A few years ago my wife and I had went out to dinner at a restaurant after a long day at work and we decided to go to a mom and pop style establishment. We couldn’t decide on what to get so we chose the soup and salad bar. I had got tortilla soup and it was absolutely delicious, and my wife had a salad and beef and barley soup. When we had got home later that evening I told her that I wanted to make my own tortilla soup. I made a big pot of it and it was horrible, it wasn’t like nasty, but it was chunky and lumpy, it had flavor but it was nothing like at the restaurant.