"Soup is liquid comfort” has appeared on a few lists of food quotations, but there is no obvious source of the saying. The term “liquid comfort” has long been applied to alcoholic drinks. A 1996 newspaper article about chicken soup stated: “As a broth, it is liquid comfort to precede the main dish.” A 2002 newspaper article stated: “Tomato soup is liquid comfort.”

“Soup is liquid comfort” has shown up on food quotations lists since 2007.


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Soup is liquid comfort.
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Soup is liquid comfort.  ~Author Unknown

3 February 1966, New Orleans (LA) Times-Picayune, “Chicken Soup Combined with Rice, Scallions,” sec. 5, pg. 3, col. 4:
In most families, chicken soup is many things. As a broth, it is liquid comfort to precede the main dish.

14 October 2002, The Progress (Clearfield, PA), pg. 10:
Tomato soup is liquid comfort.

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Soup is liquid comfort.  ~Author Unknown

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Soup is liquid comfort