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Soup

If there is one fact that everyone in the world knows without exception, it is this: soup is not a meal. Homeless people know this very well, that is why they are always asking to get money for a meal when they could get soup for free in a soup kitchen, because they would rather have a meal than some flavored water with things floating in it. IDEA: You know how they have dessert cocktails that are like vodka flavored with a bunch of dessert shit and something like cherries or hershey's kisses thrown in? Well what about dinner cocktails where they flavor it with chicken bullion and throw in like a piece of celery and maybe a matzah ball for these New Yorkers. They could line the edge with pepper from a pepper shaker and shit. IDEA OVER So homeless people know best: soup is no excuse for a meal. Now there are two exceptions, but one is clam chowder and although it's delicious I don't want to discuss it right now. Interesting story about clam chowder though: Manhattan Clam Chowder first appeared in New England but got the name because New Englanders hated New Yorkers and so decided to name the terribble chowder after them, or disliked the chowder and decided to name it after the terrible New Yorkers, whichever way you want to look at it. It is true, and recorded here

If you want to insult a cook say their clam chowder tastes like it was made from clam powder.

But... the point is not the chowder.

The point is that pho is delicious, and of course unmatched outside of 75. The thin slices of steak are great but the broth is what Pho 75 does better than anyone else. It is not an overpowering taste, but what it is is damn good.

Now there is this other kind of soup, which if you were an asshole you would call "faux pho", but I don't use words like "faux", and it is called udon. People had been talking about this and making huge deals about it, so I tried some that someone had gotten, and it was extremely unimpressive. The broth was not good.