where did the phrase "is it soup yet" originate?

Answer 1

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Well, that line was from an old TV commercial for Lipton Soup. It was some kind of add boiling water to it to make the soup stuff and the kiddies at the table would ask Mom if it was soup yet.

Don't know which was worse, the commercial or the soup.

Answer 2

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Well. the fact is that a lot of meats that most people aren't familiar with eating really do taste like chicken, and since chicken is a meat that most people have eaten, it was a good way to describe how the less eaten meats taste. For example, armadillo, frog, alligator and turtle really are similar to chicken. Hence, tastes like chicken. I agree, though, that it is used too much and about things that have nothing to with the phrase itself.

Answer 3

no - years ago, it was sort of a cliche - when you asked someone who a different meat tasted, let's say rattlesnake, they almost always answered "kind of like chicken" whether the meat was snake, or buffalo or whatever. i think it is partly because it is difficult to describe how a meat tastes, and maybe also to convince kids to eat it - most kids are OK eating chicken. But somewhere along the way, people started using it in a more joking manner, to describe the taste of everything from beetles to worms to humans.

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Answer 5

People used to say, "Soup's on" meaning on the table. So when folks wanted to know if the meal was ready they would ask, " Is it soup yet?"