Pride and Prejudice crew downing “white soup” at the ball at Netherfield. It is also associated with poverty—think soup kitchens, think Charlie Bucket’s family, pre-chocolate factory, subsisting on cabbage soup.
In contemporary times, you would think soup which is said to have healing powers, would be lionized. Instead, we mock it. “LOLOLOL just eating soup alone on a Friday night,” you might text your friend, from a pit of self-loathing that you hope seems charming.
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