in #CASE you were curious about: SOUP
February 4th is National Homemade Soup Day! What a perfect time to enjoy a nice bowl of homemade soup!
January is actually National Soup Month
The earliest archaeological evidence for the consumption of soup dates back to 6000 BC, and it was hippopotamus soup.
Americans eat more than 10-billion bowls of soup each year. Women are twice as likely to order soup for lunch as men.
Traditionally, soups are classified into two main groups: clear soups and thick soups. Thick soups are classified depending upon the type of thickening agent used: purées are vegetable soups thickened with starch.
Bouillon and consommé are both clear soup, but they are very different. Bouillon is basically a broth, whereas consommé is much more complex and is very high in gelatin. So when consommé cools, it becomes a gel.
Groucho Marx offered the following explanation for the title of the 1933 movie “Duck Soup”: “Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you’ll duck soup the rest of your life.”
The original Campbell’s Soup labels were orange and blue. They were changed after Herberton L. Williams, who became the company’s treasurer, comptroller and assistant general manager, saw the Cornell University football team play against the University of Pennsylvania. Williams was so taken with the colors of the Cornell uniforms — red and white — that he proposed the Campbell labels be changed to match.
When Andy Warhol was once asked why he painted the iconic soup cans, he said: “I used to have the same (Campbell’s soup) lunch every day for 20 years.”