No chicken noodle soup for me--unless it is vegan. I was having lunch with my students at Pomona College's main cafeteria (and I used to like it until this visit. It deteriorated. It must have been taken over by Albert Abella's enterprises. This is an inside Lebanese joke--or attempted). I saw this sign for chicken noodle soup and it said "Vegan" under the name of the soup. All items are identified when they are vegan or vegetarian. Now I am vegetarian, not vegan, but was intrigued by a vegan chicken noodle soup. It has large chunks of...Tofu. They seem to look like chicken. I marveled in my mind about the evolution of Tofu. When I first became a vegetarian more than a decade ago, Tofu tasted like my shoes--albeit boiled and salted. So I started eating the soup, and kept praising it to my students. I left the chunks of...tofu to the end. I had my first try of the...Tofu, and it tasted great--just like chicken. I started harboring suspicions. One student suggested that I break one piece with the fork, and she declared it a chicken. Another student came over and took one piece, and also declared it chicken as did another student: he said it looks like chicken. I went back to the area and saw a chef: I explained the matter. He smiled widely and said: oh, that was a mistake. It has a lot of chicken. I left the cafeteria knowing about chicken noodle soups what I knew not before.