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nicest cup-a-soup ?

  • 27-11-2014 11:48am
    #1
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,951 ✭✭✭✭


    or hotcup, currently find the Erin beef and vegetable tasty enough.


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  • #2
    Reoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    There is no such thing as a nice cup-a-soup.
    It's easier to find a pot of gold and the end of a rainbow.


  • #3
    force eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    An empty one.


  • #4
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Agreed, there really is no such thing as a nice instant cuppa soup. Yuck!


  • #5
    The Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    2smiggy wrote: »
    or hotcup, currently find the Erin beef and vegetable tasty enough.

    I know that everyone's definition of "tasty" is different but unless they dramatically improved since I last had one - admittedly over 10 years ago - then they are still rank.


  • #6
    Flibbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Flibbles


    They all taste like tomatoes that have been boil cooked in weak vegetable stock.


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  • #7
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,487 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    They're all vile. I particularly dislike the inevitable crunchy bits of pea and carrot that seem to defy being rehydrated.

    Making your own soup is probably one of the easiest things to do in the kitchen, so make up your own and reheat at work (assuming there's a microwave, of course) and save a bundle of money. I just buy whatever happens to be the Lidl /Aldi fresh veg offer of the week whenever it's on and make a big batch of soup out of that.


  • #8
    henryporter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭henryporter


    Pot noodles are worse muck though


  • #9
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Salty goodness


  • #10
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Oxtail. With a couple of slices of fresh Brennan's bread.


  • #11
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Kaylie Fresh Tiling wrote: »
    Agreed, there really is no such thing as a nice instant cuppa soup. Yuck!

    Though didn't they bring out a puke flavour a couple of years back. I thought it was very passable.


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  • #12
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,951 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    perhaps should have phrased it as least rank cup-a-soup !!

    they are handy on these cold mornings, especially if where you are working involves bringing a flask and sandwiches. I also find the leak and potato flavor not too bad.


  • #13
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    There are some nice ones coming in from Japan in the form of Miso soup, available in Asian markets. I like the Osuimono, and the spinach one is nice too. Healthy as well, good source of B vitamins.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #14
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    super_furry wrote: »
    Oxtail. With a couple of slices of fresh Brennan's bread.

    Oxtail is the champion amongst cup-o-soups. Dipping a slice of buttered soda bread in it is expert level.

    An Italian girl I worked with could not understand the concept of cuppa soups.


  • #15
    gerrybbadd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    Was always a fan of Knorr's Chicken, but they messed with the recipe, and now it's horrible.


  • #16
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    SNERT!


  • #17
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,487 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    bodice ripper wrote: »
    SNERT!
    I'm probably one of only a handful of people on boards (including yourself of course!) who knows what that is :D


  • #18
    Baron Kurtz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Baron Kurtz


    Alun wrote: »
    They're all vile. I particularly dislike the inevitable crunchy bits of pea and carrot that seem to defy being rehydrated.

    Making your own soup is probably one of the easiest things to do in the kitchen, so make up your own and reheat at work (assuming there's a microwave, of course) and save a bundle of money. I just buy whatever happens to be the Lidl /Aldi fresh veg offer of the week whenever it's on and make a big batch of soup out of that.

    Would you ever gazpacho it?


  • #19
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    http://www.cupasoup.nl/products/erwt


  • #20
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Batchelors Minestrone Cup A Soup with croutons & some soy sauce to taste.


  • #21
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    Pregnant and craving these at the moment (haven't eaten them in years). Yellow box (can't remember the brand) tomato flavour and the oxtail are my fav at the mo


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  • #22
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Alun wrote: »
    I'm probably one of only a handful of people on boards (including yourself of course!) who knows what that is :D
    Erwtensoep


  • #23
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    mirrorwall14 wrote: »
    Pregnant and craving these at the moment (haven't eaten them in years). Yellow box (can't remember the brand) tomato flavour and the oxtail are my fav at the mo

    Knowr?


  • #24
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Knowr?

    No clue. All I know is that this thread brought the cravings back with a vengeance and a trip to the shop is in order rofl


  • #25
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Muck-a-soup.


  • #26
    sammy37
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭sammy37


    Terrible vile stuff altogether and riddled with salt as well. Make a big pot of your own which is very easily and cheaply done and keep it in freezer in small containers and use as required. Much more tasty and definitely more healthy for you.


  • #27
    Semele
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Semele


    Bachelors Cream of Asparagus is a proper craving food for me! Otherwise I hate them all.


  • #28
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Forget the cup-a-soup stuff and get yourself a microwaveable vegetable soup by Cully & Sully.
    Much much nicer!


  • #29
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Reoil wrote: »
    There is no such thing as a nice cup-a-soup.
    It's easier to find a pot of gold and the end of a rainbow.
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/24/article-2430666-18393EFC00000578-657_634x467.jpg


  • #30
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    Erin Oxtail is by far the best.


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  • #31
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    Snert is a disgusting name for a brilliant soup.

    I bought this packet of miso cup a soups from a Chinese supermarket a year or so ago. The packet was for 12 cups of soup and had all these different strips of packets. So 12 miso paste, 12 very fine dried seaweed and tofu strips, 12 broth: 4 chicken, 4 beef, 4 veg. Best cup a soups ever, savoury and light and no clumpy powder.

    But can I find the feckers again? No I cannot.


  • #32
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,796 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Hot Cup is where it's at.


  • #33
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Family member of mine is addicted to these. I particularly hate the chicken one; smells of sweaty privates.


  • #34
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Always a soupy lump in the bottom no matter how well it is stirred! Rotten!

    Used to live on the chicken with croutons as a lad though. :)


  • #35
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Farmhouse vegetable


  • #36
    Lunaarli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 450 ✭✭Lunaarli


    I just bought a packet of Knorrs 'Gourmet Moments' 'cause they were half price in tesco. It was mushroom, bacon and mascarpone cheese and it was friggin delicious!

    Always found normal cup a soups rotten.. watery, with a few clumps at the bottom.

    The moments one was fab.


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  • #37
    Mallagio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭Mallagio


    Love an oul Oxtail


  • #38
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    Would ye not just make a big pot of soup yourselves? Fcuk a load of vegetables and a stock cube into a pot with some water and leave it to simmer for a while. Result: tasty homemade soup that fills you up.


    Cup-a-soups are rotten.


  • #39
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    LizT wrote: »
    Would ye not just make a big pot of soup yourselves? Fcuk a load of vegetables and a stock cube into a pot with some water and leave it to simmer for a while. Result: tasty homemade soup that fills you up.


    Cup-a-soups are rotten.

    except oxtail :)


  • #40
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    especially oxtail. Even the name sounds horrible.


  • #41
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    it's like a nectar from the golden gods


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  • #42
    pollyannawins
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭pollyannawins


    knorr used to do a great tai vegatible soup in a bag but shelved it (probably because we have such bland taste in Ireland I assume)

    a petition should be past round: I'm indignant


  • #43
    Zippie84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Zippie84


    chicken caesar.

    or peri-peri


  • #44
    Mallagio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭Mallagio


    LizT wrote: »
    Would ye not just make a big pot of soup yourselves? Fcuk a load of vegetables and a stock cube into a pot with some water and leave it to simmer for a while. Result: tasty homemade soup that fills you up.


    Cup-a-soups are rotten.

    Liz I'm a man & can't make s*it.


  • #45
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,146 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Skipen soup. You get a cup of chicken soup and then you empty half a packet of skips into it and let them melt. Yum.


  • #46
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    LizT wrote: »
    Would ye not just make a big pot of soup yourselves? Fcuk a load of vegetables and a stock cube into a pot with some water and leave it to simmer for a while. Result: tasty homemade soup that fills you up.


    Cup-a-soups are rotten.

    Made my own vegetable soup and it was so tasty and at least you know what's in it.


  • #47
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    Skipen soup. You get a cup of chicken soup and then you empty half a packet of skips into it and let them melt. Yum.

    This sounds like it could be a landmark invention. This needs to be tried.
    Have you tinkered with other types of crisp and soup flavours?


  • #48
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,146 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    This sounds like it could be a landmark invention. This needs to be tried.
    Have you tinkered with other types of crisp and soup flavours?

    Not yet. Skips are the only crisps I can think of that melt instantly. Plus its chicken and skipen, just seems to make sense.


  • #49
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    Not yet. Skips are the only crisps I can think of that melt instantly. Plus its chicken and skipen, just seems to make sense.

    Snax + Oxtail = Snail


  • #50
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,146 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Snax + Oxtail = Snail

    I'm not sure if the Snax would melt but they could make for an interesting crouton.


  • #51
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    I want some skipen soup now...


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