Celebrity Soup Facts:

• Elvis Presley often enjoyed potato cheese soup with French fried onion rings on top.
• Judy Garland was on an MGM Studio slim-down diet of chicken soup.
• Howard Hughes lived on soup after withdrawing from the world and living alone in sealed hotel rooms.
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy almost always had soup and a sandwich for lunch.
• Queen Victoria’s favorite soup of chicken and ham became known as Queen Victoria Soup.
• Minnie Mouse loves smoky cheese soup.
• Abraham Lincoln celebrated his inauguration as 16th president with mock turtle soup.
• George Washington often dined on vegetable soup with fried bread.

Bouillon Facts:

• Bouillon was originally a clarified liquid in which meat, poultry, or vegetables had been cooked.
• The forerunner of bouillon cubes and instant bouillon was a slowly boiled stock cooked to jelly consistency and dried in the sun. This dry concentrated bouillon became known as Portable Soup or Pocket Soup.
• The use of bouillon can be traced to 18th-century France.
• In the 1980s, the Bloody Bull was the hottest drink on Wall Street. The drink was a Bloody Mary with bouillon.
• The word "bouillon" is derived from the French word, "boulir," meaning "to boil."
• Bouillon has been a key ingredient in European kitchens since the 1800s and was used to enrich gravies, soups, and sauces.
• In the early 1900s bouillon was literally unknown to the average American cook.
• There is actually a Castle of Bouillon dating from 1076, now a tourist attraction in the Belgian province of Luxembourg.
• "Bouillon" is the 36,215th most popular last name in the United States.

Wyler’s Facts:

• Silvain Wyler and his wife, Arma, founded the Wyler Company in 1931, and began by importing bouillon from Europe.
• Wyler & Company started with seven employees and one product, the Chicken Bouillon Cube.
• Initially, Wyler & Company imported bouillon products from France.
• Wyler’s^® completed a state of the art manufacturing facility in 1965 for its Wyler’s Bouillon and Soup products. It was considered to be the most efficient, high-quality bouillon process in the country.
• In 1967 Wyler’s^® developed its first national advertising campaign.
• In the mid 1960s, the Wyler family donated a personal gift of more than $2 million that enabled The University of Chicago to begin construction of the nation’s newest children’s hospital.
• In October 2000, Wyler’s broke the Guinness Record for the World’s Largest Bowl of Soup - 662 Gallons!

Soup Facts:

• The English word "soup" originated from the Middle Ages word "sop," a bread slice over which meat drippings were ladled.
• Soup and sandwich were born of European influence.
• From all archaeological evidence, soup dates back to 6000 B.C.
• In the U.S.A. it is estimated that 2.2 billion soup and sandwich meals are consumed a year.
• During a typical two-week period in the U.S.A., 65% of households serve at least one bowl of soup.
• Vegetable soup has become a healthy meal staple in the last decade because of the photochemical compounds found in vegetables that may fight cancer.
• It is thought that chicken soup has natural healing powers for the common cold.

Soup Sayings:

• "Soup is sensitive. You don’t catch steak hanging around when you’re poor and sick, do you?"-Judith Martin
• "It’s a comforting sort of thing to have," said Christopher Robin. -House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne
• "Soup’s On" is a familiar expression that dates back to Shakespeare’s The Dying Nun Ballet, and to this day means dinner is ready, whether it’s soup or not!