Gazpacho soup also known as Gazpacho is a cold tomato-based Spanish soup that is popular in warmer areas and during the summer. It is usually spicy but a milder variant has also become popular.

In both fiction and real life, of embarrassing situations have been perpetuated where a show-off has been chastened by insisting that his or her cold soup be heated up.

Gazpacho soup in fiction

• In the science fiction series Red Dwarf, one character (Arnold Rimmer) dies in a radiation leak. His last words are 'Gazpacho Soup'. Later when resurrected as a hologram, he is persuaded to explain why these were his last words. He recount the sad story of his humiliation as a young officer cadet, in which he embarrassed himself in front of senior officers by complaining loudly to the waiter that the gazpacho soup is cold. Rimmer ends up eating a 'bowl of piping hot gazpacho soup'.
• In Pedro Almodovar's 1987 movie Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, different characters help themselves to the soup made by Pepa (Carmen Maura ) and instantly fall into a deep and long sleep.

External links

Wikibooks Cookbook has a section about:   Gazpacho

• Gazpacho recipe http://www.mediterrasian.com/delicious_recipes_gazpacho.htm
• Spanish Recipes http://www.cellartastings.com/en/food-spanish-recipes.html