Chicken Noodle Soup: A Classic In American Culture

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People generally enjoy soup it’s warm, tasty and nutritious but which soup is truly the best? Chicken noodle soup is a classic in American culture it is easy to prepare and cheap to make. People also believe that chicken noodle soup may have the ability to cure the common cold whether this is fact of fiction isn’t known for sure. Chicken noodle soup was popularized in the 1930’s when Campbell’s soup began mass producing canned variants of the soup. These canned variants became very popular and Campbell’s still make chicken noodle soup to this day. Chicken noodle soup is practical only costing around one dollar and sixty eight cents in the United States. Chicken noodle soup only takes around fifteen minutes to prepare. Chicken noodle soup generally has noodles although many people enjoy putting dumplings in instead. …show more content…
Pho is usually made with chicken or beef, rice noodles and several different herbs for taste and slight medicinal value. Pho originated in Vietnam but its influences come from the french who showed them to make soups with beef instead of chicken. The Vietnamese tinkered the french soup to their own liking in the early 1900’s and the soup began to spread across asia and the Pacific eventually making it to china, where it spread to the rest of the world. In chinese Pho is called “ 牛肉粉” which sounds like (new row tang) which literally means cow meat

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