# Cyrillic Alpha-Bits?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-alpha-bits/348439>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 15, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-alpha-bits/348439 "2006-03-15T12:46:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-alpha-bits/348439/1 "2006-03-15T12:46:27Z")

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Just wondering this morning… are there alphabet cereals or pretzels or noodles or whatever in alphabets other than the latin? Do French Alpha-Bits have accents? Can you get Russian Alpha-Bits? How about Devanagari, Thai, Arabic, or kana?

[sub](Admittedly, with any really complex script, such as kanji or hanzi (Chinese characters), you’d proabably be better off printing the character on a cracker…)[/sub]

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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-alpha-bits/348439/2 "2006-03-15T13:46:56Z")

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I’m not aware of any cereals with alphabet in france, but then, I usually don’t buy or eat cereals.

However, when I was a kid, there were small alphabetic noodles intended to be added to soups. I don’t know if they still exist, and they didn’t have accents.

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**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-alpha-bits/348439/3 "2006-03-15T14:43:25Z")

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_Imponderables_ author David Feldman has [tracked this down regarding Alphabet Soup](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/28/earlyshow/leisure/books/main663454.shtml):

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> \*\*WHAT LETTERS DOES CAMPBELL’S INCLUDE IN ALPHABET SOUP IN COUNTRIES THAT DON’T USE OUR ALPHABET? (such as Greece, Israel and Egypt) \*\*
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> Feldman says it’s amazing when you try to track down some of these answers because the companies themselves don’t always know why their product is the way it is. Sometimes, there is no institutional memory and no one actually knows the answer. At which point Feldman has to search elsewhere for answers. After research, Feldman discovered that “alphabet soup” is only sold in North America. There is no cyrillic alphabet soup.

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**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyrillic-alpha-bits/348439/4 "2006-03-15T14:46:36Z")

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> [@clairobscur](#):
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> I’m not aware of any cereals with alphabet in france, but then, I usually don’t buy or eat cereals.

[http://www.thinkalphabits.com/french/index.htm](http://www.thinkalphabits.com/french/index.htm)

I am assuming that is for a Quebecois audience.