A fruit merchant named Joseph
Campbell and an icebox manufacture named Abraham Anderson shook hands in 1869 to form a business that would become Campbell's Soup. The company
originally sold canned tomatoes, vegetables, jellies, soups, condiments and minced meats. In 1897 Dr. John Dorrance
a chemist working for Campbell's Soup invented condensed soup which made it possible to make a 10-1/2 ounce can of soup for a dime, versus the 30 cents for a typical 32 ounce can. The idea to use soups in recipes
originated in 1916. Americans use more than 440 million cans of Campbell's Soup per year.
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