This site uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising.
By continuing to browse, you agree to the use of cookies described in our Cookies Policy.
You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site.
To learn more see our Cookies Policy.
All of them came complete with a handy soup recipe printed on the side.
So, there did they come from?
Unfortunately, the internet doesn’t throw up too many answers in this regard. While there are several mugs and bowls for sale on eBay, information on them is fairly scant beyond the fact that they date from the 1970s/1980s and bear a ‘Made in China’ mark on the bottom.
(One DailyEdge.ie staffer has vague recollections of them being on offer from either a petrol station or a supermarket.)
Thursday 26 December, 2024
Thursday 26 December, 2024
Download our app
Every Irish household has these soup recipe bowls in their cupboard
THERE ARE SOME household items that can be found in every Irish house.
Club Milk mugs, Simpsons magnets, Rice Krispie Bowls. That kind of thing.
But there’s one set of bowls that every single Irish house seems to inexplicably have.
We are, of course, talking about these recipe soup bowls.
Lurking in every cupboard and press in Ireland is one of these bowls. (Not to mention every single charity shop.)
Onion soup, anybody?
A quick, rudimentary search reveals that there were seven different iterations available.
Mushroom soup, oxtail soup, onion soup, chicken soup, scotch broth, tomato soup…
And the coveted Mulligatawny.
The rarest of the lot.
All of them came complete with a handy soup recipe printed on the side.
So, there did they come from?
Unfortunately, the internet doesn’t throw up too many answers in this regard. While there are several mugs and bowls for sale on eBay, information on them is fairly scant beyond the fact that they date from the 1970s/1980s and bear a ‘Made in China’ mark on the bottom.
(One DailyEdge.ie staffer has vague recollections of them being on offer from either a petrol station or a supermarket.)
They’re not just a phenomenon in the UK & Ireland
Here are the same bowls with the recipe printed in French!
Imagine. Your mam probably has loads of them lying around at home and now they’re considered vintage.
Mad Ted.
Care to shed more light on the soup recipe bowls and where they came from? Let us know in the comments.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Eating soup recipe bowl souper trouper