| 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. |