Things you didn’t know were feminist - No 1.
May 7, 2008 by Polly Styrene
Following on from such burning questions as is BDSM feminist, is pole dancing feminist, and is Jordan feminist, I thought it was time to widen the field a bit and ask what other things could be feminist. And the first thing that I am considering is Heinz Tomato soup. So:
Q. Is eating Heinz Tomato soup feminist?
A. Yes. I am a woman and I think Heinz Tomato soup is absolutely delicious. It is also easy to prepare - open tin, heat - they even have a tab on top now, so you don’t need a tin opener. It therefore fills all the requirements of feminism. Which are 1)A woman, somewhere, likes doing it and 2)It is therefore full of empowerfulmentnessism.
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I could go on forever with this one. But do you drink soup rather than eat it?
Tomato soup, I would say drink.
How DARE you tell me that in order to be a good feminist, I have to eat tomato soup!!! I HATE tomato soup! What are you, the feminist police???????? You can’t tell me I’m a bad feminist just because I like chicken noodle!!!!!! You are so mean, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
The joy of ‘new’ feminism buggle is that chicken soup is also empowering. Indeed most varieties of soup are. Apart from broccoli and anti porn stilton.
Cowblog would also like to stress that it does not favour one variety of soup over another. Soup is impossible to define: it can appear in many different people’s lives in many different ways. Cowblog does not define what soup is but instead allows a place for different soup lovers to share their different opinions and views. The contributors to the site may have opposing views on soup, and that’s fine; it simply demonstrates that soup is a diverse, living and healthy food stuff which is confident enough to question itself. However trans-soup-phobic, homo-soup-phobic and soup- racist comments will not be allowed. (just joking about the last two!)
Soup from a can? Why Polly, life’s too short to indulge in such blandness. You need a hen run, a few sheep, a dog to catch the odd rabbit. Plant some celery, potatoes, cultivate a patch of nettles, leeks, onions, a couple of square metres of carrots - your life will be filled with empowerful soup-stews (see, I’m not trans-soup-phobic).
I would also need something bigger than a 5 x 18 foot (concreted) backyard, methinks….unless the sheep were indoor sheep.
I have always wanted a pet sheep, but I think they’re quite big when you get close up….
I have always wanted a pet sheep, but I think they’re quite big when you get close up….
Cows are even bigger don’t cha know?
Bit of a former country-gal here. Have seen the sheeps and the cows up close and personal.
You could start with something small, like a pet chicken. I had one once. Don’t mention things like chicken soup around her though. Trust issues.
Polly, they also grind their teeth…
Cows do that as well though, they’re ruminants.
HAHAHA, you’re lucky I didn’t spit my water all over my keyboard.
Well, you could all have a ‘grindey teeth’ thing going on - just count me out. I like piglets anywayz.
I don’t consume any soup that was made after the seventies. Only second wave soup for me.
See this is what I hate about you tomato soupists, you completely ignore and therefore undermine the existence of pumpkin soupists like myself. Tomato soupists must be prepared to affirm the politics of the pumpkin soupists among us, otherwise, how dare you call yourself a soupist?
Buggle, your chicken noodle soupism is fully supported by this pumpkin soupist.
Pisaquari, second wave soupism is no longer fasionable. Please get with the times and stop embarrassing all of us trendy, funky, young soupists with your horribly, hairy outdated soupism.
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Sheesh, if it was made in the seventies…
I’ve got a pumpkin in my sink right now, fresh-grown this year and it’s loooking distinctly fluffy.
*note to self*: put veg peelings outside on compost
Polly: start with a lamb. It’ll grow on ya.
(I’m not saying a word about the mess)
what about me! I don’t even like soup. Of any kind! Am I not a feminist? How dare you.
That’s the trouble with groups that are made up of just women - they always start getting bitchy.
But your liking of tomato soup is oppressing me!!! I have a right to like whatever soup I want, no matter how many people/chickens/sheep are hurt in the process of making it!
If I say that chicken noodle fills me with empowerfullizement, then it does. So, shut up with your second wave soupism, you soup prude!
Riddle me this, Batman. Why is that you have Heinz brand tomato soup in England, and we don’t have it in America, when Heinz is an American company?
Maybe they’re marketing the ketchup in England as tomato soup, thinking you guys won’t know the difference, what with eating weird things like beef and kidney pie.
I know. It’s a stupid thing to delurk about.
I’ll just add that polly styrene, you totally rock! I love this blog. Been reading it for a couple weeks now.
“Maybe they’re marketing the ketchup in England as tomato soup, thinking you guys won’t know the difference, what with eating weird things like beef and kidney pie.”
Bonobobabe, we Americans eat SPAM. And no one knows what it is…
SPAM is a traditional viking food Lara….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
Welcome bonobobabe, however it is actually steak and kidney pie that some inhabitants of this sceptred isle consume. However not me because I think offal is awful…
Broccoli and stilton, in my pre-vegan days, was actually a pretty cool combination. It generates the sort of stench that stops annoying people going near you, and that has to be empowering.
Also, i seem to remember having a similar blogwar over crisp flavours and being deemed anti-feminist due to my love of prawn cocktail.
Also, Bonobobabe, this might answer your question about Heinz soup being sold in Europe while not in the U.S.:
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/tag/heinz/