Parallel lives. Go figure, indeed. Happy Souper Bowl Sunday, my friend.
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