Another vegetarian potluck tale Way way back in the late seventies I lived in a “collective” house with a bunch of guys. Everyone was responsible for one dinner a week, vegetarian of course, some of us took this very seriously and made wonderful meals but the youngest guy, Chris, who had no money or time, once scrounged around the cupboard and found apples and whole wheat noodles added just wate rand made what he called apple noodle soup. It was really really inedible, it hung around the kitchen for a few days until someone decided to pour it into a loaf pan and throw it into the freezer, Throughout the next winter we would make jokes about “the apple soup” like: “ if we get snowed in we can always hit Chris over the head with the apple soup and eat him - you get the idea. Months later in the spring, two of my other housemates are talking about attending the local food Co-ops monthly pot-luck, they hadn’t made anything but they wanted to go and get a free meal, suddenly somebody shouts “the apple soup, the apple soup! we’ll take the apple soup !!” I was horrified but as I wasn’t going, I couldn’t very well stop them. They brought back the empty loaf pan and claimed it was eaten. So if you encountered a strange frozen apple whole wheat noodle thing at a food co-op potluck in in the late seventies - this is the story.
