Any soup freaks here?

[MLF1981]

12. I was a professional chef for a lot of years...

Started as a line cook, made it up to Sous Chef, and then got too damn old to keep up, and never did quite get to Executive Chef, where you can (mostly) just sit back and watch your ass grow. That being said, I used to love making the weekly soup. Usually just what was on the menu, but sometimes I got to be creative. I still can make the best French Onion you ever had, with loads of perfectly caramelized onions, a nice toasted baguette slice or two, and loads of shredded Gruyere too.

Now, that being said, I grew up on Campbell's, and my favorites always were the classic chicken noodle, and pepper pot, which they don't make any more. Tripe isn't something that most Americans are interested in eating these days. I'm not supposed to eat organ meats any more, because of gout, but I absolutely loved that pepper pot soup when I was a kid.

These days I absolutely love a can of Campbell's gumbo with a ton of Tabasco and Tony Chachere's. If you've never tried it, please do. It's fantastic.

Oh, and fun fact, Campbell's was going to discontinue what they then called "Chicken Soup with Noodles" until one of the announcers on Amos and Andy (Yes, I know, not the best thing in the world) called it, erroneously, "Chicken Noodle Soup", and the company was deluged with people asking where the could get this soup that technically didn't exist yet, so they rebranded it, and the rest is history. It's still by far their second most popular after Tomato, which I've never thought tasted rights since they switched from using real sugar to HFCS. I remember my Dad putting a pat of butter and celery salt into his.