The Soup Nazi (a.k.a. Yev Kasem), played by Larry Thomas, was a fictional character in the sitcom Seinfeld who required customers to his soup restaurant to follow his meticulous, seemingly arbitrary soup-ordering instructions to the letter, lest they be refused service by his insistent avowal, "No soup for you!". Some of the soups that he served were cold cucumber, corn and clam chowder, jambalaya, mulligatawny and lobster bisque. He got his comeuppance when Elaine discovered his secret recipes.
His character was based on an actual soup vendor named Al Yeganeh, who runs Soup Kitchen International in New York City's midtown area. The store is open only part of the year. In the summer, his customers are greeted with a sign indicating he has gone to "Argentina for the winter."
Yeganeh dislikes the Soup Nazi label, but he is renowned both for his excellent soups and for his rude treatment of customers.
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