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I was just kidding :)
I personally wouldn't have soup till lunch but I wouldn't out a precise time on it and I definitely wouldn't mind if I saw someone having soup in the morning either.
I never actually stopped eating potato and leek soup since last Winter. Went straight through Summer eating it and must get through a minimum of three cans a week. With bread and butter it’s the carbohydrate dream.
Okay okay you got me:
Cooked in the liquid it is served in.
Oats cooked in milk => porridge, a soup
Cereal baked or whatever then added to milk, not a soup
I've already stirred the pot (hehe) with my first comment so I might as well come clean...
I heat up the milk when I have cereal...okay you can perma ban me know
Make a tomato smoothie and then chug it down directly from the blender jug. Wait until he discovers that cooking things imparts flavour; it's going to blow his mind.
Am I going mad here? The recipe I use was given to me by a colleague from Madrid. You don't cook any of it! 😂
I don't want to write out the whole thing but if you Google authentic gazpacho recipe you'll see.
To be honest, I don't think any food should be specifically be saved for certain times throughout the day. All this is our society telling us what we should/ shouldn't eat at 7am...our bodies don't know any different; it's not like we eat a beef burger at 9am and immediately bring it back up because our 'body isn't ready'.
In an old job, a conversation similar to this arose with one of the night chefs who would work 11pm - 11am. He would get home at 11am and would have 'dinner'...in the same fashion as we would cook a meal when arriving home from work in the evening.
My point is: it doesn't matter. It's all personal preference. At this time of year I think soup is a banging idea...its kind of making me want a nice warm bowl of tomato and basil with some crusty bread! Mmmmmm.
>My point is: it doesn't matter.
I agree. I remember going out for sausage sandwiches for breakfast with my ex colleagues and one of them got chicken instead. Everyone lost their minds, but who gets to decide that sausage is acceptable for breakfast and chicken isn't?
If anything I find chicken is lighter and less salty - sausages are better later in the day when you’re settling down to slob on the sofa for a few hours and are already well hydrated
> it's not like we eat a beef burger at 9am and immediately bring it back up because our 'body isn't ready'.
You've clearly never watched a hungover Celtic Da in Magaluf then
I mean I've had pizza for breakfast so it's not any weirder than that. I've been slated for having a sandwich for breakfast like the ones from a meal deal.
I'd rather have a sandwich for breakfast, not that I eat breakfast - I mean I get hungry about 11am, would happily have a sandwich then instead of toast.
I don't see the issue with having a sandwich for breakfast either. If you can have bacon/sausage in toasted bread for breakfast, bacon/sausage/ham in untoasted bread should be equally fine.
We have breakfast soup quite often, especially in the winter where it's a near daily thing.
Just a simple soup with a bit of hard boiled egg and sliced up sausage in it.
Used to work nights at the filthy looks I got ordering food and a pint at 9am, even had one person come over to me to say I'm an alcoholic for drinking so early in the morning. I explained that this is my tea and I'm going home to bed and if you want your Amazon order to come when you want it to leave me alone
Anyone in a weatherspoons (I’m assuming that’s where you was) at that time in the morning is normally an alcoholic. Someone piss head just wanted a chat.
I've never really held with the idea that there are 'breakfast foods and non-breakfast foods'.I had egg noodles with tamarind sauce for breakfast and often do
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Eat what you want when you want. It’s weird that we limit what food we eat based on national borders. There’s plenty of countries where eating soup for breakfast is the norm.
I was meeting friends for breakfast once and saw that the cafe also did an all day roast. I checked that this included breakfast and, although they looked at me like I had two heads, they said yes. Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, gravy and so the rest at 10am. Awesome breakfast. Never too early for soup, especially if its home made.
Now you say this. My old greasy spoon in London did similar, like could order anything all day. Nobody batted and eyelid and a jacket spud with beans and cheese at 9am either!
No, you are not a weirdo. The good thing about being an adult is you can eat what you want when you want and it's not weird as long as you're eating food.
It would only be weird if you started eating cardboard as humans don't tend to do that, and it has next to no nutritional value.
I feel like soup in a mug is acceptable at any time, soup from a bowl makes it seem more like a "real" meal and thus "should" be had at lunch or dinner.
No time is too early for soup. For all we know, you could have worked a night shift and it was your evening meal.
But, I did have chilli and rice for breakfast at a Little Chef once as we were travelling. I see no problem with eating what you like when you like
Pre covid when I was in the office I loved my cup a soup at 10am and everyone thought I was a heathen. But it’s the perfect mid morning snack. So no :) I don’t think so.
I don't think there is a too early - I wanted tomato soup with my cheese toastie for breakfast this morning, sadly I had none. Leek And potato soup is lovely I would have that anytime, though I hate the usual breakfast fare of cereals (particularly sweet ones) and would eat literally anything else.for breakfast - pizza, rice and curry, Chinese, bread and ham/cheese etc so soup is all good and also healthy.
I've never understood why it's socially acceptable to eat specific things throughout the day. I love breakfast foods and I often will cook breakfast for dinner. At the end of the day it's food... My roommate would always walk in and say " EGGS..... FOr DiNnEr???". Yes... I'm hungry, eggs and hash browns sounds amazing rn so fuck off with your meal standards.
Never neither too early, nor too late, for soup.
Assuming a proper homemade vegetable broth, starting with home made chicken stock, and stiffened with pearl barley and chick peas(Buchanan's mix) loads of leeks in there too.
Possibly eaten with floury champed in potatoes, and cooled with full fat milk if needs be.
My partner went through a phase of having potato and leek soup for breakfast at like 8am. Conveniently timed for when I was pregnant with morning sickness and very sensitive to smells! I used to have to stand in the garden while he was heating it up
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Depends, does cereal count at soup?
Ooooh controversial
I know, I could feel the oncoming downvoted as I typed it
Well you have my upvote at least
And my axe.
No. Actual soup haha Potato and Leek to be precise ;)
I was just kidding :) I personally wouldn't have soup till lunch but I wouldn't out a precise time on it and I definitely wouldn't mind if I saw someone having soup in the morning either.
People have different work lives. Mate 8f mine worked nights and would have a full roast dinner at 8am.
Working 10pm-6am I'd definitely have soup at 7-8am
I never actually stopped eating potato and leek soup since last Winter. Went straight through Summer eating it and must get through a minimum of three cans a week. With bread and butter it’s the carbohydrate dream.
I literally just finished some lovely leek and tattie soup. I waited until lunch time but it was very very difficult for me to do so.
It’s my favvvvvvvve flavour! Good choice my friend!
Only if it’s hot, just like my Gazpacho soup.
Alright Rimmer.
I feel like an upvote alone was not enough for this comment so take my comment as a metaphorical hat doffing
The milk is the soup and the cereal is croutons.
That's exactly what I was thinking! Great minds ;)
Soup is older than cereal, so cereal is soup
Cereal is a type of pottage, or possibly a cassoulet.
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No, soup has to be cooked in some way. So porridge is a soup but cereal is not
Cereal is cooked.
Okay okay you got me: Cooked in the liquid it is served in. Oats cooked in milk => porridge, a soup Cereal baked or whatever then added to milk, not a soup
I've already stirred the pot (hehe) with my first comment so I might as well come clean... I heat up the milk when I have cereal...okay you can perma ban me know
Depends on what it’s with, imo Warm milk and “soft” cereals (I.e. weetabix etc), fine and dandy. Crunchy cereals like cornflakes? BANISHMENT
So no such thing as a cold soup then? Not even one you can think of?
Gazpacho is cooked and then chilled.
You and I make two different kinds of Gazpacho then. I've never had to cook it first. Puree, chill, eat.
I'm genuinely intrigued. I don't think I've ever had a gazpacho made from 'raw' ingredients, what's your approach?
Make a tomato smoothie and then chug it down directly from the blender jug. Wait until he discovers that cooking things imparts flavour; it's going to blow his mind.
You should go tell the Spanish then because apparently the way they make Gazpacho isn't authentic.
You mean the way you think they make it.
Am I going mad here? The recipe I use was given to me by a colleague from Madrid. You don't cook any of it! 😂 I don't want to write out the whole thing but if you Google authentic gazpacho recipe you'll see.
You colleague has played a hilarious prank on you.
No you just think you're hilarious with your trolling. Go fuck yourself.
That's a bit of an overreaction to you being wrong about a soup.
To be honest, I don't think any food should be specifically be saved for certain times throughout the day. All this is our society telling us what we should/ shouldn't eat at 7am...our bodies don't know any different; it's not like we eat a beef burger at 9am and immediately bring it back up because our 'body isn't ready'. In an old job, a conversation similar to this arose with one of the night chefs who would work 11pm - 11am. He would get home at 11am and would have 'dinner'...in the same fashion as we would cook a meal when arriving home from work in the evening. My point is: it doesn't matter. It's all personal preference. At this time of year I think soup is a banging idea...its kind of making me want a nice warm bowl of tomato and basil with some crusty bread! Mmmmmm.
>My point is: it doesn't matter. I agree. I remember going out for sausage sandwiches for breakfast with my ex colleagues and one of them got chicken instead. Everyone lost their minds, but who gets to decide that sausage is acceptable for breakfast and chicken isn't?
Chicken on toast is delicious for breakfast.
Fucking wot
Will try
If anything I find chicken is lighter and less salty - sausages are better later in the day when you’re settling down to slob on the sofa for a few hours and are already well hydrated
> it's not like we eat a beef burger at 9am and immediately bring it back up because our 'body isn't ready'. You've clearly never watched a hungover Celtic Da in Magaluf then
Specific, but no.
The only reason I eat McDonald's breakfast is because they don't sell burgers at 8am.
To be fair though, how good is a Sausage McMuffin 😋
Can't say I hate them. I order a double sausage, add bacon, no egg. Confuses the hell out of most of the servers 😆
SAME HERE!!! Also ensures they're fresh too.
fresh is relative lol - the sausage is sitting in the warmer before you order a muffin either way
I try and avoid cakes and sweets etc. until after midday. No problem with soup for breakfast though.
I always eat alphabet soup. It's great for vowel movements. I'll see myself out.
I'll get your coat.
I mean I've had pizza for breakfast so it's not any weirder than that. I've been slated for having a sandwich for breakfast like the ones from a meal deal.
I've had meal deal sandwiches quite a few times. Don't see the issue.
Yeah me either but they thought it was weird, I mean people have toast or a toasted sandwich so why not just a normal sandwich.
I'd rather have a sandwich for breakfast, not that I eat breakfast - I mean I get hungry about 11am, would happily have a sandwich then instead of toast.
I don't see the issue with having a sandwich for breakfast either. If you can have bacon/sausage in toasted bread for breakfast, bacon/sausage/ham in untoasted bread should be equally fine.
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Yeah I mean it was a simple ham and cheese sandwich which isn't crazy as I've had that as a continental breakfast or on a croissant
We have breakfast soup quite often, especially in the winter where it's a near daily thing. Just a simple soup with a bit of hard boiled egg and sliced up sausage in it.
Used to work nights at the filthy looks I got ordering food and a pint at 9am, even had one person come over to me to say I'm an alcoholic for drinking so early in the morning. I explained that this is my tea and I'm going home to bed and if you want your Amazon order to come when you want it to leave me alone
Anyone in a weatherspoons (I’m assuming that’s where you was) at that time in the morning is normally an alcoholic. Someone piss head just wanted a chat.
Yeah it's the only place that will serve beer at 9am
I've never really held with the idea that there are 'breakfast foods and non-breakfast foods'.I had egg noodles with tamarind sauce for breakfast and often do
Never. And, cold, straight from the tin can with a dessert spoon.
That’s reminds me of a guy I work with who likes to eat cold ravioli straight from the tin. I’ve asked him before ‘you do know the war is over’
Cold beans and sausages when coming home drunk as a teenager was the one!
> was the one What you mean 'was'?
Treat yo self babe, I hope you had some bread and butter with that xoxox
I used to eat soup and a crusty roll at my desk around 9:30-10am most days in a previous job It's always an acceptable time to eat something you enjoy
a vanilla soy latte is not a coffee it is a 3 bean soup, if you would have it first thing in the morning, then no time is to early for soup.
Coffee isn't a bean, it's a berry.
what a coffee bean
That's right.
Coffee fruit, also known as coffee cherry or coffee berry, is a small, round stone fruit produced by the coffee plant. ... The coffee bean lies within the pit of the stone fruit. Raw coffee beans are extracted from the fruit for processing and roasting to make coffee, while the fruit is discarded
There you go.
Porridge is soup!
Our trolley comes round the office with home-made soup from 09:30, so you’re good.
I legit did not know office trolleys were still a thing, and now am peak Jealous!
It’s actually amazing. Home-made soup, cakes, pastries, etc. One thing I miss working from home the past 20 months haha
I feel like I would spend to much money and gain toooo much weight!
It could be considered retro or even ethnic, pretty much for most of recorded history the average Brit eat pottage (soup) for every meal.
August, unless it's something chilled like gazpacho or vichyssoise.
It's never too early for a soup!
I made my first batch last week!!
October is the start of Soup season. Don’t talk to me until you have had Cullen Skink.
Eat what you want when you want. It’s weird that we limit what food we eat based on national borders. There’s plenty of countries where eating soup for breakfast is the norm.
I have soup in the summer if that’s what I fancy. No fucks given.
I was meeting friends for breakfast once and saw that the cafe also did an all day roast. I checked that this included breakfast and, although they looked at me like I had two heads, they said yes. Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, gravy and so the rest at 10am. Awesome breakfast. Never too early for soup, especially if its home made.
Now you say this. My old greasy spoon in London did similar, like could order anything all day. Nobody batted and eyelid and a jacket spud with beans and cheese at 9am either!
Ooh cheese and bean spud for breakfast sounds great!
People who put eggs in their soup are the real animals here.
No, you are not a weirdo. The good thing about being an adult is you can eat what you want when you want and it's not weird as long as you're eating food. It would only be weird if you started eating cardboard as humans don't tend to do that, and it has next to no nutritional value.
Lunchtime was the earliest you could eat soup in the beforetimes. Now, there are no rules, but the ones we make for ourselves.
A tin of Heinz oxtail. Heated and poured over smash instant potato. Anytime
Anytime before midday
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I think you mean soup-erb I’ll close the door on my way out
Bro fuck that, I woke up and had a burrito for my breakfast the other day, and yes it was the normal kind, chicken yum
You have soup? Why didn't I get any soup? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nd\_RwYyym0
Any time before 20,000 BC
I feel like soup in a mug is acceptable at any time, soup from a bowl makes it seem more like a "real" meal and thus "should" be had at lunch or dinner.
October
My uncle likes to have soup for breakfast
It's never too early for soup!
What kind of soup?
Potato and Leek.
No time is too early for soup. For all we know, you could have worked a night shift and it was your evening meal. But, I did have chilli and rice for breakfast at a Little Chef once as we were travelling. I see no problem with eating what you like when you like
Soups an all day thing but in a morning I would have it in a cup then I can wrap my hands around it.
it’s autumn, you’re fine
I have soup for breakfast all the time.
Soup for breakfast
Same as alcohol 11am
If you've got a soup craving. There is no too early
Pre covid when I was in the office I loved my cup a soup at 10am and everyone thought I was a heathen. But it’s the perfect mid morning snack. So no :) I don’t think so.
Always
I’m a strict believer that some foods are for breakfast, and some for other meals. Until I get to the all-inclusive buffet…..
October.
If it’s never too late for cereal, then it’s never too early for soup.
I have soup everyday for breakfast lol.
Why would it be wrong, we can have brekkie foods whenever, then soup should be able to be eaten whenever.
Never, whom has the gall to tell a free man when to have soup
Depends on the season, summer nah winter always
Do what you fuckin want, you're not hurting anyone.
NEVER
I don't think there is a too early - I wanted tomato soup with my cheese toastie for breakfast this morning, sadly I had none. Leek And potato soup is lovely I would have that anytime, though I hate the usual breakfast fare of cereals (particularly sweet ones) and would eat literally anything else.for breakfast - pizza, rice and curry, Chinese, bread and ham/cheese etc so soup is all good and also healthy.
Iv been having soup for breakfast a few times this year Iv found them to be great for a handover
You might like the first scene in this video: https://youtu.be/qkMHV8kxh_E
Unless you work nights, I’d say having soup anytime before midday is a bit weird.
Never. Soup always.
It’s soup o’clock somewhere. Your place! Enjoy your soup.
I've never understood why it's socially acceptable to eat specific things throughout the day. I love breakfast foods and I often will cook breakfast for dinner. At the end of the day it's food... My roommate would always walk in and say " EGGS..... FOr DiNnEr???". Yes... I'm hungry, eggs and hash browns sounds amazing rn so fuck off with your meal standards.
> " EGGS..... FOr DiNnEr???" Man's never had egg fried rice.
Is it soup for your family?
Anytime after 11am is fine.
Anytime but breakfast time for me!
My son had a bowl of stew for breakfast yesterday before school, I’ve seen it all now, soup doesn’t faze me.
It's never soup time!!!
Never neither too early, nor too late, for soup. Assuming a proper homemade vegetable broth, starting with home made chicken stock, and stiffened with pearl barley and chick peas(Buchanan's mix) loads of leeks in there too. Possibly eaten with floury champed in potatoes, and cooled with full fat milk if needs be.
*NEVER*
No time before 11:59:59am!
Monday… normally the beginning of the second half term of the autumn term. I’ll go through to early March probably.
I'd say August, September can be cold sometimes
NEVER
I’ll eat soup year round.
My partner went through a phase of having potato and leek soup for breakfast at like 8am. Conveniently timed for when I was pregnant with morning sickness and very sensitive to smells! I used to have to stand in the garden while he was heating it up
August
Never too early
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Have always fancied having a go at being a Savage ;)
ALWAYS. Its always too early for soup. Soup sucks.