# I contaminated the soup?! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 27, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700 "2007-09-27T17:01:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/21 "2007-09-27T18:58:59Z")
This whole thread cracks me up, especially the parts about them running in and out to change the tureen. Bad **Ca3799**! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/22 "2007-09-27T19:13:46Z")
[QUOTE=Taber] Why pour it into a new tureen? [/QUOTE] There’s a mystery _shrouding the tureen?_ ---
**Author:** ![Sanity\_Challenged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sanity\_Challenged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sanity_Challenged)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/23 "2007-09-27T19:31:39Z")
Was it quantum soup? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/24 "2007-09-27T19:36:47Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] Split pea, more like _spit_ pea, am I right?? You know what I’m saying?? [/QUOTE] Probably watched _Fight Club_ the night before. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/25 "2007-09-27T19:40:01Z")
[QUOTE=Sanity Challenged] Was it quantum soup? [/QUOTE] Excellent! I see you are a guest here. That sort of post will get you an invite to stay. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/26 "2007-09-27T19:50:08Z")
[QUOTE=Ca3799] 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. [/QUOTE] That wasn’t split pea…that was Cream of Phlegm soup! :eek: I could see this whole incident being part of David Letterman’s show…“What soup is that?” where David and Paul are just going down to the cafeteria by their stage and doing exactly what the OP and friend were doing. Get the resident angry bitch to be the germiphobe. Yeah, I’d watch that. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/27 "2007-09-27T19:53:50Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] _“Waiter, there’s sebum, subaceous glands and follicles in my soup.”_ [/QUOTE] Mmmmm…sounds yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/28 "2007-09-27T20:08:25Z")
Sloe Neusday reminded me of the lady I saw in the grocery store one day, complaining loudly about other people’s rudeness while at the same time selecting bagels by turning each one over in her hand and then putting it back. Eeww. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/29 "2007-09-27T20:20:54Z")
Why do places cater to recurring nuisances? She’s a toxic customer. Her histrionics will cost more in sales than she gives (such as with you and your friend). Managers - you can get rid of bad customers. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/30 "2007-09-27T20:23:52Z")
[QUOTE=cher3] The second one was Italian Wedding soup, by the way. [/QUOTE] That’s what the cafeteria lady said! (You don’t work in my cafeteria, by and chance, do yo?) ( I actually liked the look of it, but I let my friend talk me out of buying some…And soon it was gone.) ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/31 "2007-09-27T20:26:03Z")
I guess I should mention the soup nut was one of the Doctors and this is the hospital cafeteria. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/32 "2007-09-27T20:31:55Z")
[QUOTE=Ca3799] That’s what the cafeteria lady said! (You don’t work in my cafeteria, by and chance, do yo?) ( I actually liked the look of it, but I let my friend talk me out of buying some…And soon it was gone.) [/QUOTE] Too bad . . . homemade Italian wedding soup is nummy. (Don’t bother with the canned stuff. Way way WAY too much salt.) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/33 "2007-09-27T20:46:31Z")
[QUOTE=Sanity Challenged] Was it quantum soup? [/QUOTE] No soup, radio. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/34 "2007-09-27T21:09:14Z")
Perhaps she noticed **Autolycus** putting the ladle back? ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/35 "2007-09-27T21:37:31Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Well, dude, you looked at it! That’s like sticking your whole face in it! [/QUOTE] Uhmmm… Quantum Mechanics meets the nephew of George Costanza’s one-time girlfriend? 😃 * * * True Blue Jack ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/36 "2007-09-27T22:02:47Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Perhaps she noticed **Autolycus** putting the ladle back? [/QUOTE] Ever notice how often peas go through your digestive tract basically untouched? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/37 "2007-09-27T22:09:18Z")
When I have dinner at your house I am _so_ not having the corn chowder. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/38 "2007-09-27T22:26:08Z")
[QUOTE=Sloe Nuesday] Unsanitary people never recognize their problem. So just get used to people yelling at you “for no reason”. [/QUOTE] Do you think the OP is lying/misrepresenting what happened? Or if you believe it happened as s/he said, can you explain how it is unsanitary to **look** at soup? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/39 "2007-09-27T23:07:00Z")
Reminds me of one time when I was in the cafeteria at work. I was recovering from a cold, but I try very hard to be considerate about it. Anyway, I had my food and was walking to my table when I had to sneeze. Since my hands were full, I buried my face in my elbow - perfectly acceptable, since my mouth was at least as covered as it would have been if I’d used my hands. A lady who was walking at least ten feet behind me carrying her lunch said, quite loudly, “My food!” while glaring at me. She was obviously convinced that my cold germs had rebounded off my elbow and flew at her, mutating along the way into something much deadlier. My wife observed the whole thing, and now “my food!” in a mock outraged voice is her standard response whenever I sneeze. Aaahhh…good times. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700/40 "2007-09-27T23:09:26Z")
[QUOTE=Litoris] Oh, my GODS! Seriously WTF were you thinking, _looking_ at the soup? I bet you didn’t just \*look \* at it, you **leered** at it. Pervert. [/QUOTE] Sometimes, when a soup is really hot, you just can’t help yourself. You know? Enjoy, Steven [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-contaminated-the-soup/420700.md?page=3)