My wife brought a grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of Campbell’s Tomato Soup to my office earlier this evening. After she left, for a moment, I was a kid again…having soup made by my mother,and getting warmer inside with every spoon full. When memories like that show up, let them engulf you.
My mum always has a cheese sandwich with her soup.
If we’re lucky to live long enough, eventually, all we have are memories. ❤️
So your wife reminds you of your mom?
My takeaway also..
Absolutely agree, AND, is there a way OP can evoke that feeling for his wife, when he can? That would be the markings of a true partnership, to be each other’s safe person
He did NOT say his wife reminded him of his mother. The soup & sandwich brought back memories of his mother who just died last October.
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My favorite meal.
That’s why they call it comfort food
Dude, all I'm getting from this is "my wife is my mom!" WTF bro!?!
Im not sure if ‘you remind me of my mom’ is the compliment your wife wants to hear. I sure as hell wouldn’t.
That combo is my warm feeling all over too
My mom used to give us kids the exact same thing, and yes, it was very comforing.
That’s a classic, and a ‘go to’ when I need a little ’cozy’ in my day. 🙃
I had that for dinner last night!
That’s lovely. Cheese on toast with tomato soup was my childhood comfort food too. Followed by Ambrosia rice pudding with a spoonful of raspberry jam in the middle. I hope you’re not working every evening!
My #1 comfort meal. Have been having this in these crazy times quite often❤️
When I was a kid, I had grilled cheese with condensed tomato soup poured on top. It’s good.
To dunk or not to dunk...that is the question 😋
No saltines? 😔
that was our traditional 3rd Friday of Lent dinner, week before Mrs Paul’s fish sticks & Kraft Mac & Cheese
Fish sticks and mac & cheese is on regular rotation in this house, only now it’s Annie’s mac and we’re in our 50’s. 😂
my favorite Friday night of Lent was the breakfast for dinner on Good Friday, pancakes and scrambled eggs for dinner seemed almost decadent
Your wife knew that. She loves you. Wanted to give you those feels. Hug her hard next time, snuggle her ear and tell her she is amazing. A lot of us live vicariously through folks like you.
I know this because of myself. No one made it for me when I was little. I made and make it for myself when needed. I made sure my kids knew it as love. ✌
The country needs some comfort food too.
Wife ever brought me a grilled cheese & tomato soup ~ she’d be gettin so much oral… 😉
It's too painful for me. I felt so secure then. I miss that feeling.
She’s a keeper! Just proved it again.
You're a good man,Jack.
Still my fave!
Chicken noodle soup and a p&j sandwich was my grandmother’s go to. Loved the lunches we shared.
My youngest called me from the grocery store to ask me for my tuna melt recipe because she suddenly had a craving. My BF said, “don’t kids know how to google anymore??” I said, “she wanted her MOMMA’S recipe! You will never understand!” My girl, wrap yourself all up in the memories. ❤️
Was it made with water or milk? Mine was always made with milk. I don't think I've had it in over 40 years
Milk! 😁
It's a sin to use water.
I can relate. My mom made the best grilled cheese sandwiches. And tomato soup is the perfect companion dish.
Did you dip the sandwich into the soup?
This is the way.
One of the best combos ever.
I deliberately purged most of those from my memory. They serve no purpose in my life now.
Tomato soup and a grilled cheese is heaven!
Nice.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup from mom was like pasta fagioli every other Friday: a family ritual
How wonderful ❤️💙I know you’re grieving for your mom and holidays are tough with so many memories 💙embrace them and stay well
I recently prepared myself that after craving it for almost a month, I can still feel the relaxing warmth in my stomach when I think about it.
Precisely. Experiences over antipothy. People over possessions.
I had to check to see what country you live in. If you had been in Canada I would have told you that Campbell’s soups are made in New Jersey, & that Alymer’s soups are made in Canada! youtube.com/shorts/FOTKi...
I have no comment other than "Wow, just wow. " 🤦
Well said !
Mmm, mmm, good 😋
Your wife knows how to push your buttons. Enjoy.
That is some true wisdom
And to all the haters below. Read the last part of the post. The fact that y’all are so focused on the mom-wife thing actually says more about YOU than you’d likely care to admit
My mother never made me soup or a sandwich. She came from the “we did the best we could” generation
Food and music are our soul memories. It's the little things.
Man, now I want that. I think I'll make that for dinner. Or lunch tomorrow. I get to go see AOC and Bernie tonight, so... I may not have time AND I'm driving by a Sonic (which we don't have in my county). Cherry slushie = my childhood.
She's a keeper!
Best meal combo ever
Just don't tell your wife you thought about your mom instead when your wife did something nice.
That is a very visceral memory. And yeah. Hold those close and share them. Spread little jpys.
Hang onto those precious memories, some days it's all we have.
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Exactly. We have that for dinner when eating light. Yup comfort food.
My mom used to burn grilled cheese a bit until my teens when I said stop. Crap, now I want a slightly burnt grilled cheese.
Can you send her over to me? Love me some grilled cheese and tomato soup. 😁
Hell that and Ramen will be my every night menu again the way things are going...
We are all looking for comfort! Priceless! Find your safe spots. Mine is outdoors Maine
How wonderful
Do all heterosexuals associate their sexual partners with their mothers???
Because she did something that reminded him of being a kid? WTF is wrong with you people?
All the comments saying things like “she’s a keeper!” and “that’s how a real woman treats her man” imply there’s more to it than just nostalgia for being a kid, but rather nostalgia for having a mother figure to baby them 🤷♀️
Life is made up of moments. Take time to focus on the good ones.
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Watch The Repair Shop.
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Proust got 3000 pages out of his memory from childhood of a madeline (a small sponge cake) dipped in tea.
I had that the other night for supper. Felt like I just needed some comfort food.
Memories like that are golden!! I was out walking the other day and got a whiff from someone’s kitchen and it smelled like walking into my grandmothers home as a child. Took me back instantly and brought a smile to my face. Core memories…
One of favorites, makes me feel all squidgy too 😊…
Love that combo!
Normalcy is nice
~ such a wonderful feeling 💙
Super!!!!!!!
I had grilled cheese for lunch yesterday. It always makes me feel safe. Sometimes we really need comfort food. Especially in times like this!
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Sit down. I got a long story about these madeleines I caught the scent of…
It's a perfect pairing. I eat the same thing myself. I grew up on them. They go together like peas and carrots.
Question: have you done anything similar for her? And if not, why?
It's going to be little things like this to keep us going while the constitution is dismantled.
I know you fought for our country & I thank you. I know too you may feel despair but AMERICA IS GOING TO STAY THE COURSE & RIGHT THIS SHIP! You keep sailing with us even.❤️🇺🇸
Sweet
We buried my mother in Wisconsin last Thursday. My wife and I got home to NJ today and, after finalizing our taxes, she gave me tomato & roasted pepper soup with a grilled Wisconsin cheddar sandwich. I ate and cried. It really, really helped.
I hear you. I lost my mother in October. I still cry when it hits me out of the blue. I love my wife.
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I dip my grill cheese into thick clam chowder.
Childhood memory, my mother beating me with a wood stick. Is engulfed in that feeling daily/ feels the love. Is more than ready to eat a bullet.
She voted for him 4 times and lied to me about it for years/ feeling deeply betrayed humilated. Is her fool of a son
That is the best of a marriage, too.💐 People often don't appreciate what they have. I was a divorce lawyer, so I really appreciated what a gem my late husband was. He was the best example of how to be nice to your spouse. Marriage isn't 50-50. It's going past that line as much as you can.
She love you:)
My favorite meal!!! Still!!!
That's total comfort food.... you can't beat it...
Wow I can’t think of anything more I’d want in a relationship.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup (especially on a cold, rainy/snowy day) is the comfort food to end all comfort foods!
Nothing better.
Ah, yes. I’ll never turn that down.
My mum used to give me the same and I was just thinking about it last night. I miss those simple moments.
It's funny how things pop up on you
That is definitely a childhood memory. 🍅❤️🍅
But you need grilled cheese to go with it too
Nothing better in the world!
I wish my childhood would've been so idyllic. So I provide that experience for my partner instead - bon appetite!
Just checking to see if someone put up this gif yet.
It’s the money shot of that fabulous film.
That statement I will argue with. Luigi seeing Remy cook for the first time and Collette's manic grin as she vents her frustration over becoming a chef in Paris as a woman while holding knives are my favorite moments.
That’s a wonderful scene. However, it’s not the typical Pixar money-shot, these scene that make you cry. Like the climax of the opening scene in Up.
Funnily enough I had a can of Watties tomato soup with hubby the other day. Not a common occurrence these days but like you it was in my in my early days as a child. I did enjoy especially because I wasn't 💯 well.
Wattles made in Aotearoa, New Zealand 🥰
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Gross.
There’s something timeless about that combo. Amazing how food can carry us across decades in an instant. Thanks for the reminder to slow down and feel it.
My mom always put a pat of butter in the middle of the Tomato soup. I always liked watching it slowly dissolve and become one with the soup.
No, when memories like that show up you must write a seven-volume masterpiece of modernist French literature.
I'll have madeleines for 1000, Alex
Good advice.
As a kid, that was my go-to meal. Another awesome memory was getting the crust off of a freshly baked loaf of bread and smothering it in butter.
My daughter's favorite vegetarian lunches! And mine!
Friday's at my house.
So true, enjoy!
The good ol days.
~ Indeed !
Hang in there
A moment of joy to cherish 👍
That brings back Fridays in Lent memories, along with those bland but fun frozen pizzas! Mom made it fun!
That’s a very sweet memory. Give your wife an extra hug for taking you back to that special place in time.
I remember when I was 4, mum took lunch to my dad at his work. I was in the car and Hall & Oates’ ‘Private Eyes’ was on the radio as we were driving. Whenever I hear that on the radio now, I always think back to that time 43 years ago…
For sure.
That's what I was thinking about for dinner myself!! Mmmm- mmm Good!
Still one of my favorite lunches. Add a glass of chocolate milk, and it's like I'm a kid again, having lunch with my mom. I totally get this.
comfort food to the childhood.
Here's the proof to pudding. We all want to marry our mothers.
A favorite comfort meal for me. Sandwich cut diagonally with hamburger dill pickles slices on the side. Yummy.
Beautifully expressed. I feel the same way when I greet my garden each morning and see the world is still brimming over with beauty.
That has always been my top comfort meal as well.
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That's proper comfort food. I'd have it for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Go posh by adding worcestershire sauce (that has to be Lee & Perrins).
The grilled cheese has to be on wonder white bread, kraft American cheese and land-o-lakes butter. That’s how my mom made it with a bowl of Campbell’s tomato soup with oyster crackers.
did you dip your sandwich in the soup tho
What a wonderful memory. You’ve just described tomorrow’s lunch.
Best feeling in the world.
National grilled cheese sandwich day was last week. Celebrated with the same pairing; grilled cheese was a gouda/havarti combo.
Aw fuck. It’s 0200 and I can’t sleep. Now imma make me a grilled cheese and tomato soup and watch an episode of Bobs Burgers! Aw yiss!
You have to make it with real milk, though.
Uhm. I’m Canadian. What are you talking about “real milk?” That’s some dystopian America sounding shit.
What can I say? We have some sick individuals here. If you were dumb enough to vote for Trump, you would probably make your tomato soup with water.
I suddenly imagined tomato soup made with oat "milk." I may not sleep tonight for the horror.
Oh, that is just twisted.
I've been eating the same this week. One of the best comfort combos, IMO.
That combo is one of my most favorite comfort food combos to this day. For me, it represents something quintessentially “All-American.” What that really means, I’ll never know, but it’s my story and I’m sticking to it! 🍅 🧀 🍞
One day shortly after my father died, a friend made that identical lunch for me. It comforts like nothing else can.
Tomato soup and grilled cheese hit me the same noodles. I would give my eye teeth for it to be 1980 again.
That kind of nurturing doesn't just feed your stomach, it feeds your heart and soul. ♥️
A variation on that meal was given to my maternal grandfather every day after he got too lost in himself to order it: tomato soup, liverwurst on rye. I still have a few of his tools, and feel his presence around me when I use them. Thank you for the reminder.
They always go together . And yes it brings back memories
What a beautiful and touching post
Men are lucky. They get a mom and then a wife-mom. Us ladies should get paid for all this nannying!
Mannying? 😂
Sooooooo ... to thank her, I should get home early so I can have sex with my mom? 🤔
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I was just telling my husband today that we should have that for dinner once in a while for old times sake.
I used to tear strips of Velveeta individual slices and let those melt into the tomato soup (which we always made with milk). Next were pieces of plain white wonder bread either placed into the bowl or folded slices dipped into it.
Interesting variation.
Moments that tell you life is still good and worth the fight to keep it.
Yum. You should (obviously) keep her!
I make that often for dinner. My husband loves it.
So amazing! Childhood in a meal. My grandma used velveeta and cut it diagonally top left to bottom right. I won’t cut my sandwiches any other way… I miss my grandma 💔
So sweet - oh to go back to that time.
I want to go back to that feeling but not to that time.
This was the standard Saturday lunch for me and my five siblings.
The soup is US made, so we don't buy it here.
Aylmers soup from now on….screw the nostalgia
That was so thoughtful ❤️🥪 🍜
Next up: Lime tea and madeleines!
Indeed.
My mother called me "The Campbell Soup Kid"! Now, I still make a spice-based soup for lunch every day. I love SOUP.
Best meal! Glad you enjoied! 🥣
Mmmmmm mmmm comfort food.
I hope you reciprocate.
Now we hungry! Nothing like a proper cheese toasty & soup 🥣 #GoodFood 😋 hankering… 🤤
Did you dip your sandwich in the soup?
What kind of sinner wouldn't dip it?
Sweet
Brilliant. Cheers to your wife for being awesome. That's such a nice, simple way to show someone you love them.
Yessir…it’s ALWAYS the little things.✌🏼🤟🏼🤘🏼
True love need not be grandiose.It only needs to be sincere. She loves you.
Kraft Mac n Cheese with cut up hot dogs in it has done the same for me.
My mom would add peas to it.
Mac n Cheese, cut up hot dogs, and peas.
Oh man. I'll try that next time. Thanks.
A complete meal!
i’m currently obsessed with campells tomato soup. a can of soup concentrate, three cups of parmigiano reggiano, a half teaspoon of msg, a half teaspoon of chipotle powder, a few pinches of salt, a can of whole milk, and a half can of heavy cream. thank me after you try it. shit is so good
Oooh yuuuum
Yes ..
Oh, I loved when my Mom made that for me. Takes me right back.
In Canada we would reject that instantly and replace with Aylmer's tomato soup and the sandwich made with local baked bread and Black Diamond cheddar cheese. Even yummier and totally Canadian! Elbows up!
Your wife is your mother?
That sounds amazing. Isn’t simplicity wonderful 😊
Grill cheese + tomato soup = love.
When I was pregnant, that’s all I craved!
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Luv that. THANK YOU!
Kid tastes and sounds and smells are an amazing comfort! Cannot eat pancakes without thinking of being in My Grandma’s Kitchen! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 50 years ago!
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