I was never given soup when I was sick, so it can't be that. Sick food was always dry crackers and flat lemonade.

Pumpkin soup is often pretty yucky. I don't mind it with a reasonable amount of curry in it, or the one I had today had a lot of chicken stock to give it flavour. Pumpkin on it's own is just boring mush that is often a bit too sweet. It also had a fair few other vegetables in it, so it wasn't just watered down pumpkin puree like a lot seem to be.