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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: June 2002)

Date Item
6/27/02
CNNfn The Biz		 Susan Lisovicz reports on the TV reality show "I Bet You Will" that a person agreed to drink soup out of a stranger's armpit for money.
6/24/02
Korea Times		 The owner of Yonggum-ok, a famous restaurant specializing in chuo-tang" or mudfish soup, notes that sales fell off catastrophically in June, but he was philosophical, being infected with World Cup fever himself.
6/24/02
Copy News Service		 Laura Byrd reports on a mature cat, Jerry, that kept healthy well into his 18th year from a diet of vegetable soup.
6/24/02
The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey)		 Alex Nussbaum reports on Newark airport inspectors, including one who turned up a suitcase stuffed with a dozen cow eyeballs, destined for an ethnic soup pot.
6/22/02
CNN		 Novak, Hunt, & Shields report that House Speaker Dennis Hastert responded to House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt's outspoken upset over the trade bill: "He must have had some bad bean soup that day."
6/19/02
ABC's Good Morning America		 Diane Sawyer, in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, suggests that an all-soup channel on the cable network be created.
6/17/02
New York Times		 Steve Lohr reports on Internet/Netscape pioneer Marc Andreessen, now 30 and post-dot.com euphoria, that he has changed his diet from pizza and shakes to creamless mushroom soup, diet cokes, and salads with no dressing.
6/16/02
Maine Sunday Telegram		 Ray Routhier reports on a group of Down East weavers, all grandmothers, who have raised money by making and selling a calendar of themselves in the buff along with their favorite soup recipes.
6/15/02
Daily Telegraph (Sydney)		 In Canberra, an 88-year-old woman died after poisoning herself with poisonous mushrooms that she picked in her back yard and made into soup.
6/14/02
Associated Press		 Amir Shah reports from Kabul on Afghan fears in 1979 about the Soviet incursions, a neighborhood mullah at the time telling people that all the women would be taken to Moscow and that when people died there "they burn you and make soup out of you."
6/13/02
The Christchurch Press		 New Zealanders will celebrate Soup Week from June 17-23 this year, a time period that includes the longest day of the year.
6/13/02
Salon.com		 Douglas Cruikshank reviews Brian Preston's book Pot Planet, which notes that old people in Cambodia traditionally have made a soup out fo marijuana to use as an appetite enhancer.
6/12/02
New York Post		 Mark Cannizzaro reports that Earl Woods, father of Tiger, admits himself a humiliating round at Bethpage Black in 1974: "When it was over...I cried in my soup."
6/12/02
Seattle Times		 Sherry Gindeland reports on the roots of folk musician Bob Antone, whose parental grandfather raised him with stories of the old logging days when he and his fellow loggers lived on horse bone soup.
6/11/02
USA Today		 A. S. Berman reports on Soupsong.com as an "Oddity" in The Net: New and Notable.
6/11/02
Asahi Shimbun		 A practical joke in a Tokyo Adachi Ward Junior High School directed "Add to the Soup" on a bottle of paint thinner. One boy complied...and sickened three students.
6/11/02
The Guardian		 British journalist Engel identifies 50 reasons to love America, with the 25th being Matzo ball soup at Wagshal's Deli.
6/11/02
Washington Post		 Michael Grunwald and Amy Goldstein report on the background of Juan Padilla, aka dirty-bomb-conspirer Abdullah al Muhajir, interviewing a former neighbor at the Lake Park Gardens condo who recalls that his stepfather was so kind that he once offered her soup.
6/11/02
Africa News		 In Zambia, a young woman was sent packing by her mother-in-law, who accused her of putting love potions in the soup.
6/10/02
Daily Mail		 Ben Taylor reports on a lewd and drunken anti-drug charity ball attended by local police and constables who began the dinner by bitterly claiming that the cold soup first course was cold.
6/10/02
New Statesman		 Zoe Williams reports on the BBC Documentary on Paul McCartney that recalls the Simpson episode where he and Linda revealed, tongue in cheek, that if you play "Maybe I'm Amazed" backwards, you get a recipe for lentil soup.
6/9/02
The Observer		 David Hills reports on the World Cup 2002 Quote of the Week by Nigerian President Olusegon Obasanjo on the eve of his team's match with England: "The soup wey go sweet go need plently fire" (no sweat, no win).
6/8/02
Calgary Herald		 Tabloid headline spotted: "Maid puts panties in actor's soup to make him fall in love with her."
6/4/02
USA Today Online 		Soupsong.com featured as "Hot Site" on its webguide: "Who knew there was soup in the news ever?"
6/3/02
New York Times		 Janet Maslin reviews journalist Elizabeth Gilbert's The Last American Man about mountain man Eustace Conway, recalling his yellow-jacket larvae soup made from an ancient Cherokee recipe.
6/2/02
U. S. News & World Report		 Paul Bedard, etc. report on Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neil, revealed by Irish rock group U2's Bono as taking one tie only on their joint "poverty tour" through Africa...and it covered in soup stains.
6/2/02
Los Angeles Times		 Renee Tawa reports on L.A. restaurant Epicentre's 'San Andreas Soup," featuring two kinds of bean puree separated by a jagged line of sour cream.
6/2/02
BBC		 Inter TV highlights the plight of Ukrainian regiments waiting to be demobbed in Kiev, with soldiers lighting fires outside the barracks in Kiev to make meals of soup and porridge.