I went to the cafeteria with my friend to scout around for something to eat for lunch. Their food is not usually very good (or very healthy for that matter), so we don’t go there much.
The two soup tureens are stacked one in front of the other, but the front tureen spot was empty. The soup display usually has two covers- one for each tureen that is a hinged half-lid with a notch for the ladle to stick out and a plexiglass cover above both tureens which makes it hard to navigate the tall ladles sometimes.
My friend and I were trying to check out the only tureen there, the one in back. We opened the lid, stirred the soup around and pulled the ladle up to see what kind of soup it was. The tureen was only about half full and the plexiglass lid makes pulling the ladle up sort of tricky. Anyway, we pulled the ladle up and saw some not very attractive greenish grey soup. I waved my hand to pull the scent our way and we identified the soup as split pea.
Bleh.
We moved on the the other counters. While there, a lady started yelling something to the server about the soup. The server stopped serving and quickly ran out form behind the counter and took the split pea soup back into the kitchen. Soon, she returned with another soup tureen and placed in the the previously empty, forward positioned tureen spot. I supposed the lady was yelling that the suop was old and wanted some fresh soup.
My friend and I saw that there was some new soup and decided to check it out. Hey! It’s not split pea, but what is it?
We stirred the ladle around and pulled it up to the top. It seemed to have some small pastas and some meatballs and some kale looking leaves. My friend turned to ask the name of the soup when the lady started yelling at the server again. Something about 'contaminated ’ soup. The server quickly ran out from behind the counter and took the soup away again. Then, the lady started yelling at us!
“You can’t smell the soup! You can’t pull the soup up like that! You are contaminating the soup!” Etc, on and on and on. She was yelling and waving her arms- she was very strangely over exicted and causing quite a scene.
My friend and I just left.
We went back later and told the server that we did not ‘contaminate’ the soup. We were just inspecting it to see what kind it was, and that the lady was serioiously overreacting to what we had done.
The server said she was sure we didn’t contaminate the soup and that that lady has caused problems in there before over food issues.
So, since it’s the pit: Fuck you, soup nut.
