It is not clear who invented the alphabet soup but Knorr sold it in Europe as early as the 1910s. It is reported that as early as 1867, Raleigh's Tri-Weekly Standard made reference to the fact that letters of the alphabet were now replacing other shapes of macaroni to give "body to our broth".** In 1908, Wilbur Wright was served alphabet soup in Le Mans, France.[1]