Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Original Soupman" in English language version.
The morning after the episode aired, the phone started ringing at the production office with media requests pouring in from the East Coast: "The Soup Nazi" was a sensation. New York media had caught on to the fact that the show was sending up Soup Kitchen International on West Fifty-Fifth Street, where Manhattanites lined up daily to suffer abuse from soup chef Al Yeganeh in the name of getting a cup of his heavenly broth. (It wasn't the first time Yeganeh had broken into pop culture; in the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, Meg Ryan's newspaper writer character pitches her editor a feature story on him, though she doesn't give him a name: "This man sells the greatest soup you have ever eaten, and he is the meanest man in America. I feel very strongly about this, Becky; it's not just about the soup.") After America learned of the Soup Nazi, reporters flocked to interview Yeganeh, only to suffer more abuse -- and capture him cursing Seinfeld for branding him a Nazi.
The morning after the episode aired, the phone started ringing at the production office with media requests pouring in from the East Coast: "The Soup Nazi" was a sensation. New York media had caught on to the fact that the show was sending up Soup Kitchen International on West Fifty-Fifth Street, where Manhattanites lined up daily to suffer abuse from soup chef Al Yeganeh in the name of getting a cup of his heavenly broth. (It wasn't the first time Yeganeh had broken into pop culture; in the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, Meg Ryan's newspaper writer character pitches her editor a feature story on him, though she doesn't give him a name: "This man sells the greatest soup you have ever eaten, and he is the meanest man in America. I feel very strongly about this, Becky; it's not just about the soup.") After America learned of the Soup Nazi, reporters flocked to interview Yeganeh, only to suffer more abuse -- and capture him cursing Seinfeld for branding him a Nazi.
