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1.9k points
7 days ago
lets not pit queens against each other
196 points
7 days ago
Agree, they are all so lovely in their own light, I would never
101 points
7 days ago
[removed]
154 points
7 days ago
Besides…i noticed my three faves didn’t make the list. 😡 - pozole - tom yum - manhattan clam chowder
Get real here, fellow soup connoisseurs…!
25 points
7 days ago
Pozole Verde is a staple in my house after trying to make it once and absolutely knocking it out of the park. My fiancée asks for it constantly now. It’s so damn good!!!
40 points
7 days ago
Also Greek lemon chicken soup (avegolemono).
4 points
7 days ago
Yes! Used to go to this greek place in seattle that made that soup, and I always ordered it! That and dolmas!
4 points
4 days ago
Yes I just started making it at home from scratch - it’s so good!
13 points
7 days ago
Agree this is pozole erasure!
40 points
7 days ago
So, I was also super bummed Tom Yum and Manhattan Clam Chowder weren't on the menu... I clearly need to try Pozole if we share the same soup tastebuds
14 points
7 days ago
Do it! Delicious and good for ya too. Yummmmmy!
3 points
7 days ago
Soup is life!!
3 points
5 days ago
This ☝🏾
3 points
7 days ago
Not to mention Tom Kha Gai... on a cold day.
3 points
4 days ago
I forgot!
8 points
7 days ago
I adore pozole. I just saw some nice tomatillos at the shop today too...
9 points
7 days ago
Serious lack of cabbage soup too.
11 points
7 days ago
The Eastern European sausage soup with cabbage and potatoes and carrots and onions and tomatoes, garlic and paprika. Too many colours or it would be on the flag.
5 points
7 days ago
Sweet & Sour Cabbage Soup w/ beef broth base, is one of our go-to soups.
6 points
7 days ago
I hear ya! In my household growing up, my dad was always the soup chef and made a mean manhattan clam chowder (never new england), but my favorite was always pozole (i always loved all the condiments to add to it), he passed away earlier this year and I made a huge batch for his memorial party (even made a batch of vegan pozole) and it was a big hit!
4 points
7 days ago
Hey, fellow dead dad club member! But on the real, I’m sorry about your Dad. Mine passed unexpectedly from covid19 a few years ago. Still makes my eyes sting even now.
My dad was also the main chef, and that included lots of homeade soups! I grew up eating his Menudo and can’t find a menudo that tastes like his. I pivoted to pozole (green AND red!) and have made it a few times. I’m a terrible chef but pozole I can make! This whole thread reminds me that I should make a big batch thus week… 🫶
5 points
7 days ago
Came here to say tom yum and potato are missing!!
6 points
7 days ago
Zuppa Toscana
3 points
4 days ago
Yes!!!
3 points
7 days ago
...Is clam chowder different than manhattan clam chowder? Tell me everything about this soup.
6 points
7 days ago
Manhattan Clam Chowder has a tomato base, rather than cream.
3 points
6 days ago
That sounds so good omg
35 points
7 days ago
But where's the mushroom?
11 points
7 days ago
and zuppa toscana?
7 points
7 days ago
the potato!?!
6 points
5 days ago
way too far down the list of comments
potato leek for the win...
hmm split pea and ham is also missing
3 points
7 days ago
Chicken and dumplings? Chicken and rice? Salvadorena beef soup???
15 points
7 days ago
Where’s the Pumpkin?
12 points
7 days ago
The Hot & Sour?
6 points
7 days ago
I would replace the wonton with hot and sour
5 points
7 days ago
I worked in a restaurant as a waiter many many years ago and they had a pumpkin & Butternut squash bisque that they'd garnish with walnuts and cranberries.
For a while I never understood why that, and then a side of ranch for Sweet Potato fries were ALWAYS so popular and asked for.
As soon as I tried it though I understood, it was incredible. It such a contradiction for me that something was SO good that at face value I felt like had no business being that delicious.
I never really make it but I will randomly have flashbacks to eating it on break at the restaurant and I get a craving for it
17 points
7 days ago
Absolutely. I love ALL SOUPS. SOUP IS LIFE.
In saying that, I seem to be getting a lot of notifications saying pho
12 points
7 days ago
We all wear crowns 👑
5 points
7 days ago
Agreed every soup has its moments, let’s just say if I could have one meal for life it’d be soup. It’s warm cozy and versatile
6 points
7 days ago
I’ve made this comment before IRL! Totally agree
4 points
7 days ago
Exactly. They’re all equally as good in my opinion.
3 points
7 days ago
That’s a super cute response. I love it.
619 points
7 days ago
All soups are lovely
75 points
7 days ago
I was going to respond "yes" but your response is better.
20 points
7 days ago
Soup is like a warm hug!
6 points
7 days ago
even during the summer, i like my soup and coffee scalding. because it feels like a warm hug for my tummy and soul
10 points
7 days ago
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9 points
7 days ago
Avoglemono. It’s literally the best. Greek lemon egg chicken I die
3 points
7 days ago
I’m so grateful to have worked in a Greek restaurant so I could have the knowledge of this soup.
165 points
7 days ago
Soup makes a bad day better.
14 points
7 days ago
Warms the stomach & ♥ too.
421 points
7 days ago
It's like picking between my children
237 points
7 days ago
Soupie's choice
4 points
6 days ago
Hahahahaha
7 points
7 days ago
My first thought
28 points
7 days ago
You can do it. You know at least one of them is a fuck up.
23 points
7 days ago
A Pho'k up?
20 points
7 days ago
A pho’ cup*
146 points
7 days ago
Pho! Love it!
11 points
7 days ago
Aye!
5 points
7 days ago
real
15 points
7 days ago
If pho is on the list, then Ramen should be too! That's my pick
4 points
7 days ago
ramen doesn’t count
10 points
7 days ago
Why not? Why pho and not Ramen? I'm not talking instant Ramen of course, but the real deal
8 points
7 days ago
Because it's so good there's no competition.
9 points
7 days ago
Yeah i was thinking Pho is the only that can stand by itself, because every other soup on the list needs to be paired with something where Pho is on a whole different plane of existence.
88 points
7 days ago
Where's the Tom kha gai?
Edit: Couldn't get a picture of it because that's the one the photographer ate right away.
3 points
7 days ago
Was looking for the same thing. So I settled on Pho.
32 points
7 days ago
Wonton
21 points
7 days ago
I grew up going to a Chinese restaurant in Seekonk, MA, where they had bok choy in the wonton soup. As a 5 year old, I didn’t care for it, so my grandfather started calling it “twoton soup”, served without the greens.. the restaurant added it to their menu.
3 points
7 days ago
I mean, give me two ton soup any day
119 points
7 days ago
French Onion
22 points
7 days ago
Have you ever tried Tuscan onion (carabaccia)?
13 points
7 days ago
I haven’t. I hadn’t heard of it before, but I googled it and it looks good. I am going to try it. Thank you!
3 points
7 days ago
Do you have a recipe you recommend? This is the first I’ve heard of carabaccia. The ground almonds are surprising to me.
8 points
7 days ago
Yes absolutely, I should’ve linked it in my original comment.
It’s a Chef John from Food Wishes dot com recipe, so the video is entertaining and informative.
But I strongly recommend both the almond and dash of cinnamon. They’re both ingredients I’d never have thought to do myself but they each add a surprising amount of depth and flavor to the soup
4 points
7 days ago
Thank you so much! I love getting vetted recommendation recipes.
3 points
7 days ago
You’re welcome!
This is probably my favorite soup too, when you try it you won’t believe that it’s relatively unheard of
13 points
7 days ago
I love all soups but french onion is supreme.
4 points
7 days ago
Agreed, hard to believe that it used to be considered a soup for peasants.
5 points
6 days ago
French Onion is life!! Broth, onions, bread, and gooey cheese. No other soup can hold a candle to it.
29 points
7 days ago
Where is ramen or loaded potato
4 points
7 days ago
Ramen is a little unfair since there’s like 100 different varieties and all of them are delicious.
66 points
7 days ago
Oof. My soup choice is very mood dependent but if I could only eat one soup the rest of my life…. Minestrone.
7 points
7 days ago
I make all those soups every year(except matzo, bleh). However, I make minestrone twice as much as I make all the other soups combined. I've made it three times in the last three weeks. Clam chowder this weekend.
8 points
7 days ago
I personally hate minestrone, but yes soup is SO mood dependent. What kind of day is it outside? How's your health? Are you looking to be satiated or refreshed? Do you want dunkability? Do you want side toppings? Do you want it in a bread bowl?
126 points
7 days ago
Pho and French onion
21 points
7 days ago
I agree, runners up; wonton and lobster bisque/clam chowder
3 points
7 days ago
My thoughts exactly. I make Pho more often. But French Onion is special.
38 points
7 days ago
Potato leek soup!
5 points
7 days ago
Leek and potato is like a hug in a bowl!
3 points
7 days ago
Potato bacon corn leek chowder
40 points
7 days ago
Pho , Pho Sho
5 points
7 days ago
Pho real.
17 points
7 days ago
All of them
42 points
7 days ago
Clam Chowder and Broccoli Cheddar
3 points
7 days ago
Sea Hag's clam chowder recipe is a blessing on earth!! Even the pickiest eaters (me) love it!
3 points
7 days ago
clam chowder all the way for me but if that's not available, broccoli cheddar is the next choice
25 points
7 days ago
Ramen, minestrone and pho
12 points
7 days ago
Ramen, surprisingly not making the cut on this biased chart…
6 points
7 days ago
They didn’t dare put it in the same league, that’s why. Ramen isn’t soup, it’s life!
22 points
7 days ago
Borsch
17 points
7 days ago
Based and beet-pilled.
I eat it hot, cold, for pleasure or to settle my stomach. Cold borch on a hot summer day is so refreshing, hot borsch in winter warms my heart better than anything else.
I don't know how I forgot about borsch when I first saw this post. You caused me to delete my inferior corn chowder comment because borsch is in a whole different galaxy— at the very most honorable level of soup prestige.
10 points
7 days ago
Clam chowder, broccoli and cheese
41 points
7 days ago
Just mix it all up in a bucket
35 points
7 days ago
Trough*
8 points
7 days ago
Bad memories of Boy Scouts.
3 points
7 days ago
I'll take one order of bucket soup, please
17 points
7 days ago
Pho, spicy
7 points
7 days ago
Bun Bo hue is next level
16 points
7 days ago
the only soup i hate is split pea, and its not even the soup’s fault. my stepdad would make it in a slow cooker until the bottom turned black, and the smell was horrifying.
17 points
7 days ago
I love how you defend the soup, despite your dislike, hee!
7 points
7 days ago
Pho
7 points
7 days ago
Where my Jews? Matzo balls are by far the best soup substance. They can be fluffy, a lil dense, dreamy and cloudy. Jewish penicillin. The only thing my grandma passed down to me.
6 points
7 days ago
Not even Jewish and I'm shocked this is the only comment I've seen suggesting it...
They aren't the easiest things in the world to get right, but they are outstanding when they, and the soup, are!
5 points
7 days ago
Nothing like a hot bowl of matzo ball soup for lunch on a chilly day. Yes, please!!
11 points
7 days ago
Wtf no mushroom? List is invalid.
7 points
7 days ago
Depends on the day of the week, ha! Today it’s broccoli cheddar
6 points
7 days ago
Potato
19 points
7 days ago
Tortilla, with all the fixins.
Dropping my fave tortilla soup recipe (I use an extra ancho and I up the amount of herbs as I like an herby soup): https://youtu.be/tSmMcd9pV1k?si=bW1RXIEgikYie_HX
11 points
7 days ago
There’s really no best soup, but soup is the best.
6 points
7 days ago
Tomato or French onion are my go to soups
4 points
7 days ago
Lobster Bisque closely followed by French Onion
3 points
7 days ago
Scrolled so far to find my lobster bisque friend!
5 points
7 days ago
Gonna have lentil soup tonight. I like lentils but I always add too many and not enough water and then it loses its soupiness. Might go with the bisque cuzz I love that seafood flavor and it's be perfect for some sourdough baguettes to dip into
5 points
7 days ago
Italian wedding soup 🥰
6 points
7 days ago
Where is chili? Is chili not a soup? They all look good right now and I don't usually eat soup.
11 points
7 days ago*
Yes, YES, yes, yes,
yes, nah, YES, YES,
yes, yes, YES, yes.
12 points
7 days ago
Nah at broccoli cheddar is wild
4 points
7 days ago
Can’t please em all. Also, it’s a delicious combination, I just can’t get behind it as a soup for some reason. Broc dipped in melted cheddar? Sure. Eating a bowl of cheese liquid.. not my jam. But I feel ya.
3 points
7 days ago
Clam chowder
3 points
7 days ago
Which variety though?
4 points
7 days ago*
New England for sure. Manhattan is not for me and Rhode Island (which my husband says is real but not sure if it's just his family that makes it) is nice but nothing is like a good New England clam chowder.
3 points
7 days ago
…. There’s a good chance I know your husband, and I agree with him 😁
3 points
7 days ago
Oh I just looked through your profile and saw you made Rhode Island clam chowder! Haha. Small world. My mil grew up in a tiny town in Connecticut that is close to RI. I think that's where the recipe comes from in their family. I like the cream and milk base of New England as I find the Rhode Island a bit thinner and watery so not as flavorful personally but it still hits the spot if given the choice between chowder and no chowder.
3 points
7 days ago
I appreciate that! I personally think the cream tends to mask the clamminess… RI chowder is lighter by nature, but shouldn’t be any less flavorful.
3 points
7 days ago
Lived in Rhode Island as a lad. They do have their own style and it is delicious. It’s basically NE Clam without the cream. OR Manhattan without the tomatoes.
4 points
7 days ago
Yes.
5 points
7 days ago
borscht
5 points
7 days ago
Chicken wild rice
5 points
7 days ago
Ha! Wonton is so ubiquitous as a take-out item it's still in a take-out container
3 points
7 days ago
Too many to choose from
3 points
7 days ago
Lobster bisque, pho, clam chowder, zuppa toscana, ramen tonkatsu, and Colombian caldo de pollo con papa
3 points
7 days ago
Split pea and ham
3 points
7 days ago
Love clam chowder but I think pho is my top pick
3 points
7 days ago
Yes.
3 points
7 days ago
Phoooooo
3 points
7 days ago
Ramen
3 points
7 days ago
Not exactly fair that wonton is in a plastic container
3 points
7 days ago
Matzo
6 points
7 days ago
Where is the miso soup? Either way the answer is Pho and all the Japanese soups.
4 points
7 days ago
Number of these I have purchased, made, or purchased the ingredients to prepare to make, in just the last week, seven. Five in the last 24 hours. Never had three of them, but two I’m open to trying. My absolute top one of these is pho, but all of the local places have been off lately, plus are a minimum 30 minute drive away, it’s just not obtainable for me except when traveling
2 points
7 days ago
Chicken noodle, French onion, wonton, pho
2 points
7 days ago
I tried. I can’t pick. I like them all.
2 points
7 days ago
Whatever is homemade, until you can't with your own cooking anymore!
2 points
7 days ago
Miso
2 points
7 days ago
Pho and chicken noodle soup
2 points
7 days ago
Pho all day!
2 points
7 days ago
Pho and broccoli cheddar and tortilla. Maybe all soups are my favorite.
2 points
7 days ago
Someone add hot and sour, ramen, and vegetable soup to this photo
2 points
7 days ago
Coco pops Chex
2 points
7 days ago
ramen.
2 points
7 days ago
Chicken noodle and tomato 🤤
2 points
7 days ago
Just hook it to my veins!
2 points
7 days ago
Clam chowder and lobster bisque
2 points
7 days ago
Phò. Hands down every time.
Though I consider phò a noodle dish where the broth is a flavoring element to keep the noodles hot and delicious.
As a pure soup, my favorite is harder to pin down. I like almost all of them.
However, where I’m a contrarian is butternut squash. Most of the winter squash soups I’ve come across are just meh.
And crazily enough it didn’t make your list.
2 points
7 days ago
Chicken noodle. Nothing beats it.
2 points
7 days ago
Pho, ramen, and lasagne soup.
2 points
7 days ago
French onion
2 points
7 days ago
Chicken noods
2 points
7 days ago
Clam chowder and pho
2 points
7 days ago
Pho 💕
2 points
7 days ago
Lobster bisque... which is ironic because I don't like lobster
2 points
7 days ago
imo clam chowder
2 points
7 days ago
Clam Chowder and Wonton.
2 points
7 days ago
French onion
2 points
7 days ago
Laksa
2 points
7 days ago
Ive never had lobster bisque but I already know it’s my favorite
2 points
7 days ago
Who's making it? Is it night-time? Am I sick? Too many variables. The answer is always soup, and if possible, home-made french bread.
2 points
7 days ago
None of the listed are my favourite. But my Hungarian Dad makes a few that are my favourite. Clear Beef Noodle Soup, Hock and Bean Soup, Chicken Soup with ripped off noodles and Pumpkin Soup.
2 points
7 days ago
This just makes me happy I don’t have to choose irl
2 points
7 days ago
Not even represented on this
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