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According to Mister Woppit, today is International Invent A Horrible Soup Day.

I’d not heard of this day before, but that doesn’t mean much. I’m sure many of you haven’t heard of some of the wacky days fracas celebrates. Days like Talk Like a Pirate Day, or Pi Day (for example). Why, this past Pi Day… I even gave gifts!

When I received (via my fuel votes) word of today’s celebratory event, I immediately knew what I had to do, and Debbie Marklove be damned… I was going to cook. 

Having always been a fairly decent cook, I wasn’t sure if I was up to this challenge. Deliberately make something bad? How could I, a self-respecting mom of Ukranian descent, make bad food on purpose? I decided to scour the internet for ideas first. Surely I’d find something to help me get started.

I wasn’t doing all that well though, because one of the first things I found, was a recipe for “Awful Soup” which, as it turns out isn’t awful soup, but soup named such because it’s awful good.

I printed the recipe and could see where this would lead if I didn’t change direction.

Changing my search terms to “Gross Soup” instead of “Awful Soup” seemed to help and I was reaping the rewards of the new search terms within seconds.. I didn’t spend long, but before you knew it, I’d decided that there was no way I could compete with some of the already-invented, very bad soups out there. I decided instead, to pay homage to those already celebrating this day better than I ever could.

Enjoy. (Or not.)

And Mister Woppit?

I’ll get you for this. I’ve washed my eyes three times and can still see that damn Scorpion Soup.

Soup A = Alien Feet Soup (Chicken and Peanut)
Soup B = Scorpion Soup (Oh.. my eyes…)
Soup C = Duck Blood Soup (Mmm, can you say H5N1?)
Soup D = Goat Lung & Red Pepper Skewer (Dog Brain Soup available here too…)