food for thought

back to the topic of choice. some little while back, a fellow food-and-cookin' fan and i had a go watching BBC's 50 things to eat before you die hosted by the ever-animated Ainsley Harriot. now i won't uncover the lid to THE thing voters pick amongst the comforting, exotic, or winning foods (the question is, can you guess?? be warned - clicking the link reveals the answer), but i had a think about what i would have liked dished out to me for the very last time. and it occured to me, slick as a back of a wok, that...

when it boils down to it, i don't know that walloping is the way to go on my way out. i can think of a couple or three other more transcending things i'd rather do as final activity. and i much doubt they come served on a dish. or do they?

but so as not to scar the young, if eating [ food ;P ] weren't the last last thing i did but i could still pick the last thing i were to, i'd have to say i'd choose soup.

see now, my well hidden [cuz i dress good] pouch didn't come without my fair share of work. i had to earn it okay! so from the tender age i could live on solids, i turned my nose up to vast amounts of food [not to the food, to vast amounts] and slurped my way into bellyheaven. lotus root, white radish, red wine, herbal, you name it, i drank it. except maybe the sei keok sehh [direct translation being "four legged snake" for iguana - really, i can't decide which is worse] and "chicken" [try AND the deliberately left unmentioned dried frog and seahorse] ones i was forced at canepoint into swallowing and will forevermore remain traumatised from.

those sucky exceptions aside, soup is definitely a worthy* choice. particularly any asian variety. just think tomyum, shark fin, kambing, szechuan, laksa... gimme any one of 'em and i'll bow out steamin'!


*the case for soup, OR the top thought on soup
1. not jelak-ing like fried or oily foods
1. not sickly like sweet foods (where drink is usually a necessary accompaniment)
1. not literally bulking like carbo, which can lead to the uncomfortable "stuffed" dilemma
1. can contain all sorts of yummy bits like meat or seafood or veggies
1. can be eaten with noodles or rice, for those who must have carbo
1. served piping hot yippidyyay
1. you won't die thirsty
1. caresses the throat
1. be gone energy-draining, tiresome chewing, oh my dying jaw
1. soup is a sexy food
1. doesn't leave annoying bits behind between teeth
1. your tongue can savour all the wonderousness of soup at the same one time (none of that front salty-back bitter crap no more)