Chicken Noodle Soup part 2

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Chicken Noodle Soup is quite traditional soup. Is there any interesting fact / story or history in behind?

First, I have never thought people will make Chicken Noodle Soup as a song, but I when I google it, it pop up these two videos.

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"Chicken Noodle Soup accompanying dance has inspired many new dancers to express themselves in way such that it is commonly performed in teen clubs, parties and high school affairs in New York. Some suggest this dance phenomenon has evolved to mimic movements similar to those done in voguing."




Chicken Soup has a long history from different history. For example, Chinese use chicken soup as a soup base for various noodles such as Wonton soup. Jewish often put noodles, dumpling in the chicken soup. However, the famous name, "Chicken noodle soup" is more likely from US and Canada soup even though American and Canadian had a traditional to put noodles in chicken soup. In 1930, Campbell Soup has a product "chicken soup with noodles", but when it was advertised on the radio show by a slip of the tongue the soup was referred to as "chicken noodle soup" It's interesting that Campbell was preparing to discontinue the product of "chicken soup with noodles" due to low sales, but later on amount of people asked Campbell for Chicken Noodle Soup. Then Campbell changed the name to Chicken Noodle soup and became one of the best selling products. 


Last, when people get sick especially flu or cold, doctors encourage people to chicken noodle soup to treat symptoms. However, Chinese doctors discourage people to have chicken soup because it slows down the recovery. According to Wiki, "in 2000, scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha studied the effect of chicken soup on the inflammatory response in vitro. They found that some components of the chicken soup inhibit neutrophil migration, which may have an anti-inflammatory effect that couldhypothetically lead to temporary ease from symptoms of illness. However, since these results have been obtained from purified cells (and directly applied), the diluted soup in vivo effect is debatable. The New York Times reviewed the University of Nebraska study, among others, in 2007 and concluded that "none of the research is conclusive, and it's not known whether the changes measured in the laboratory really have a meaningful effect on people with cold symptoms."