the.com/tomato soup
Pureed proof that ketchup once got a childhood before it got weird.
means A smooth soup made from cooked tomatoes, often blended with cream or stock, eaten hot and usually paired with a grilled cheese sandwich.
from Tomato traces back through French and Spanish to Nahuatl 'tomatl', the Aztec word for the fruit, carried to Europe after contact with the Americas. Soup comes from Old French 'soupe', originally meaning the bread sop soaked in broth before it came to mean the liquid dish itself. Tomato soup as a canned, condensed staple owes its massive popularity to 19th and 20th-century industrial canning, with the Campbell Soup Company's condensed version becoming an enduring cultural fixture — the dish that quietly rehearsed ketchup's flavor before ketchup became a sweeter, weirder condiment.
- botanical joke
- made from a fruit legally ruled a vegetable
- canning icon
- Warhol painted it 32 times, one per flavor
- grilled cheese pact
- exists mainly to be dunked, not sipped
- umami bomb
- natural glutamates rival soy sauce in savoriness