And why not?

Because it would remind me of school dinners onion soup ;-)

You had soup at school?

There's posh!

Well, lass, to as young and innocent as you, maybe. But to someone
of my era and background, not quite!

Er - Nick I suspect that you have the wrong impression of my era (pre war)
and my background (from a labourer's family)!

And I'm certainly not innocent!

At the other end of the scale from posh, soup is traditionally used
for the following purposes:

snip

I know all that - and I still do it but to better effect than was possible
In Those Days.

To this day, I can remember those soups. Actually, I didn't mind them
much, though I wasn't keen on almost unflavoured flour paste, but posh
they weren't!

No - but it would have been posh to have had soup as a first course, as Kay
understood.

Actually our wartime school meals were in some ways better than some of the
ones at home, there was always meat. My mother made stews with cowheel. But
somehow she always managed a roast on Sundays. And we ate a lot of rabbit
stew, my brother and I fought over the tongue and brains so much that she
took to cutting the head in half.

Oh! Sorry, this isn't the right ng is it! thought I was on f+d for a few
minutes ...

Mary


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.