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unusual facts about Soup


Linus Parker

Rev. Parker served the following appointments, all in Louisiana: Lake Providence (1849), Shreveport (1850–51), Felicity Street, New Orleans (1852–54), Carondelet Street, New Orleans (1855–57), Presiding Elder of the New Orleans District (1858), Felicity Street again (1859–61), Shreveport again (1862–63), the Caldo Circuit (1864–65), and Felicity Street a third time (1866–69).


Adeline Lee Zhia Ern

However, it was found that one of her short stories “Define Happiness”, was nearly identical to the story "Happiness" by Sarah Provencal from Jack Canfield's Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV.

Anna Thomas

James Beard Foundation Award: Best Healthy Focus Cookbook, for Love Soup (2010).

BKT

Bak kut teh, a Chinese soup popularly served in Malaysia, Singapore, and etc

Book Soup

When the National Organization for Women (NOW) strongly criticized Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel, American Psycho, for glamorizing and condoning rape, Book Soup put fliers into its copies of the novel, blasting NOW for drawing attention to the book and disclaiming any approval of the novel's content.

Busty Heart

Busty Heart has done numerous TV shows, including Fox-TV's That's Just Wrong, The WB's Steve Harvey-hosted Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge season finale, Endemol TV's Private Parts on Channel 5 in England, truTV's World's Dumbest, Bravo TV's Outrageous and Contagious Viral Videos, Fuji TV Tokyo Japan "2006 Bakademy Awards", E!'s Talk Soup, and 2007 Spike TV MANswers.

Chez Raginiak

His third book, Tradition! What's your polka? was endorsed by Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul

Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul was the first book in the widely acclaimed “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series to specifically address parenting.

Chukky Okobi

He has been a member of Screen Actors Guild since 2006 and has starred in commercials for ESPN, Campbell's Chunky Soup, and the Pennsylvania Lottery.

Clown Virus

When the United States Army asks the Goodies to get rid of a large container, with the words Tomato soup on its side, they take it out to sea in an attempt to ditch it — but without success.

The Goodies sell the remainder of the mixture to British Rail (who intend to serve the mixture as soup), and to service stations (which intend to use the mixture as petrol).

Cuchuco

Cuchuco is a soup made with corn, barley or wheat and mashed beans to make Colombian cuisine soup, especially altiplano of the Boyacá and Cundinamarca Departments of Colombia.

Culture of the Virgin Islands

Callaloo (sometimes spelled kallaloo) is a soup made from callaloo bush/leaf, often substituted with spinach.

Designing with Web Standards

Tag soup pages also displayed or operated incorrectly in older browsers, and required multiple code forks such as JavaScript for Netscape Navigator and JScript for Internet Explorer that added to the cost and complexity of development.

Dominique Ansel

In November, 2013, Dominique Ansel Bakery collaborated on The Cronut™ Mission with celebrities such as Heidi Klum, Joan Rivers and the cast of several Broadway shows to raise money for God’s Love We Deliver, a soup kitchen located near the bakery in SoHo.

Duck Studios

Mickey's PhilharMagic - In 2003, director Jamie Caliri worked with Duck Soup and Walt Disney Feature Animation to create a sequence featuring characters from The Lion King.

From Langley Park to Memphis

The title is taken from a lyric to the song, "The Venus of the Soup Kitchen", and refers to the village of Langley Park, County Durham in England, and the city of Memphis, Tennessee in the United States.

Ghosts in Tibetan culture

Families clean their houses on this day, decorate the rooms and eat a special noodle soup called 'Guthuk'.

Gregory D. Hague

Mark Victor Hansen, author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books, endorsed the book.

Herringfleet

Herringfleet was occupied by the Roman Empire, and archaeologists have made a number of finds, including a Roman bronze 'patera', a 'soup ladle' vessel with the maker's name 'Quattenus' on the handle, and a Roman nether mill-stone of trachyte, originally imported from Saxony or Koblenz on the Rhine.

Horace McKenna

McKenna founded So Others Might Eat, a soup kitchen, clinic and employment center; Martha's Table, a soup kitchen and child education center; and House of Ruth, a center for homeless women.

Hulatang

Hulatang (胡辣汤), or Hu La Tang, is a kind of Chinese traditional soup, which is an important part of Chinese people's daily diet.

Irish Women Workers' Union

Helena Moloney, an Abbey actor and nationalist, became involved and with Constance Markievicz helped to organise soup kitchens at Liberty Hall during the dispute.

Jean Cayrol

When Cayrol wanted to die by refusing any further food, his life was saved by Dr. Johann Gruber, the "Saint of Gusen." Gruber gave Cayrol some "Gruber soup" in the washroom of barrack No. 20, and intervened for Cayrol to get him transferred to an easier job.

Jute

Likewise, the Lugbara of Northwestern Uganda eat the leaves as soup, locally called pala bi.

LHA Charitable Trust

In order to fund the monthly cost of the soup kitchen, Lha has partnered with the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States (U.S.).

Luigi Galleani

One Chicago-based Galleanist, chef Nestor Dondoglio, known by the alias Jean Crones, laced soup with arsenic in an attempt to poison some 100 guests, all figures in industry, business, finance, or law, at a banquet in 1916 to honor Archbishop Mundelein.

Mary Bamber

During the winter of 1906-7, Mary was on the rota of women who made soup to sell at a farthing a bowl from a Clarion caravan parked by St. George's Hall on Lime Street.

Miso soup

A cedar flask ("wappa") is filled with miso soup, fish and vegetables and it is heated by dropping in hot rocks, which quickly bring it to a simmer.

Mrs. Grass

Grass is a food brand used on noodles made by the American Italian Pasta Company (a division of Ralcorp) and a boxed soup manufactured by Wyler's (a subsidiary of the H. J. Heinz Company).

Oxtail soup

It is believed by some that oxtail soup was invented in Spitalfields in London in the seventeenth century by French Huguenot and Flemish immigrants, from the tails of animals.

Raymond Lefèvre

In 2009, Slovak avant-garde drummer, Lucas Perny, remixed and recorded drums to Raymond Lefèvre's title song from the French 1981 movie comedy La Soupe Aux Choux (Cabbage soup).

Recycling in the Netherlands

Metal cans - beverage and soup cans, although usually extracted from trash by separation techniques

Samlar machu

The sour flavour of the soup comes from the use of tamarind (អម្ពិល) and certain tangy vegetables such as tomato (ប៉េងប៉ោះ) and pineapple (ម្នាស់), as well as Tiliacora triandra leaves (ស្លឹកវល្លិយាវ).

Solano Avenue

Various live bands, most local, have played sets at the Stroll, with notable past musicians including RatDog drummer/Primus co-founder Jay Lane (with jam side project Alphabet Soup) and Marc Biedermann (founder of Blind Illusion, and former bassist for thrash metal band Heathen).

Soup dumpling

Xiaolongbao, a small Chinese-styled steamed bun filled with soup;

Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program

The Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program was originally authorized under the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 to buy commodities for soup kitchens and food banks not participating in the Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP).

Space Monkeys

The song "Drug Soup" was recorded especially for and features in the soundtrack of the Gwyneth Paltrow movie Sliding Doors.

SUP Media

SUP (Russian: СУП, which means 'soup') is an international online media company, founded in Moscow in mid-2006 by Andrew Paulson and Alexander Mamut.

Swanson

Campbell Soup spun off Swanson's TV dinner business with several other brands, including the Vlasic brand of pickles, on March 30, 1998, to a new company called Vlasic Foods International, whose name was changed to Pinnacle Foods in 2001.

Tauco

The sauce is often used as condiment and flavouring for stir fried dishes such as tahu tauco (tofu in tauco sauce), kakap tahu tausi (red snapper with tofu in soybean sauce), or in soup such as swikee oh (frog legs in tauco soup) and pie oh (softshell turtle in tauco soup).

Tiger penis soup

In 1996, the Wildlife Conservation Society, an organization that focuses upon wildlife conservation, ran an international advertising campaign stating that claims of sexual potency being enhanced from consuming tiger penis soup are fraudulent.

Tomato soup

The first noted tomato soup was made by Maria Parloa in 1872, and Joseph A. Campbell's recipe for condensed tomato soup in 1897 further increased its popularity.

Ulava charu

In Telugu language, spoken locally, Ulava (singular)/Ulavalu (plural) means Horse gram, a legume with the botanical name Macrotyloma uniflorum and Charu or Chaaru means soup.

Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Horace, having fallen out with his cousin Ricky Gilpin over Gilpin's fiancee Polly Pott, daughter of Mustard, lands Pongo even further in the soup by being dressed as a Zulu rather than a Boy Scout during a round of the Clothes Stakes, run by Pott at the Drones.

US Microbics

Robinson’s application of microbic technology for the hospitality industry ranged from the pioneering cleanout of the fuel holding tanks on the RMS Queen Mary during its "transplant" as a Long Beach tourist attraction in the 70’s, to the grease trap maintenance for odor and grease buildup at the world famous Pea Soup Anderson Restaurant (in Buellton, California), to the Buellton Wild Animal Park’s odor and runoff control.

Vyf Rand

Home of one of the poorest communities in Namibia, Vyf Rand camp has been the focus of various social projects: a primary school, a soup kitchen, and HIV/AIDS awareness programs.


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