Food: Soup: Alphabet
Alphabet Soup with Punctuation   (+4)  [vote for, against]
So you can make proper sentences.

Heck, need I say more?
-- spacecadet, Jan 28 2004

Hey, any lawyers around, could noodle manufacturers be responsible for the declining reading abilities of many children? Class action lawsuit anyone?

"... in a separate filing a Hispanic community charge Campbell for including ?'s in their new Hooked-On-Phonics edition noodle soup, but not a single ¿ ..."
-- kbecker, Jan 28 2004


Hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey...hey. . . hey,hey,hey,hey,h-h-h-hey now!
-- Kitchensink, Jan 29 2004


Damn... comma... won't... stay... on... my... fork...
-- Fishrat, Jan 29 2004


What we really need is alphabet soup with spaces.
-- kropotkin, Jan 29 2004


how do the colons stick together?

is there an operation to reverse that?
-- po, Jan 29 2004


how do you get the upside down ?
-- yabba do yabba dabba, Jan 29 2004


I suppose I need another ? after that first ? .
-- yabba do yabba dabba, Jan 29 2004


I'm going to be practical here. (Shocking.) I wonder if the pasta extruders Campbell's must use for their soup noodles could handle a noodle as small as a . or a ,.
-- dagonet, Jan 29 2004


The punctuation would be the same size as the letters.
-- spacecadet, Jan 29 2004


//how do the colons stick together?// Embed the dots in transparent noodles (Mung bean noodles).

That brings up the idea of making whole sheets from bean-noodle material with embedded text. For 4th of July have halfbaked lasagna with the Declaration of Independence written on each layer.
-- kbecker, Jan 29 2004


Good one, [spacecadet]. + And accents for the French among us.
-- lintkeeper2, Jan 30 2004


How about a spell check tossed in with the alphabets. I am sure Microsoft would be pleased by this. +
-- nomadic_wonderer, Feb 01 2004


I guess you could do this, and accommodate some other European languages at the same time, with just a dot, a straight line, a comma, a parenthesis, and a question mark crook. Then maybe things like the caret/circumflex, tilde, and cedilla (or just use the q.m.) for export markets. Changing letter counts to match their local frequencies, to maximize the number of words to be found, might be a nice touch. Then start thinking about how to break into China (romanization would be cheating).

Also, the 'question mark crook' would be a good Hamburgler-type mascot.
-- Monkfish, Feb 01 2004


Ever noticed how cooked crushed up spaghetti kinda looks Arabic? no ok...
-- Johnny Mash, Feb 02 2004


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-- xandram, Feb 10 2021



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