Another Halloween horror, the food edition

[nineveh_uk]

Did you ever look at a saucepan of broccoli and think "What that needs is some cream"? Me neither. And yet my pot of extra-thick double cream from Sainsbury's has a picture on the lid of broccoli covered in what is presumably cream.

I can only imagine that this is an attempt to make extra-thick double cream healthy by association by presenting some sort of "broccoli cheese" dish as one of one's five-a-day. If so, it is a complete failure, and only serves to make cream disgusting by association. I like cream. I like broccoli. I am willing to stand up for the pleasant taste and the health-giving properties of each. But broccoli and cream can only be an abomination.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Cream of broccoli soup?

[white_hart]

Why would anyone make cream of broccoli soup when they could make broccoli and stilton soup instead?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Why would anyone make either? A waste of broccoli, stilton, cream, and indeed water.

/signed-up member of soup-haters anonymous

[white_hart]

How can you hate soup? Soup is a glorious thing! (Though I have made many kinds of soup, and none of them has ever had cream in.)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I don't hate soup, but I am pretty much never in the mood to have any, and I don't count it as proper sustenance in my head.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

The soup-haters club acknowledges your position as a reasonable one.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Vichyssoise! Assuming that my mum is right and it's just leek and potato with cream in.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It is traditionally served cold

*Flees in opposite direction* No, I'm just not a soup eater. And tomato or potato are worst of all, at least now that beef tea is not commonly served.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Very good soup that is thick (light puree), I can cope with, but in general it falls under the categories of "liquid foodstuffs that are wrong". I don't like a lot of flavoured drinks, and any thin/clear soup is just in the "urgh" category for me.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I make a huge exception for proper ramen--the kind with noodles, vegetables, tofu, and at least one form of unidentified fish something-or-other. That is pretty amazing when done properly, but it's also difficult to find. But, aside from that, I do tend to associate thin soups with being ill.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Equally WRONG!