Soup Skin

"I'm craving a bowl of soup THIS big!"

Have you ever made soup and didn't drink it right away? A layer of what appears to be skin forms after the soup cools usually. When you dip your spoon into the soup, a wrinkle will always appear after your spoon has penetrated the top layer of soup. This layer is what I like to call "soup skin".

The term 'soup skin' is used a bit differently in my circle of friends. It's part of my group of friends unique lingo. All groups have their own set of vocab that means something to them. This one is ours. The origins of the term actually came from my brother. Here's the back story. We were big wrestling fans in the late 90s and early 2000s. One day as we were watching a match with Hulk Hogan in it, my brother commented that "Hogan's so old, he has soup skin!" We're all like...what the f--- is soup skin? My brother goes on to give a detailed explanation that Hogan's so old that he's starting to get folds/wrinkles on his body that looks like soup skin. The very same wrinkles you see when you first dip your spoon into the surface layer of cooled down soup. We never heard wrinkles being described like that before. As we looked closer at Hogan, sure enough the folds in his skin did look like soup skin. Please see the picture above for visuals of this 'soup skin' phenomenon.

Now that you know what 'soup skin' means, I would like to ask you one question. Do you have soup skin? If not, it's only a matter of time.

I shall now leave you and your soup skin with a nice little song. It's called "Airplanes" by Local Natives: Click here and press the "play this track" button to listen. Lyrics can be found here. Enjoy ladies and gents.