Soup Facts And Lore

(Saturday, January 01, 2005) - Americans consume more than 10 billion bowls of soup every year.

Ninety-nine percent of all American households purchase soup each year, making it a $5 billion business.

Women are more than twice as likely as men to cite soup as a typical lunch (9.6% versus 4.0%).

The earliest evidence of humans eating soup was 6000 BC. The main ingredient was hippopotamus.

The story goes that in the late 1700s, French royal chefs created a clear broth (called consomme) because the king wanted to see his reflection in his bowl.

The ladies of the French court of Louis XI subsisted mainly on soup because they believed that chewing would cause them to develop facial wrinkles.

Frank Sinatra’s contracts often specified that chicken and rice soup be in his dressing room prior to performances.

Andy Warhol said he painted soup cans because he had soup for lunch every day for 20 years.

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 the best.”

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