12/15/2023 0 Comments The big salad episodePretzelsĮpisode: “The Alternate Side” (Season 3, Episode 11) “No soup for you,” Elaine taunts the Soup Nazi, in one of her most vindictive moments ever. Later, Elaine drives the Soup Nazi out of town when she finds his secret recipes - from mulligatawny to corn and crab chowder - in the armoire he gives Kramer. The gang begins frequenting a fantastic new soup stand, only to be banned one by one by the particular owner due to their difficult behavior: George asks for bread, Jerry’s girlfriend distracts with her PDA, and Elaine rudely bangs on the counter while the Soup Nazi to Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. If there’s one food oddity from Seinfeld that casual viewers remember, it’s likely the Soup Nazi. Ultimately, Seinfeld fans must ask: is the show actually nihilistic, or has it found its higher purpose, its raison d’être, even its godhead, in the manifold glories of snacks?Īfter looking through this comprehensive guide to Seinfeld’s most crucial food references, you, too, might feel as though you’ve just stumbled upon the “meaning of it all.” SoupĮpisode: “The Soup Nazi” (Season 7, Episode 6) The takeaway may not be that Seinfeld is a show about “nothing.” Rather, it’s a show about everything, and how said “everything” is just a little less important than, say, a tiny mint, a very big salad, or the absence of a very delicious chocolate babka. The show’s gastronomical leaning is often, itself, toward the aggrandizing of the trivial: the gravity with which a food group that can only be described as “light nibbles” is dissected by the characters usually far outweighs that with which they approach larger meals, relationships, friendship, and, just generally: life. Seinfeld’s magical nihilism seems to reach its peak with the juxtaposing of serious dramas - deaths, break-ups, deaths that are a convenient substitute for break-ups (RIP Susan) - with trivialities, the most common of which involve foodstuffs. We’ve selected it as one of the posts we’re republishing for our 10th anniversary celebrations in May 2017. Editor’s note: This post was originally published in April 2015.
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