Vara
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Why do they taste like **** at home, but transform themselves to an ambrosial nectar on a boat?
Cup a soups
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Searush
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Completely agree.You can make a home made soup with all the kit & ingredients & time at home. On the boat, there are few alternatives & the speed of production when in deserate need makes them a life saver.
MM5AHO
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At sea cup a soup does seem wonderful its true. But so do Fray Bentos pies, canned stew, and partbaked bread, scone mix, and so on...
prv
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On the boat, there are few alternatives & the speed of production when in deserate need makes them a life saver.
Horrible stuff ashore or afloat as far as I'm concerned.
"Few alternatives" perhaps, but this is what I keep on board:
Pete
Neil
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I've always heard that a well known brand of dried soups make a superb product, really tasting like proper soup, for the French/Continental market, but the same brand with the same name is complete rubbish in the UK and Ireland.
I know it's true for coffee; went to Portugal and bought some Nescafe instant and thought "gosh, that tastes like real coffee" Bought another jar of the same back home, and it wasn't the same.
I know it's true for coffee; went to Portugal and bought some Nescafe instant and thought "gosh, that tastes like real coffee" Bought another jar of the same back home, and it wasn't the same.
Fourbees
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I can't cope with Big Soup on rougher passages as it looks too much like vomit.
Searush
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Big soup is OK as a small meal, but a cuppa soup is a good hot drink in a moment if coffee or tea just isn't enough. There's no way one could put a big soup in a mug to drink at the helm. You need a hand for the mug & one for a spoon, so where's the hand for the boat? 
ditchcrawler
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I have been using them for years and have finally settled on Ainsley Harriet's Hot and Sour as the perfect pick me up.I also drink Bovril.
bitbaltic
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The worst imaginable cupa soup is sold by Knorr no less in Denmark and is billed as minestrone. It has got the aroma and flavour of vomit spot on. Would never dare take it to sea. Ainsley Harriot's spicy Mexican soup, though, works a treat on our boat.
bitbaltic
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+1 for Ainsley Harriot and Bovril!
Perry
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You buggers, I just had to go and have an Ainsley Thai Chicken one.
prv
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Hmm, I guess that's the difference. I've never got on with the idea of soup as drink. It's not that I don't like the taste - just as I'm sure you like, say, custard. But if you were on the helm and I passed you up a mug of hot custard to drink, you'd find it a strange experience and not one to be repeated.
Pete
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
If it had chunks of cake in it I think that would be great!
A new product I think.... Custard cups!
With different flavours of cakes bits...
Spotted dick.
Jam rolly polly.
....
Good idea!
A new product I think.... Custard cups!
With different flavours of cakes bits...
Spotted dick.
Jam rolly polly.
....
Good idea!
bitbaltic
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you are on to something. I'd buy it!
photodog
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Cup A Soup Keach - Boak On A Boat
I cant stand Cup a Soup, it causes heart burn, indigestion, flatulence and taste like shit - on a boat or at home. Custard Cups on the other hand sound wonderful but the elements already exist. You can buy lovely, delicious Ambrosia Cream Custard in a tin or plastic tub; coupled with some Jamaica Cake, and your away.
I cant stand Cup a Soup, it causes heart burn, indigestion, flatulence and taste like shit - on a boat or at home. Custard Cups on the other hand sound wonderful but the elements already exist. You can buy lovely, delicious Ambrosia Cream Custard in a tin or plastic tub; coupled with some Jamaica Cake, and your away.
BlueSkyNick
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That's just not the same thing.
PD is talking about a packet of dehydrated chemicals, which look and smell aweful until you pour the hot water into to the mug.
Another vote for Ainsley, but prefer hot chocolate to Bovril.
bitbaltic
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photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
Well I am not sure here... I see from my extensive research into this product that you can already get packets of custard with dried fruit which you then just add hot water...
But how would this work with chunks of cake? Maybe it would be best to have a sealed pot witha self heating element in it... Which would heat up the custard... And then younwould open a second compartment and the cake would drop in....
But if we could come up with some way of separating the cake from the custard until it had been fully mixed up with the hot water... Or having tiny dried cake chunks that maintained some sort of cakeness instead of just turning to mush when the water was added... Then we would be away...
Sidedrum
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I don't turn to the sugar boost when I'm cold, it's cup a soup every time. Preferably with a pappy white bread roll on the side. I've never eaten these at home.
But Ainsley needs to be taken with care - the French Onion is an experience I wouldn't want to repeat. And repeat. And repeat. But the Hot and Sour is fantastic. Batchelor's Minestrone is my other cup a soup of choice.
But Ainsley needs to be taken with care - the French Onion is an experience I wouldn't want to repeat. And repeat. And repeat. But the Hot and Sour is fantastic. Batchelor's Minestrone is my other cup a soup of choice.
