I feel the same! But it is the husband’s favorite and college boys least favorite. And I was not happy with college boy ![]()
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I remember inviting my friend and her new husband over for a Chinese Take-out Dinner for NYE, and I had ordered won ton soup for 3, egg rolls, and half a dozen other dishes.
We all would have been 28.
Her husband went on about how he hated soup, and that soup was for Old People.
I can’t remember if I pushed back, either on the soup hating or ageism. His wife was clearly embarrassed he was talking this way as a dinner guest, but also as a 3 month bride, almost walking on egg shells and feeling like she had to be a pleaser to both her husband and to me.
We were eating the dinner in my parents’ dining room on our fine China, and I had just spent 90 minutes waiting for the order in an unheated lobby space, because the restaurant had been swamped by orders for NYE. My folks were late for their NYE party because they kept this couple company at our house, while I waited for the takeout at the Restaurant. That was my lesson not to order take-out in London, Ontario on NYE. That would have been NYE 2001.
That couple is still together. I lost touch with the wife around December 2006.
I grew up in a house where everyone enjoyed soup. I went through a leafy salad avoidance phase in my 20s and 30a, but I never avoided soup.
Beautiful! Do I see oysters or mussels in there?


