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from where does the minhag of eating chicken soup friday night come from?
Because it tastes good?
While we have chicken soup on most Friday nights, there is the occasional week when we replace it with a potato leek soup instead.
The Wolf
I am almost sure that it began in my dear grandparents’ apartments in The Bronx.
My dear wife honored the last Shabbos by making an astoundingly delicious Pumpkin-Ginger soup, featuring the fruits of the season. I am almost positive that none of my grandparents would have minded, even though they started that chicken soup minhag thing.
probably because it tastes good and is cheap to make
Less than 3 days to chicken soup!!!
It was cold in Europe. All they had were chickens, onions, and water. = chicken soup
Maybe it came from poor people who didnt have enough chicken for the whole family and this way everyone gets to taste the chicken flavor. Its a way of stretching the chicken so more people can partake of it
While we have chicken soup on most Friday nights, there is the occasional week when we replace it with a potato leek soup instead
my wife always cooks the chicken soup with a leek in it. i recommend your wife give it a try.
Sometimes we have chicken soup, sometimes carrot soup, sometimes pumpkin soup, sometimes mushroom barley soup, and if we have milchigs, we will have a most delicious celery soup.
mamash
If you get the chance, can I get your celery soup recipe? 😀
I’ve had soups other than chicken on Fri. night and it just felt like something was missing.
Minhag of eating chicken soup friday night?
Very poshit.
How else would you get three courses in one pot: soup; chicken and vegetables?
And you could take the pot off the fire before Shabbos, wrap it, and still have piping hot food at the meal.
And the bonus is that you only needed one bowl for all.
That’s the way it was, and still is for many of us.
Jewish customs in general are often hard to find the source or figure out the reasoning. But Jewish foods for Shabbos and YomTov seem to have a certain kedusha to them. If everybody eats chicken soup, with or without veggies, then obviously it has some holy cachet to it.
All of you that talk about potato soup, leek soup, carrot soup, pumpkin soup on Shabbas Kodesh – SHAME ON YOU! Such apikorsus!!!
What would your great grandparents think of you?
What a boosha!!!
OY America America! Look what this guldena medina has done to us!!!
May we all do teshuva, may Mashiach come quickly and bring a return to the chicken soup with luchshen of our ancestors!
(and PLEASE don’t anyone tell me that they put the heilige kneidlach in carrot soup!)
Basmelech- I agree
I once had no gas for two weeks so I made a roasted tomato soup in the oven. The soup was good but it definitely didnt feel right
One pot meal.
my wife always cooks the chicken soup with a leek in it. i recommend your wife give it a try.
Too late. 🙂
Eeee’s chicken soup is really a chicken-vegetable soup. It *always* has leek in it (she LOVES the leek in the soup) along with potatoes, zuchinni, sweet potatoes, turnip, parsnip, carrot, onion and about half a dozen other vegetables.
The Wolf
SHAME ON YOU! Such apikorsus!!!
I agree. You allow this and the next thing you know, people are serving non-brown shabbos food and civilization is careening towards a fiery, apocalyptic end.
The Wolf
“my wife always cooks the chicken soup with a leek in it. i recommend your wife give it a try. “
If you want a yummy treat, peel a sweet potato and put it in your chicken soup – adds a wonderful tam and tastes great. Often there are so many assorted veggies in my pot of chicken soup that there is barely room for the bird. Most of them are pretty cooked out by the time the soup is done and are discarded when I strain my soup. I only save the carrots (and eat the sweet potato right away-cook’s treat).
“there is the occasional week when we replace it with a potato leek soup instead.”
You shouldnt change the soup. Chicken soup at the night suda is a minhag in most of europe and america. Much like wearing a kipah its not a din that you have to have it but its a very strong minhag and you shouldnt ignore it for soemthing else without a really good reason like allerges or something.
Isn’t chicken soup good for a cold and the soul?
44 hours to chicken soup!!!
mosherose you are quite nuts!
Yum chicken soup!!!!!! My father always says that the only thing that keeps him up and going in shul on Friday night is my mother’s chicken soup!!!! Heaven!!!!
mosherose – are you seriously comparing chicken soup to kippas??
20 hours to chicken soup!!!
Knowing there is chicken soup Friday evening helps energize the last 3 work days of the work week.
put parsnip in it and dill
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