魔法のスープ

MY MIND IS BLOWN

Blown up, up, up and away to the land of food heaven where cheese comes ready made from cows and steak grows on trees.

Ok so maybe those things are not available on earth, but something along those spectacular lines is! MAGICAL SOUP. 

soup: my face when.....

As you can imagine, soup in not usually anything to write home about, but as I am literally right now writing home about this one, you know it's special.


Here it is:

looks like a big bowl of dry vegetables right? WRONG!!! This is 'at home soup' and it is gloriously mythical in it's jesus like miracles. I was doubtful at the start about its powers but now i am a believer.

So when I first saw this soup bowl, I only picked it because the shop was so empty it looked like everybody had been disaster shopping and it was the only thing left. After shaking it about to try and make it look a bit more appetising and the contents just flopping about sadly inside, I then glumly took it to the till and prepared to be parted with my hard earned (lol hard-earned) yen.

Upon purchasing my lunch, I was asked the same question as every time you buy something in the convenience store; 'do you want it warmed up?'. I refused and casually mentioned that isn't the premise of soup be to be liquid and as such i'd need to put water in the pot before warming it wouldn't I. They laughed.

open soup pot. note the pale looking noodley thing in the top left.

So, slightly confused, I returned home with my box of flappy bits of vegetable off cuttings and opened it up. I then ummed and ahhed about whether to do as the shop worker said and directly microwave the pot water free, or go with my soup instincts and fill the bowl from the heated kettle.

I caved and lobbed it into the microwave as it was.

As it whirred and span around, smelling of smoke as my microwave usually does, I looked in through the door and shook my head in doubt and the future sadness that would come in the form of my extra dry ruined soup pot.

BUT, to my amazement, I opened the microwave door after 2 minutes and there it was........

SOUP!!!

This confused me even more. I was astounded at the magical water that had appeared suddenly moistened my vegetables. And even more astounded that I had soup at all in the first place. I was so confused that in fact I went and bought another soup box to try making it again with much more prior inspection. My conclusion from observations is as follows: the noodley bits I mentioned in passing earlier disappear when heated and in their place a butt load of water is created.

OR..... it is indeed magical soup.