I get why things like hot dogs or bratwurst are readily available as streetfood, it's logistically easy - but so is soup! You need like a pot, maybe two if you're getting crazy with it, maybe some bread rolls and that's it. It's cheap to make, cheap to buy, you could get hot soup on a cold day to warm you up or something like a gazpach or okroshka on a cold day to have a chilling meal. They're stupidly easy to make, all the ingredients basically cost zilch, very easy to adjust for all kinds of different dietary needs if you offer some sort of toppings optionally instead of throwing it all in there.

So why isn't there more soup? It's a style of meal you can find in basically any cuisine yet in all my travels I remember like two instances where I could just get a soup. What drives streetfood and why is soup shafted?

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (9 children)

everyone in here is wrong

a decent waterproof disposable bowl plus a spoon is much more expensive than the wrappings you give finger foods. and they gotta be nice, i don't care how nice your soup is, if the container i got it in starts leaking or i get burnt i'm not having a good time

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago (8 children)

When I did eventually find streetfood soup I was just given what is basically your standard waxed paper soda cup except not filled to the top so you could hold it there and a flat wooden spoon which supermarkets here sell for like 0,30€ for their salads and that worked out fine.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (7 children)

gotta get 3 coffee cups of soup for a full bowl ooooooooooooooh

if you wanted to be really wacky, only serve fine (as in the granularity) soups and don't give people spoons at all. put a lid on it and it's savory warm smoothie beverage

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

All of south east Asia and a bunch of places in south America have street soup, even chunky ones. As far as I know many of them use polystyrene or paper containers.

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