Soup, Soup, Beautiful Soup

DESCRIPTION: "Soup, soup, beautiful soup, Staff of my life it is soup. If the cheese is past eating, Just coat it with Keating, And shove it all into the soup."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: food humorous | soup
FOUND IN: Irelanf
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 132, "Soup, soup, beautiful soup" (1 short text)
Roud #25534
NOTES [68 words]: Obviously not to be confused with Lewis Carroll's "Beautiful Soup" ("Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! ... Soup of the evening, Beautiful soup"). Although this too is reportedly a parody, of E. A. Searson's 1916 text "Soup."
Keating's powder was an insecticide, reportedly based on a plant extract, so while it might stop cheese from spoiling, I doubt it did humans much good.... - RBW
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File: KSUC132A

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