lil café place near me does soup flights, you get like 5 lil cups of different soup and half a loaf of house baked bread.

This unironically sounds awesome, I would go to this event.

My town has a Chowderfest. It's great, dozens of places serve $2 cups and you walk all over town tasting and then you vote for your fav.

In my city we have Souper Bowl. It’s an event where local restaurants make their soups and you vote on the best. It’s a pretty cool event.

It’s…called a buffet.

Bezos’ offering

Quality questionable?

Logistically, it's a fuck load more work to cook a dozen soups than to pop a dozen bottles.

to the question - "anyone?" - i shall step forth in response

I think that's just a potluck.

My friend used to host an annual soup tasting/swap.

We used to have a place nearby named "Souper Salads" with an all you can eat lunch buffet. If I recall they had at least 4-5 different soups to try. Nothing unusual, just common, basic flavors, but still in a similar vein to your desire. I think they were a chain, but I suspect they went out of business.

There was a lovely soup place in Iceland that did this, including a free refill of your soup. I never thought I could feel so overly full with soup.

There was a California restaurant chain called Souplantation that about eight soups available. All you can eat. Closed during the pandemic.

They also had the most incredible salad bar I've ever seen.

My town used to have a soup based fundraiser for the local food banks and shelters. A bunch of local restaurants would donate and serve samples of their soups with bread, crackers, etc. plus all the grilled cheese you could eat. Best dinner ever.

I'd climb aboard this soup train.

I'd sail on this soup cruise.

I'd drive on this soup highway.

I'd bend my spoon all over this soup matrix.

There used to be a chain restaurant near my workplace called Zoup. We all loved it! We would look at the menu for the week on Monday and if one of our favorite soups came up, we would all go grab some soup and bread for lunch one day. You could also taste all the soups before getting one. It was the best! But it sadly died during COVID lockdowns. RIP Zoup.

my mom's actually part of a soup club! they all bring soups and exchange them

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Well, my parents have a gourmet club, where people cook different themes every month. So this could easily be a gourmet soup club.

This b--ch just hungry...

It's not really wine soup tasting if it's not a line of people who spit it back for the next person

Well coffee is a bean broth soup. So just go to a coffee tasting event. Bean heads called them “cupping events”.

Make it a thing! Be the change you want to see in the world

There are hop-soup tastings. Not the same as tomato soup, bit still better than wine if you ask me.

Gotta hit that spit bucket withous swallowing.

Commas carry quite a load.

Fuck me, I'm in!