Chicken Noodle Soup Day

March 13, 2013 at 8:24 AM | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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March 13

is

National Chicken Noodle Soup Day

Five things you should know about

Chicken Noodle Soup

1. Campbell’s first introduces ‘Chicken with Noodles’ soup in 1934
2. During a radio program on “Amos ‘n Andy”  Amos misread his script and said “Chicken Noodle Soup”.  Within a few weeks, Campbell’s changed the name.
3. Research has shown that each can of soup contains around 216 noodles measuring 32 to 34 feet of noodles.
4. Campbell’s create over a million miles of noodles for soup per year. Enough to go around the Earth 40 times.
5. According to the ingredients on the can, only 8% of the soup is chicken.

On This Day in Food History…

1764 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl, was born. Earl Grey was supposedly given the recipe for Earl Grey Tea by a Chinese mandarin with whom he was friends.
1813 Lorenzo Delmonico, famed restaurateur was born at Marengo, Switzerland. In 1851 he…

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