We are still waiting for the release of Richard Nixon's 1975 Grand Jury testimony. We don't expect to see him confessing to any crimes in it but he talked for eleven hours about Watergate with a lot of time reportedly spent on the infamous 18.5 minute gap on a key tape…the gap analysts said was a deliberate erasure. There's gotta be something interesting in those eleven hours.
We are also still waiting for the Souplantation (and Sweet Tomatoes) chain to bring back my favorite soup, their Classic Creamy Tomato…but it won't be this month. Traditionally, they feature it in the month of March and then it makes a one-week return in October, which is usually Request Month. Only this October isn't Request Month. It's Potato Month. The Souplantation folks have moved Request Month to February.
Will my fave soup turn up in February? Would they feature it for one week in February if it's going to be available for the entire month of March? Or are they going to really break with tradition and not feature it next March?
I called contacts over at Souplantation HQ and they weren't able to tell me anything. In fact, as of last Wednesday, they wouldn't even tell me that this was going to be Potato Month and that there'd be no Classic Creamy Tomato Soup. I had to find out from other, outside sources.
This is very annoying. Nixon managed to keep his Grand Jury Testimony secret for 36 years. I hope the Souplantation isn't going to stonewall the same way…especially because good tomato soup is so important.