Tag: soup is no

There’s probably a lot to unpack at my psychological aversion to eating soup under most circumstances. 

I was a pretty sick kid. I was in and out of hospitals quite a bit between infancy and about the age of 8. I strongly believe I had cyclic vomiting syndrome, which sounds extremely similar to my experiences but wasn’t a common diagnosis when I was a kid. 

So when I was a kid, soup=sickness and sick days=soup. 

And now the thought of eating soup outside of being sick is just…no. If someone suggests it, I get annoyed, like dude, that’s sick people food. Do I look sick to you? Why do you want me to eat that?

The only exception is broccoli cheese soup. Partially because when it’s good it’s fucking delicious, and partially because it is way too rich for me to tolerate when I’m nauseated, so I’d never think of using it as sick people food.