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Alphabet soup is usually a prepared, canned Tomato Soup with letter-shaped noodles. It is traditionally popular with American children, and may be served by parents or schools to encourage young children to learn To Read .

Spelling words with alphabet-soup noodles is usually a mildly tolerated form of "playing with food".


METAPHORICAL SENSE


In the Metaphorical sense, the term is used to describe an abundance of Abbreviations or Acronyms . In this sense, the term goes back at least as far as Franklin D. Roosevelt's Alphabet Agencies of the New Deal .

In the United States one of the most common targets of the term is the Federal Government on account of the mulititude of agencies that it has spawned, including the NSA , CIA , FBI , USSS , BATF , DEA and INS .

At times, the Central Asia n Republic s (such as Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan ) that gained independence after the fall of the Soviet Union have been called "alphabet soup countries" because of their long and consonant-filled names.