Cup-a-Soup is an instant soup

Instant soup

Instant soups are a kind of soup. They are produced on an industrial scale and treated in different ways for preservation. Usually instant soups, especially instant noodles, are dried, canned, or treated by freezing....

 product sold under various brands worldwide. In the United States

United States

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 and Canada

Canada

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 the product is manufactured and marketed by Unilever's Lipton

Lipton

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 brand, and in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 under the Continental

Continental (Brand)

Continental is a manufacturer of side dishes and recipe bases in Australia. It is a subsidiary of Unilever....

 brand. In the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 the product is sold as Batchelors

Batchelors

For unrelated subjects with similar spelling see Bachelor.Batchelors is a brand of predominantly dried food products. It was formerly a Company founded in 1895 in Sheffield, England. The company now makes instant soup, in particular Cup A Soup and noodle products such as Super Noodles. The company...

 Cup-a-Soup, a brand which is now owned by Premier Foods

Premier Foods

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. In the Netherlands

Netherlands

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 it's sold under the Unox brand. In South Africa

South Africa

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 it's sold under the Knorr brand.

The soup is made by pouring the soup sachet into a mug

Mug

A mug is a sturdily built type of cup often used for drinking hot beverages, such as coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. Mugs, by definition, have handles and often hold a larger amount of fluid than other types of cup. Usually a mug holds approximately 12 fluid ounces of liquid; double a tea cup...

 or cup, filling the mug with hot water and stirring the mixture.

Some flavors include minestrone

Minestrone

Minestrone is the name for a variety of thick Italian soups made with vegetables, often with the addition of pasta or rice. Common ingredients include beans, onions, celery, carrots, stock, and tomatoes....

, chicken noodle, tomato soup

Tomato soup

Tomato soup is a soup made from tomatoes. It may be served hot or cold, and can be made in many styles. It may be smooth in texture, but there are recipes which include chunks of tomato, cream and/or chicken stock. Popular toppings for tomato soup include sour cream, and croutons. Tomato soup is...

and chicken & vegetable

Chicken soup

Chicken soup is a soup made by bringing to a boil and then simmering chicken parts and/or bones in water, with various vegetables and flavorings. The classic chicken soup consists of a clear broth, often served with small pieces of chicken or vegetables, or with noodles or dumplings, or grains such...

. Low-calorie versions also exist in the UK, under the name slim-a-soup, and include slightly different flavours, such as mediterranean tomato.

2007 saw the introduction of 'Cup-a-Soup Extra', individual sachets of soup and pasta sold in a variety of flavours, including cheese and broccoli (with tagliatelle), chicken and mushroom (with pasta), minestrone, and Tangy Salsa Tomato.

Recently, there has been a new release of a jar featuring approximately 12 servings.

Cup-a-Soup is a product from Unox, which is an Unilever brand, from Oss

Oss

Oss is a municipality and a city in the southern Netherlands, in the province of Noord Brabant.- Population centres :-Transportation:* Railway stations: Oss, Oss West, Ravenstein- The city of Oss :...

 in the Netherlands. It's worldwide distributed under various brand names of Unilever.

Classics

• Chicken & Vegetable
• Chicken Noodle
• Cream of Chicken
• Cream of Mushroom
• Hearty Beef
• Pea & Ham
• Pumpkin
• Spring Vegetable
• Tomato

Croutons

• Creamy Chicken
• Creamy Chicken & Corn
• Creamy Mushroom
• Creamy Mushroom Bacon & Sour Cream
• Creamy Potato & Bacon
• Creamy Pumpkin
• Creamy Seafood Bisque
• Creamy Vegetable

Hearty

• Chilli Con Carne
• Dutch Curry & Rice
• Garden Vegetable
• Italian Minestrone
• Pea & Ham
• Roast Chicken
• Spanish Tomato
• Tomato, Bacon & Chilli
• Vegetable & Beef
• Winter Vegetable

Xtra Full

• Beef Stroganoff
• Chicken N Sweet Corn Chowder
• Flame Grilled BBQ Chicken
• Pepper Steak
• Smoky Beef N Bacon

Canada

• Beef Vegetable
• Chicken Noodle Original Recipe
• Chicken Noodle Supreme
• Cream of Chicken
• Spring Vegetable
• Tomato with Croutons

Classics

• Asperge
• Broccoli Crème
• Champignon Crème
• Champignon Ham
• Chinese Kip
• Chinese Tomaat
• Erwt
• Franse Ui
• Groente
• Hongaarse Goulash
• Indiase Kerry
• Kip
• Koninginnen
• Prei Crème
• Rundvlees
• Spicy Tomato
• Thai Spicy Chicken
• Tomaat
• Tomaten Crème
• Toscaanse Tomaat

Specials

• Bospaddestoelen
• Broccoli Ham
• Geroosterde Paprika & Tomaat
• Groene Asperge
• Italiaanse Tomaat
• Pomodori Tomaat
• Pompoen
• Romige Mosterd

Regular

• Beef and Mushroom
• Chicken and Mushroom
• Chicken Noodle
• Country Vegetable
• Cream of Tomato
• Creamy Mushroom
• Hearty Beef
• Lamb and Vegetable
• Rich Oxtail
• Thick & Creamy Chicken and Vegetable
• Thick & Creamy Butternut

United States of America

• Chicken Noodle
• Cream of Chicken
• Hearty Chicken Noodle
• Tomato
• Spring Vegetable

Ingredients

Batchelor's Cup-a-Soup Extra ("A Great Big Hug in a Mug") Minestrone

Minestrone

Minestrone is the name for a variety of thick Italian soups made with vegetables, often with the addition of pasta or rice. Common ingredients include beans, onions, celery, carrots, stock, and tomatoes....

 with Pasta

Pasta

Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, now of worldwide renown. It takes the form of unleavened dough, made in Italy, mostly of durum wheat , water and sometimes eggs. Pasta comes in a variety of different shapes that serve for both decoration and to act as a carrier for the...

 lists the following ingredients as served (greatest first): Water, Pasta (18%), Vegetables (5%) (Carrot 2%, onion, peas (0.5%), leek), maize starch, potato starch, sugar, salt, flavouring (contains milk, barley), glucose syrup, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate

Monosodium glutamate

Monosodium glutamate, also known as sodium glutamate or MSG, is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, one of the most abundant naturally occurring non-essential amino acids....

, disodium-ribonucleotides, parsley, yeast extract

Yeast extract

Yeast extract is the common name for various forms of processed yeast products made by extracting the cell contents ; they are used as food additives or flavourings, or as nutrients for bacterial culture media. They are often used to create savory flavors and umami taste sensations. Monosodium...

, hydrogenated vegetable oil)

In popular culture

Cup-a-soups featured prominently in the Reeves and Mortimer sketch 'Slade in Residence' with the band being avid consumers of the instant soups.

Pluralisation

Grammarians have argued as to the correct plural form of Cup-a-Soup. Some believe the correct form is "Cups-a-Soup", whereas others contest that being a registered trademark the correct form is "Cup-a-Soups". The International Trademark Association

International Trademark Association

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's position is that trademarks should always be used as adjectives rather than nouns, which would make the correct plural "cups of Cup-a-Soup soup".

External links

• Cup-a-Soup website
• Dutch Cup-a-Soup website
• South African Cup-a-Soup website