the soup

Someone made a soup with potatoes, pumpkin, lentils, a little water, salt, rosemary, laurel and sage.
It was very good.

The following dinner they made the soup again, but decided to add black cabbage and a little more water.
It was quite good, but not so good as the dinner before.

The day after, someone had an idea for dinner: "let's make soup!". They put the same quantity of water as the first evening, but kept the cabbage and switched lentils with barley.
The soup was disgusting.

Lesson: if you make a good soup, don't change the recipe.