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nicest cup-a-soup ?

  • 27-11-2014 10:48am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,999 ✭✭✭✭


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


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  • 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.


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


    An empty one.


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


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


  • 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Flibbles


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,529 ✭✭✭✭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.


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


    Pot noodles are worse muck though


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


    Salty goodness


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,351 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


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


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


    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,999 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,115 ✭✭✭✭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.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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


    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.


  • 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.


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


    SNERT!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,529 ✭✭✭✭Alun


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


  • 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?


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




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


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


  • 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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    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?


  • 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


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


    Muck-a-soup.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


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


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


  • 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!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 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


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


    Erin Oxtail is by far the best.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Hot Cup is where it's at.


  • 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.


  • 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. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,320 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Farmhouse vegetable


  • 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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭Mallagio


    Love an oul Oxtail


  • 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.


  • 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 :)


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


    especially oxtail. Even the name sounds horrible.


  • 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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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


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


    chicken caesar.

    or peri-peri


  • 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,217 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


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


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,217 ✭✭✭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.


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


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,217 ✭✭✭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.


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


    I want some skipen soup now...


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