Fried Soup

Description

"Fried soup" is a meme about a dish "from dad," whose recipe is framed as a joke instruction: the soup is to be fried in a pan with the addition of spices and tomato paste. According to the catalog's description, after eating this food a person gets severe gas, so bad that "the wallpaper peels off." This is how the idea of simple home cooking made without any particular skill gets exaggerated.

In the catalog, the meme is dated to 2016 and linked to the site "Dvach." The post spawned many parodies, in which the recipe format was transferred to other dishes and situations.

Origin

The meme's origin hasn't been established. The search found several pages devoted to "dad's" recipes and masterpieces, but they couldn't be opened. So the author of the post, the exact date of first publication, and the original platform are unconfirmed.

The article states only the catalog's data: the year 2016 and the link to "Dvach." This information needs separate verification if the editors want to specify the first publication.

Meaning and format

The main idea of the meme is exaggeration. A simple dish is described as dangerous in its consequences, and the image of a caring father becomes a source of irony. The comedy rests on the serious delivery: the recipe is written like an instruction, with no hint of a joke.

The recipe format made it possible to quickly transfer the joke to other contexts. Parodies changed the ingredients and names while keeping the structure "take, fry, get the result," and that's what made the post recognizable.

Similar joke recipes—with deliberately absurd ingredients and a markedly serious tone—existed before this post appeared, so the meme can be placed within an already established tradition of internet humor about clumsy or overly simple home cooking.

Spread

The meme spread in threads and comments, where users shared their own "recipes from dad." Such an environment encourages short, easily repeatable jokes, and the recipe was well suited to being copied with edits.

Over time, the phrase "recipe from dad" came to mean any deliberately simple or unsuccessful home recipe. This meaning persists both in everyday speech and in parody posts.

Apparently, the format's popularity is also explained by the fact that such texts are easy to read aloud in company—their short form and recognizable structure make the joke convenient for retelling, not just for posting online.

Image and caveat

The illustration from the catalog shows a pan with tomato sauce, in which chopped vegetables and onion can be made out. This partly matches the description of the preparation, though the shot shows a fried vegetable base rather than a finished soup in the usual sense.

So the match with the description is partial: the photo has the very tomato mixture mentioned in the recipe, but no soup itself. The article is written based on the description and tags, while the photo serves as an illustration.