It's easy to imagine the origins of soup - throwing everything you have handy into a pot of water on a fire - you can even envisage it's onomatopoeic name popping into existence -
'What's in that pot?'
'What that pot?'
'Yeah that pot.'
'Uhhhhmmmmmahhh...it's....it's...soup! Yeah, it's soup. Soup.'
'Soup huh. Smells really good.'
You can see from this point the inevitable evolution of soup accompaniments like toast, bread sticks, croutons and in some parts of the world crackers.
So this week, in loving a nod to the US who have world series's for things they just do among themselves, we've decided to meet the challenge of the Antarctic vortex we're currently experiencing with an annual planet-wide/local soup celebration to be forever known as World International Soup Week. Please feel free to host your own global event, soup swap, soup group, consomathon or pop-up-toasty-dunkablitz. Email us and we'll help you publicise it.
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