Warning: This book contains strong opinions about canned soup, suspicious gas station roller hot dogs, a coworker who compiles workplace injury statistics that he definitely makes up, and a first date that somehow survives against all reasonable expectations.
Greg Turner has spent four years at Budget Foods convincing himself he's "figuring things out." Mindy Coppis has spent three years at the Gas Oasis doing the same. They are both lying to themselves.
When Mindy wanders into Greg's soup aisle looking for split pea - the fruitcake of the soup world - she gets more than directions. She gets a full lecture on soup social dynamics, a coworker named Dennis who applies hand sanitizer like lotion and calculates the statistical probability of their relationship, and somehow, against all odds, a reason to come back.
For the record, Mindy's last boyfriend wore a cape to parties and owned a ferret named Gandalf. Greg is already ahead of the curve by just showing up.
What starts as a shared fifteen-minute break at a picnic table behind their respective jobs becomes something neither of them expected: a real connection, built one stolen afternoon at a time.
Split Pea Soup is laugh-out-loud funny, surprisingly tender, and proof that sometimes love shows up exactly where you'd least expect it, usually on the bottom shelf, right next to the lentils.
