TOHEROA SOUP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 156, 3 July 1936, Page 3

TOHEROA SOUP

' GROWING LONDON SALE. Toheroa soup, once the delicacy of a select few in England, is now becoming available to the man in the street. 'There arc four -shops in London where he can walk in and order a bowl tor the modest sum of fourpencc. If the ambitions of a firm controlled by Australians are realised it is likely that toheroa soup will be on sale in 400 shops trroughout the country and will also be sold on the Continent. Strangely enough, toheroa has become known to the public through the medium of milk bars, which were introduced in London only last August, when the first appeared in Fleet Street. Iced milk and fruit drinks sold well while the warm weather lasted, but during the long, dull English winter there was no demand for them. Hot milk drinks therefore made their appearance, ami soups were introduced, with tomato juice being added later. Toheroa soup was not asked for immediately, for the reasons that it was comparatively unknown and that Jew people were able to pronounce the name, and also because its colour did not appeal to them. New Zealand oyster soup was the name decided upon instead of toheroa, for a few months and the use of large quantities of milk gave the liquid a lighter colour. Now t'hc soup is sold under its own name.