Hutchinson News
Souper Facts
January 12, 1994
? The f i r st archaelogical evidence of someone s t i r r ing up soup for dinner dates back to 6000 B.C. The main i n g r e d i e nt of this f i r s t ? k n own soup? Hi p p o p o t amus Bones!
? Even before pots were developed to withstand direct heat from a f i r e, soup was cooked by placing heated stones into a bowl of liquid stock.
? The English word ?soup? derives from the Middle Ages word ?sop,??which means a piece of bread over which roast
drippings are poured.
? The earliest cookbook on record was written in 1375 by the head cook of French k i n g, Charles V.
? Don Quixote, The Man of La Mancha, ate lentil soup every Friday.
? Dr. John T. Dorrence discovered the process for making condensed soups in 1897, which helped make soup one of the
first convenience foods.
? On average, Americans purchase 65 cans of Campbell?s Soups every second of every day of the year (includes dry soup).
? Of the top six selling dry grocery items in supermarkets nationally, three are Campbell?s Soups: Campbell?s Chicken
Noodle, Cream of Mushroom, and Tomato Soups rank number 1,2 and 6 respectively. Kraft Macron! and Cheese, SunMaid Raisins and Star-Kist Tuna rank 3,4 and 5 respectively.
? Americans consume more than 10 billion bowls of soup each year.
? In one year Campbell produces almost 11 billion letters for its alphabet soups.
? Campbell Soup sells more t h an 700,000 tons of soup each year ? enough to fill the ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth II, more than 10 times.
? Can chicken soup really help cure a cold? Folklore about chicken soup?s ?soothing? properties dates back to the 12th century, when Moses Moimonides, an Egyptian theologian, philospher and physician wrote, ?Chicken soup ? is recommended as an excellent food as well as medication.?
? Immigrants brought the tradition of chicken soup with them to America, where the folk remedy became known as ?Jewish penicillin.?
? Bruce Springsteen once replaced his all-cheeseburger diet with Campbell?s vegetable soup and balanced meals.
? Bette Midler likes her crews to be served different soups every night.
? ?Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? host Robin Leach calls tomato soup his favorite comfort food.
? Artist Andy Warhol, when once asked why he painted soup cans, replied, ?Because I used to drink (soup). I used to
have the same lunch every day for 20 years.
? President Bill Clinton?s favorite is Vegetable Beef.
? George Washington had Pepperpot Soup prepared to feed his Valley Forge troops.
? Napoleon Bonaparte once said, ?An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.?
? There is an , old Yiddish saying: ?Troubles are easier to take with soup than without.?
? An old Spanish proverb says: ?Of soup and love, the first is best,?
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