{"id":49490,"date":"2015-02-04T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/the-history-of-soy-sauce-packets.html"},"modified":"2015-02-04T06:48:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:48:12","slug":"the-history-of-soy-sauce-packets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/the-history-of-soy-sauce-packets.html","title":{"rendered":"The History of Soy Sauce Packets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, all of the packets we get from delivery go straight into the trash, since we have bottles of <i>actual<\/i> soy sauce (not salt-sugar solutions with caramel coloring) in our pantry.<\/p>\n<p>Personal trivia fact: When I was growing up, my family referred to soy sauce as &quot;bug juice,&quot; and my childhood brain made the leap to determine that soy sauce must come from sow bugs. I&#39;ve gotten over it, remarkably enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/02\/the-salty-murky-story-behind-soy-sauce-packets\/382469\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/35TnfGdcRyRaG1vmYFPKCy_tAbZtEYHprxZk2SnWmFVAFypMDBUs9MwPcdjGsgP4cOMuhLUC8JzMemBCGxs6z2nXLj5q9RMwxXkiFW8DIpee-r4bfv57biYcwfrSG5XhnUg=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/02\/the-salty-murky-story-behind-soy-sauce-packets\/382469\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'>The Mysterious, Murky Story Behind Soy-Sauce Packets<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHow Chinese takeout, a Jewish businessman from the Bronx, and NASA-approved packaging have shaped the 50-year reign of a well-loved American condiment\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Dw1EcmZp2gy'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, all of the packets we get from delivery go straight into the trash, since we have bottles of actual soy sauce (not salt-sugar solutions with caramel coloring) in our pantry. Personal trivia fact: When I was growing up, my family referred to soy sauce as &quot;bug juice,&quot; and my childhood brain made the leap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/the-history-of-soy-sauce-packets.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The History of Soy Sauce Packets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48524,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/margies-kitchen-salmon-in-an-asian-soy-honey-ginger-sauce-easy.html","url_meta":{"origin":49490,"position":0},"title":"Margie&#8217;s Kitchen: Salmon in an Asian Soy-Honey &amp; Ginger Sauce (Easy!)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Nov-14 7:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie's Kitchen: Salmon in an Asian Soy-Honey & Ginger Sauce (Easy!) http:\/\/bit.ly\/1AH6NCu #recipe View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1674,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/27\/product_and_pre.html","url_meta":{"origin":49490,"position":1},"title":"Product and presentation","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Nov-01 7:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Now in Funky Soy Sauce Flavor! 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