All it took was one botched soup order to change TV history.

Back in the early ’90s, a young TV writer named Spike Feresten was grabbing lunch at a then-legendary, line-around-the-block soup stand in midtown Manhattan — until he broke the unwritten rules and was promptly turned away. No soup for him.

A few years later — on Nov. 2, 1995, exactly 30 years ago this week — Feresten turned that humiliating lunchtime rejection into an iconic Seinfeld moment, making “No soup for you” one of the most quoted lines in sitcom history. “The next morning, it was all over the New York media,” he tells THR . “It’s still the thing I’m known for. It’s always Soup Nazi.”

All it took was one botched soup order to change TV history.

Back in the early ’90s, a young TV writer named Spike Feresten was

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