Letter to Convent garden soup company.

Dear Chef
I live in Royal Windsor.
There is at the Royal station here a company which I believe is yours which sells soup.
Yet it is never possible buy Windsor Soup there.
There is a branch of Waitrose in Windsor and it did stock it once.
But I have looked at your site and although Windsor Soup is not a summer soup, more for the darker days of Winter I am surprised that is unavailable.
My point is:
If you cannot get it in Windsor then where can you?
I have no doubt that if I visited Mulligatawny I could get soup that was native to the town.
If I visited Gazpacho, wherever that is, I could buy their soup.

I feel there is a gap in the market.

Yours




Dear Chef .JUNE 2004

I am the founder member of the Society for Organic Old Foods and live in the royal town of Windsor.

There is a soup named after our town, Windsor Soup. Not many towns have that honour. I wrote to you suggesting that I was surprised that the soup was not available on the Convent Garden Soup display in Windsor Waitrose nor in your branch of the Soup Company in Windsor Royal Station.

You replied that the soup had been on sale during the Jubilee Celebrations but not recently.

I was in the Royal Station yesterday and was not surprised to se e that your branch is now closed.

Might I suggest that there is a connection between the non availability of the soup and the closure of the branch?

People come from all over the world to Windsor. Many have researched their visit on the internet and found " Windsor Soup" on search engines. Naturally they want to taste the soup and on arriving by coach or train at the Station must have been disappointed to find the soup unavailable.

They probably boycotted your premises as a result. I am only sorry that you did not heed my warning.

Society for Organic Old Foods ( SPOOF)

Society for the Preservation of Organic Old Foods

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The reply, Convent Garden Soup

Thank you for your email.

We produced a Windsor soup as a 'soup of the
month' to commemorate the
Queens Golden jubilee, however this was only
available for 4 weeks. I will
certainly pass your comments to our Product
Development Team as the more
feedback that we get the more likely they are
to consider using a recipe
again.
Kind regards
Isla Coleman
Customer Relations
Covent Garden Soup Company