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No food tantalizes our taste buds more than a bowl of soup. It warms you up and satisfies those niggling hunger pangs too. But how much do we really know about our favorite meal? Here are six Souper trivia facts: - The word soup comes from the French soupe which translates as soup or broth. And this derives from the Vulgar Latin suppa, bread soaked in gruel. The word soup most probably comes from the bread over which this broth was poured, called a sop or sup. - The earliest recorded archaeological evidence for the consumption of soup goes all the way back to 6000 BC. Apparently, our ancestors enjoyed coming home to a delicious serving of hippopotamus soup. - Americans consume more than 10 billion bowls of delicious soup every year. The fairer sex is more than twice as likely to order soup for lunch as their male counterparts. - Soup was so important in the Ottoman army (the Janissary Corps) that the

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