Chicken soup is very popular in the U.S. and a common meal for sick people or people suffering a head cold... The commercials are actually pretty accurate I think :o)


>>>What is it with jews and chicken noodle soup!? :-)
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>>It's easier to make (especially when it comes out of a can) than chicken matzoball soup? <g> FWIW, I make really good chicken soup, and often do go ahead and put matzoballs in, but for lunches, canned soup will do.
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>In just about every US film involving jewish people I've ever seen, there's always a point where someone's sick, and an aunt or grandmother arrives bearing chicken soup. Makes me smile. :-)
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>BTW, hope you don't mind but one of my favourite jewish jokes I once heard, told by a jewish commedienne was:
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>A guy falls in a swimming pool and his drowning. His mother runs around shouting "Please Help! My son (the doctor) is drowning!"
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>:-)
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>>>>She's not being ornery. She really tastes it differently.
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>>>She makes me laugh with her "It's too spieeeecy!" cry, esp. with toothpaste :-)
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>>Yeah, you make me realize that toothpaste has always been an issue for me. Another thing I had trouble tolerating until I was an adult.
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>>Tamar
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>I must be getting old; I can remember white toothpaste!
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>I can also remember when there was just one tube in the bathroom, not one for mum, one for dad, another one for the kids and maybe a "Milk Teeth" special