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Soup in the News

(Archive Dateline: October 2004)

Date Item
10/31/04
Ottawa Citizen
Hugh Adami reports that Montreal Canadien Pierre Dagenair explained his modest willingness to accept a salary cap during the National Hockey League lockout: "Do I have a say in this? I'm just a noodle in a bowl of soup."
10/27/04
The Australian
Some 250 stories on this so-called "Soupgate"! Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was assaulted with a mug of pea soup after Sunday's match by an unidentified Arsenal player in full view of police...no one charged in the incident.
10/27/04
Fitness and Wellness
The Center for Consumer Freedom is airing an anti-obesity television ad featuring Soup Nazi Larry Thomas as "food cop," ordering customers to weigh in and to get in the healthy salad line.
10/25/04
BBC
Pyongyang Radio reports on the Korean custom, North and South, of cooking red bean soup on the Winter Solstice Day--demonstrating solidarity between the nations.
10/25/04
AII Data Processing
AC Neilsen reports that Argentina soup consumption rose 30% year-on-year for the first half of 2004.
10/22/04
Associated Press Worldstream
Amnesty International, denouncing "illegal and arbitrary arrests" in Haiti, considers making priest Gerard Jean-Juste a prisoner of conscience, following his arrest when police stormed into his presbytery while he was dishing out soup to scores of children.
10/22/04
The Express
An 87-year-old Berlin man who applied for a patent to open a restaurant serving soup laced with urine has now applied for a patent on a banana-straightening device.
10/22/04
Vancouver Sun
Hannah Milman describes Halloween eyeball soup: several small, round scoops of mozzarella decorated with olive-slice eyes served in a steaming bowl of tomato soup.
10/20/04
London Evening Standard
David Spittles reports on unusual food demands at Hyatt hotels--including a Chinese diplomat who asked for his favorite soup make from a snake's heart.
10/18/04
Associated Press
Esquire magazine has selected its annual "Weirdest Dish": smoked watermelon soup with mango and olive emulsion, served at Chicago's Moto restaurant.
10/18/04
Associated Press
Marian Betancourt reports that the national soup of South Africa is butternut squash soup.
10/18/04
Washington Post
Joshua Partlow reports that the winner of St. Mary's National Oyster Cook-Off prepared a cramy oyster jalapeno soup.
10/17/04
Jerusalem Post
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich reports on the obesity research of 2 Israeli scientists that hypothesizes that Bush won the 2000 election based on his diet before the first debate: Al Gore was nervous from the ketosis process of his Atkins diet while Bush was calm and happy from eating Laura's high-carb potato soup.
10/17/04
The Advertiser
Owen J. Pinkerton reports on the piranha soup eating of an Earthwatch volunteer in Brazil's remote Pantanal region.
10/17/04
The People
Tiania Stevens reports on television trivia, including that the vomit on the tv drama Casualty is made form Weetabix, fruit salad, applejuice, and soup.