And you can take that flippin' celery with you, too!

[amanuensis1]

Did you know that if you google, "chicken soup 'without carrots'", the links you get are all along the lines of, "I can't imagine chicken soup without carrots," or "what is chicken soup without carrots?" The kind I freakin' like, that's what it is. Bah.

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[_hannelore]

Celery is pretty much an abomination.

[amanuensis1]

There are some vehement celery haters out there, I know. I don't actually hate the taste--I like raw celery once you stuff it with delicious things like cream cheese or peanut butter or blue cheese--but in principle I hate it if you try to stick it into Chinese food and pretend it's bok choy. GET. OUT.

And I just like my chicken soup naked. Take your "homestyle" and begone.

[_hannelore]

Maybe I just haven't had the *right* kind of celery!

To be honest, I have a hard time being around chicken soup because it always make me think of being ill. :/ But I hope you find the good kind!

[amanuensis1]

Ugh, don't you just detest the "maybe you just haven't had the RIGHT kind" people? As if in our lives all the versions we've tasted were part of a conspiracy to keep the good kind away from us. (Caveat: yes, I do know that you can perhaps prepare something in a way that'll make it acceptable. And that there might be a less-common version of a food that is actually tastier than its common counterparts. But that's different, isn't it, from the sanctimonious "you haven't had the RIGHT kind!" pronouncement. Argh.)

[jamoche]

Searching with "-carrots" seems more promising.

[amanuensis1]

I did try that! Unfortunately that seemed to get me links like "10 chicken soup recipes" where the word "carrots" didn't actually appear there but appeared in every one of the 10 recipe links. Sigh.

[jamoche]

Yeah, for all Google brags about improving their search engines, recipes still elude it. I've been trying to figure out what I use a Christmas gift of several kinds of salted nuts for, and all I get are recipes to make them, not incorporate them.

But I found this one that looks interesting: http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/spicy-healthy-chicken-soup

[amanuensis1]

Oooooh, kabocha squash, too! My favorite! I hope stores start carring kabocha squash more often.

[tripperfunster]

Clearly you don't know how to eat soup!

Now peas? Those things can fuck off. ;)

[amanuensis1]

I hated all the "kid" vegetables when I was a kid--carrots, peas, corn. But I liked nearly all the ones I wasn't supposed to like--broccoli, cauliflower, turnips. I eventually turned around on peas but carrots still taste kinda sweet-rotten to me.

[secretsolitaire]

This post cracked me up, even though I don't really feel one way or the other about carrots in soup. :D

[amanuensis1]

What? No opinion on it? A pox on thee! ^_^

[gmth]

I agree, cooked carrots are just... wrong.

[amanuensis1]

It is possible to cook carrots in a way that I don't notice them, or actually make me like them (see: Moroccan carrots cooked with wine and sugar and raisins...dunno what it is but the wine just drowns that rotten taste out of 'em). But I have this wish for carrots to be a more polarizing vegetable and yet they're EVERYWHERE in food, as if they were NORMAL. WHAT.