This is your first notice. My favorite soup, which the Souplantation people call "Classic Creamy Tomato Soup," is back for one week at their restaurants. (Some Souplantations are called Sweet Tomatoes but I can't help that. Here's a link to search and see if there's one near you. If not, plan a quick road trip.) The week starts tomorrow but some outlets probably have it right this minute. They'll have it all this coming week and then it goes away and they're current scheduled to bring it back for the month of March…and then not 'til October, 2011.
Do yourself a favor and try it. If you like it, do us all a favor and tell the manager of the store that you'd eat there more often if they had that soup more often…like, say, always. Then don't stop there. Call the Souplantation Customer Service number, which you can find on this page and which is often answered in the evenings. Tell them you crave the stuff and don't be afraid to lie. Lying in pursuit of Creamy Tomato Soup is no sin. Tell them you have a family of twelve and you'd bring them to Souplantation every day, seven days a week and twice on holidays, if only you could get more of that Classic Creamy Tomato Soup. Tell them Grandpa is dying…wasting away to nothingness because he can't stand food…but he did gobble down three bowls of you-know-what and just might survive to finish his cure for some heretofore-incurable disease if only he could have a steady supply of the one thing he'll eat. Just make up anything.
And I hope you understand that I really oversell this soup. If you do go and try it, remember…it's not the Nectar of the Gods or a potion to reverse aging. It's just good tomato soup. But these days, that's a fine and comforting thing to have.