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1. Soup. How can I eat a bowl of hot soup when it's 90 degrees out? It seems really perverse to swallow a really hot liquid in that weather (even if soup if "lighter" fare that could be better for the summer, like salad).
2. Tea. Oh, I drink iced tea by the gallon, daily, during the summer, but I can't bring myself to drink hot tea for the same reason as #1.
3. Spaghetti and meat balls. I might have pasta in a cold pasta salad during the summerr, but as for a large spaghetti meal, heavy with sauce and garlic bread, that has to wait til fall.
4. Beans. I eat a lot of beans during the winter (quick, hot, you can add a lot to them, portable), but it's just not a summer food.
5. Stir-fry. Too hot, too sizzling.
6. Apple pie. Here's the weird thing. I hate hot apple pie. Not sure why, but it probably goes back to my childhood, when I would love cold apple pie, either out of the fridge or a Table Talk individual pie from the store. So it's not the heat that turns me off from these in the summer, it's that I just look at apple pie as a fall thing. Though I eat apples themselves in the summer. Hmmm...
7. Hot chocolate. Duh, this is an easy one. It's a hot liquid, and it just screams fall/winter/Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas too me, not something you sip on a hot night or at the pool.
8. Popcorn. Yeah, popcorn. Light enough for summer, but it's more of a "let's get on the sofa and see what's new on TV this fall" sort of food to me.
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5-29-2006 @5:30PM Michael said... Well, here in the Netherlands, it's cold, about 9 degrees C (about 48F). It is humid, but that's mainly because it's been raining on and off for a few days now. As for food, while I wouldn't drink hot chocolate on a warm day, it's always time for a cup of tea. Try mint tea. I do tend to just drink one cup of hot coffee and switch to iced for the rest of the day in summer.
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5-29-2006 @6:38PM Dr. Electro said... Here in West Texas the heat is really on. Even though Summer is officially nearly a month away we have already had many days of temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. I can understand not wanting hot tea. I definitely prefer iced tea all Summer, most of the spring and nearly all of Autumn. We only get cold weather for part of December and part of January.
However, I will eat a good bowl of soup any time of the year. I guess we are just showing that every person has individual tastes and likes.
Dr. "I raise my frosty iced tea to you" Electro
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5-29-2006 @9:17PM Rob Brooks-Bilson said... Hey, what about cold soups like vichyssoise and gazpacho? Either of these are perfect summer soups!
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5-29-2006 @9:17PM Dave said... i understand no soup, but does that include chili?
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5-29-2006 @9:48PM Mr.Kaiser said... The Soup i Can kinda understand, you know the piping hot soup generally doesn't fare well, but the hot tea. Iced Tea is good an all, but in the morning a cup of Lemon Tea is just the thing anytime of year.
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5-29-2006 @10:52PM Jennifer said... I agree w/ everything but the beans. Here, nothing says a good bbq like a huge pot of homemade chili beans. It is just as important to us as a bowl of potato salad. If I didnt make my homemade beans, I think my kids would pitch a fit.
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5-29-2006 @10:55PM J. Evans said... I'll eat a bowl of soup in the summer. But ONLY if I'm in a CHILLY restaurant, with a rrrreally great cold salad to go along with it.
As for the other stuff you mentioned, right on!
And as for the tea, well, us Southerners only drink one kind. Cold, sweet and lemony!
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5-30-2006 @12:47AM Dr. Electro said... Jennifer, I agree about the beans. They are a barbecue staple. However, there is one barbecue restaurant in my town that makes absolutely terrible beans.
Also, I may be a little less Southern that J. Evans. I take my tea unsweetened. Cold is necessary but the sweet and lemony are not for me.
I also like McAllister's Deli chili in a bread bowl. Can't have it as often as I'd like, but when I do, there's a party in my insides.
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5-30-2006 @8:15AM Lara said... Rob, I like cold soups very much! But I ususally eat anywhere and whatever...
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5-30-2006 @2:53PM Mary said... I actually love a good spicy ramen soup on a hot hot day. I feel it's actually cooling in a weird way. Like the heat intensifies at first, but in a really good way -- then it opens all your pores and you break a good sweat and cool off. Crazy, I know... but I'm a soup fiend, I'll say anything to justify my habit.
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5-30-2006 @9:38PM Robyn said... I swear I read once that hot foods/drinks actually cool you off faster because they make you sweat. This sounds like BS though so perhaps I made it up or read it wrong.
I had an awful cold/sinus infection/bronchitis last week and I was so confused! I wanted soup and hot tea, but I didn't... I'll definitely still drink hot tea/chocolate/coffee when I'm in the cafes that turn the AC way up though.
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6-12-2006 @6:39PM jenny williams said... Oh, as a brit I totally disagree about the hot tea. A nice cuppa is the only thing to revive me on a hot afternoon!
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