Card That Soup – The Weird Side of the Internet

Card That Soup – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

I think we all know what the “5 Minute Rule” is. If it hits the ground, you got a timer on you. But that’s just drops on floors. What’s the rule on a pastrami on rye who happen along in your travels, there in the open air. Do you chance it?

I chance a lot of stuff. I eat most salmon raw, which I thought was cool, but someone popped that bubble. Never got sick off it, but maybe my parasites are the stealthy kind, who knows. Needless to say, I’m not really particular. But what you say to having some 49 year old soup?

In the Asakusa district in Tokyo, there is a restaurant called Otafuku, and they have a cauldron of soup that’s been gently simmering since 1945.

The soup is stored at night, heated up during the day, dispensed and replenished. It’s kept hot enough to kill bacteria. So kill the germs and keep the cauldron full, and you could have the same soup going for decades.

People say the core flavor is unique and hard to explain, but great. And that’s one restaurant. In Japan, one soup lasted from the 1500s to World War Two. A four-hundred year old soup. Our city of Albany was Dutch chicken coops when that soup was already decades old. George Washington could have slurp there. I mean they probably had some fort of Valley ForgeDash.

Just think of who you would be sharing a meal with. All of the politics of that community over the years. Because it’s definitely the power broker in that area. They must have the dirt, or “the soup” on like half of Japan.

I’ll leave you with the fact that some little part of the original ingredients could or could not be there, so you may or may not catch a Victory carrot.

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