Soup kitchen queues grow as US teeters on brink of new downturn

yellowmonkey

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wonder what flavour soups they have in soup kitchens... it'd be awful to be starving, get there and find they only have the one you hate.

Dont ever post here but that did make me chuckle. Thank you :T

ym

Snooze

dopester wrote: »

At least in the US the citizen knows they have to put by for themselves in the good times. That the safety net is minimal and not permanent.

I'd be grateful for soup-kitchens in the same situation, if I hadn't saved in the good times and if I'd been reckless with my decisions such as speculating on property, or indulging in total consumerism.

Free food. The US has a much better chance of seeing a recovery than we do - with more real world logic in place.

Not a cradle-to-grave welfare as over here... rewarding the idle, recklessness, gamblers, speculators, and those who refuse to STR after seeing their homes shoot-up in value. Even the safety net here is not enough for some people now they find the party is over..... with people whining how they've paid in to the system for years..... happy to see the value of their homes treble in 10 years... now they want a citizen's income ! Un-kin-believable. Your expectations need to be sledgehammered.

The money from Labour's party-years has gone. Spent - and even more - borrowed. It has gone in to supporting ever growing counterproductive slum culture, free healthcare, totally expensive wars ect. The rest of us, the prudent and hard-working, aren't here to pay and support every other reckless or idle person's way in life. Want some financial security in life? Then save up for it and stop expecting everyone else to pay your way.

:rotfl::rotfl:

You just don't give up, do you? :rotfl: I'm sure you've got that paragraph saved on your PC ready to copy and paste into every new thread on here.

Rob

bigheadxx

Graham_Devon wrote: »

As soon as QE came out I said this would be a double dip recession.

I didn't honestly know that this looked to be going this way in America though. If so, very interesting times ahead, as if it dips again, do they really have the funds and also, backup from the people / policy makers to fund more bailouts and more incentives?

If not, the dip will find it's own way. Which I personally believe will be down further, sharper and harder. Which is why I wished in thsi country we hadn't meddled so much, as as a lot of us said, it will only prolong the pain, and catch innocent people who listened to the hype.

All the government is doing by meddling is delaying the inevitable until after the next election. There will be a double dip over here because the government has got to take huge amounts of money out of the economy for years to come just to pay back its debt.

People seem to think that government spending is free, they forget that all public spending is done less efficiently than private individual spending and that every time the government spends a pound it is depriving somebody else of that pound somewhere else in the economy.

PasturesNew

StevieJ wrote: »

It will be some type of tomato :eek:

Mushroom, or anything with bacon in it, would be awful.

Mozette

I found cauliflower soup to be unexpectedly nice!

PasturesNew

Mozette wrote: »

I found cauliflower soup to be unexpectedly nice!

It's strange you should mention that one. I had my first cauliflower soup on Friday ... it was cauli/cheese actually. To be honest, it didn't taste a lot different to "random soup flavour", but it certainly made me realise that I don't have to sit down and consume a whole cauliflower somehow every time I buy one... it can take up to a week, using it every meal, to get through one, so some new ideas where it's disguised would be handy.

StevieJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Mushroom, or anything with bacon in it, would be awful.

I love mushroom soup

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's strange you should mention that one. I had my first cauliflower soup on Friday ... it was cauli/cheese actually. To be honest, it didn't taste a lot different to "random soup flavour", but it certainly made me realise that I don't have to sit down and consume a whole cauliflower somehow every time I buy one... it can take up to a week, using it every meal, to get through one, so some new ideas where it's disguised would be handy.

Have you asked on the old style board? They are bound to have some ideas.


Personally, I don't really like cauliflower, and it has a windy effect the next morning which no one else likes.

In terms of soup, you can do much worse than a carcus chicken soup.

carolt

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's strange you should mention that one. I had my first cauliflower soup on Friday ... it was cauli/cheese actually. To be honest, it didn't taste a lot different to "random soup flavour", but it certainly made me realise that I don't have to sit down and consume a whole cauliflower somehow every time I buy one... it can take up to a week, using it every meal, to get through one, so some new ideas where it's disguised would be handy.

You need to try frozen veg.

It's great for cauliflower. Not quite as al dente, but frankly it takes my lot weeks to get through 1 so it must just be a complete waste of space if you're on your own.

Suppose there's those packs of pre-chopped florets....

carolt

StevieJ wrote: »

I love mushroom soup

Totally.

But you know that in reality, you'd end with cauliflower, mushroom, tomato and bacon, as they try to use up all the leftovers... :eek: