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Why does tomato soup taste better in winter?

December 11, 2009 by JD
Filed under: Musings 

And now, for something totally different than what I’ve been writing about lately.

I like soup.

I prefer to drink soup from a cup rather than eat it from a bowl using a spoon, unless it is full of big chunks of meat.

When I’m eating soup with a spoon, I enjoy the slurping sound I make when I’m trying to eat it before it’s really cooled down. I like my soup hot and I’ve been known to microwave it half through to heat it back up.

I don’t like cold or even cool soup.

My taste for soup changes depending upon the weather. When it’s warm outside, I prefer chicken noodle soup or cream of chicken.

However, when the temperature drops outside and my fingers and toes start to ache from the cold, there is only one soup I crave and that is tomato soup. I love tomato soup in the cold of winter, but can’t stand it the rest of the year.

I wonder why that is.

I don’t really like tomatoes.

I don’t like raw tomatoes, except when they’re on a hamburger or chicken sandwich. I will eat them in a salad, sometimes.

I like lasagna and spaghetti, but don’t eat either of them more than once or twice a year.

Tomatoes just don’t play an important part in my diet.

I’m craving tomato soup.

But, even so, yesterday and today I’ve been craving a hot cup of tomato soup. Yesterday, I treated myself to tomato soup and a baked chicken sandwich for lunch and enjoyed every bit of it.

I don’t normally eat lunch. Usually, I try for a good breakfast and then a good dinner, but lunch tends to leave me sleepy and non-productive for the next couple of hours.

That’s what happened yesterday. I worked for five or six hours and ate my delicious lunch. Then, I didn’t feel like doing anything and took a long nap for almost three hours.

Today, like yesterday and the day before, I feel like I’m running a low-grade fever with the itchy eyes, runny nose, and lack of energy. It doesn’t seem to be getting any worse and I don’t really feel sick, just not quite up to par.

So, can you guess what’s on my mind? That’s right. I’m looking forward to a hot cup, or maybe even two cups, of tomato soup this evening. I don’t know what I’ll have with it, but that doesn’t seem to be all that important. I’m looking forward to hot tomato soup on a cold day.

I wonder why that is.

What about you?

Does your taste in soup change with the season and the outside temperature?

Whatever you like during this time of the year wherever you live, enjoy some soup today!

;)

All the best,

JD

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