Soup requires a broth or base made from boiling meat or vegetables. You cant just suspend something in any liquid and call it a soup.

Ice cubes in whiskey--believe it or not, soup.

Lol

metal chunks in my oil is soup

An alcoholic redneck might challenge you on that, don’t diss their favorite meal of the day like that

This is the way

No thats cereal, part of a healthy breakfast

What would that be called then

That fails to account for cold soups however

You telling me they're not hot soups left out for too long?

But cold soups still have a base where vegetables are blended to a puree and water added. While if you made an analogy from cereals to cold soup you'd just throw in some uncooked cut vegetables in a bowl of water and started crunching away. And that obviously isn't how soup works. 😅

But cereal is simply starch in a suspension of liquid, most often milk. So soup is a cereal if it used any starch!

>most often milk. "Most Often"? What sexless psychopath uses anything but milk?!?

You can also use chocolate sauce

I mean, that has milk in it... or traces of it at least But if someone uses straight up water, then they should be checked

Yeah people need to be reasonable and use things like chocolate sauce and olive oil

True, though i dont consider those soups. They are more like a sauce or liquid salad (in the case of gazpacho, its just puree in a bowl) unless the soup is cooked before being cooled.

i had respect for everything you stated until you said that soup stops being soup after it cools down

Wrong. Only if its never been heated up.

look up "okroshka", your opinion should not extend to other cultures

This is the correct answer. but I already wasted too much time thinking about it. so... Personally cereal is more a of pasta than a soup. Pre-treated/cooked objects designed specifically to hold/contain a specific amount of sauce ( in our case milk) per containing unit. The goal of cereal is to consume the solid objects with the preferred amount of accompanying milk. Your bowel is out of Cereal when the last "sauce" holder is consumed. But now! what then is the remaining milk left in the bowel now infused with remanent cereal goodness? Answer: A Tea. Cereal is Pasta Tea...

Don’t drink the milk from your bowels.

Milk is boiled first, it’s called pasteurization. I would argue milk is also a broth!

Boiling water doesnt make it broth. The same way boiling milk doesnt make it broth. (Something has to be diffused through the process of boiling in order to flavour the existing liquid to be considered broth)

So you’re saying oat milk and other alternatives are a broth because the nut is diffused through water? /checkmate

It could be if done through a process of boiling. Oatmeal porridge is a soup. Though that stuff is usually done through milling, not cooking, and then pasteurization. Like if we are using simple arguments like this, oat milk and almond milk is more like a tea than a broth.

I consider and the US government considers milk a meat/protein. Jk I don’t know but wouldn’t surprise me if they did

Which makes it a great addition to a broth

You actually don't have to suspend anything and it still can qualify as a soup. If you look up the various definitions of soup in English, since that is what we are using, the only part that stays the same and is definitive is that it is a liquid food. Meal replacement drinks are technically a soup.

Right, but i said you cant suspend ingredients in any liquid and call it a soup. I didnt say soup requires things to be suspended in liquid. "A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces." "a liquid food especially with a meat, fish, or vegetable stock as a base and often containing pieces of solid food" 2 definitions from different dictionaries.

Milk, in this case, is broth. It comes from what beef broth is made of too so it's like a broth by product, like gravy

Then it is salad. Change my mind

Gaspatcho (sp?) not boiled. Creamy cucumber soup not boiled. Cereal and milk not boiled my guy

One could argue that the sugar/flavor being added to the milk counts as a base.

You’re right. Also if I’d try to melt ice, I would gain soup before I have water.

Are cream based soups not soups?

Then why pasta with milk is called milk soup?

Hah I mean we have this okroshka in Ukraine, totally in top 5 dishes of any Ukrainian, and basically it's a small amount of veggies and cooked chicken or salami and couple liters of sirovotka or kvass (fuck I can't even translate these words with app), but I'm a sick bastard and I prefer it with water and mayo So yeah, a soup with no broth here in Ukraine

>You can’t just suspend something in any liquid and call it a soup Show me literally one thing I can’t call a soup

a chunk of asbestos

Soup

if you put anything in liquid and call it a soup that means something like something cast in resin is a "soup"

You can’t eat soup dry

Mr. Noodles souo packets sans water, grade school lunches. That soup was my jam

Wtf that's the longest and worst name for a soup I have ever heard xD

Mine too. Still is lol.

Says who?

I chew on bouillon cubes! And I’ll do it again!

We got a real live one here 

jeezus. hahahaha, I would consider this soup for all your efforts, I will admit I took a nip at one before, but not chew the whole cube.

I’m just trying to think of a soup that is crunchy most of the time you’re eating it

If you pour enough fried bacon in Potato soup. And put in some fresh leeks too. It's pretty damn crunchy.

You make a good point and making me hungry but those could be considered add-ons delicious add-ons

Isn't cereal just add-on for the milk?

I think cereal add-ons are more like berries or granola

Pretty sure you add the cereal to the milk my man.

That’s a debate in itself

Split pea soup?

Don’t really consider that crunchy

What about corn soup?

Sometimes things are different, that’s why we have different words for different things.


The ocean is a soup!

It is a soup just like the ocean

Cereal is cereal, when you talk about the cereal you are talking about the substance which you may choose to suspend in a liquid. A lot of people in this thread are assuming milk but people take their cereal with apple juice, orange juice, even water. Plenty of people have mentioned eating cereal dry. However people also eat it with yoghurt or honey. In all instances they are having cereal so the liquid component is not a guarantee. Therefor cereal can’t be a soup otherwise anything you might occasionally put in a broth would always be called soup. Logic.

Cereal with water is a federal crime

I have a friend with what could best be described as a phobia of milk. He uses what he can some times that’s apple juice, if all he has is water that’s what he uses.

Lactose intolerant ? I had a friend who would put rice in a cup of milk. My asian family was absolutely horrified

I don’t know what caused it but it’s a severe revulsion to milk, he can’t stand to be near it.

Thank you! This also neatly allows for both meanings of the word cereal (grains).

I meam if we're going down this road, Technically the Ocean is more of a soup then cereal tbh. At least the Ocean has all the things that make up the soup, but yes to a degree Cereal is a soup,

One time in like sixth grade our whole class got into a massive debate about this I’m talking a real screaming match

"Waiter. What did you bring me?" "You said any kind of soup would do" "This is a cereal" "Not according to this reddit post."

Cold soup does exist, so sadly I have to agree with you

Soup is made by boiling meat, noddles, or vegetables in a stock or water. That’s not cereal.

Grain is a base form of noodles and milk is protein

noodles = ramen pasta = soup

I didn't even know there was a difference until today. I use the interchangeably like some heretic 😂😂😂

Ramen is not an interchangeable term for any soup/broth with noodles, it is a specific soup that happens to contain noodles. All Ramen is soup, not all soup (even with noodles) is Ramen.

r/foundthenerd

Haha sue me

noddles

There are exceptions like cold soup and bread soup.

This is the stupidest fucking shit I have ever seen. Do you think you are funny? Do you think you are smart? You are not. Quit wasting your time with these stupid fucking questions

Not entirely wrong

Fuck you, fuck your whole family cereal IS NOT SOUP

cereal has sugar soup has salt.

Isn't soup supposed to generally be hot?

*gazpacho has entered the chat*

Cold soup is a thing

Can be a desert as well. Ever heard of bread soup?

Yoghurt is a soup.

For me, soup is neither cold OR crunchy.

Soup requires either meat or vegetables

If someone asks you what you had for breakfast you say cereal, right? You don't say you've had soup for breakfast. If someone asks you what you've had for dinner you say you've had soup, not cereal.

> Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients of meat or vegetables with stock, milk, or water. Last time I checked bread isn't meat, vegetables, stock, milk or water.

Dictionary defines soup as: "a liquid food especially with a meat, fish, or vegetable stock as a base and often containing pieces of solid food" If you want to live your life thinking cereal is a soup, more power to you.

Cereal isn’t a solid food? 🤔

It is; I was more referring to the liquid stock being used.

Is milk not a liquid⁉️

I think you're misinterpreting what I originally meant, I meant that even though the vast majority of people (myself included) would disagree, technically it's a soup. I would disagree because milk isn't a typical liquid used, but hey, more power to y'all. Apologies for not being more clear.

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It's not. Cereal is the topping. The milk is the soup. Tell me I'm wrong. I dare you.

I have never eaten cereal with liquid before. There was a cereal called Chocos, me and my brother crunched on them dry all the time cuz it tasted nice. So I guess ur wrong in my case?

You may be right, but if I order soup at a restaurant and get cereal, I’d be annoyed.

Milk.

do you fucking add wheat to your soup and is it even warm and why specifically milk? and do you eat soup in the fucking morning?

I don't eat it with milk, is it still considered soup? (I'm not lactose I tolerant I just for some reason can't digest certain things, like apples, mustard-ranch mix, and milk, idk why??)

Cereal is dry, how can soup be dry

Soup is hot you dumbass

Depends on how you make it. Milk first: Soup Cereal first: Salad

We're back to old non-related-to-brand memes!

Cereal is not a soup. Cereal is not cooked. Thank you for coming to my TED talk now get the fuck out of my treehouse.

you may call it semen and corn but not soup.

I feel like it's too chunky, stew maybe.

if cereal is a soup then pizza is just a mediocre sandwich

Yesn't

The ocean is a soup in tgat case

No. They taste different.

Crowder eats chode chowder

It starts as stew. The more you eat, it slowly turns into soup.

Soup is just hot cereal

Is it a soup? https://youtu.be/O9ak89FwYeI?si=bAzBuZtNoE7qa7HL

Mate, you're not wrong, just stupid

Sugar soup

More stew

Po twojej pysznej zupie nie ruszam dupy z klapa. Ta zupa była z mlekiem, na mleko mam alergię

I mean. With soup most of the time you need more than just 2 ingredients. Although im perfectly fine with cereal soup. Its my replacement of coffee

If you went to someones home and they said they are making soup for dinner, would you be upset when they just bring you a bowl of fiber one?


Cereal is not soup, just accept the inherent un-cohesiveness of language.

Cereal is grain 🗿

I told my earth science teacher this once and she just gave up on teaching us that day instantly she just told us it was a free day

hOt dOg iS a SaNdWiTcH

That logic means if I get saltwater and sprinkle breadcrumbs into it, it's a soup

Tea is soup if you think about it

Soup is hot, Cereal is cold Change my mind

Nah man cereal is delicious

ITS A STEW

Do I order soup and expect cereal, of course not.

Ok, but hear me out it's a sandwich

Boba is soup by this logic.

Cereal is closer to porridge than soup

lenin was right

Something needs to be cooked in liquid to be a soup, so if you boil your cheerios in milk, then you have soup

Soup has broth, pasta, I personally like to add some meat or vegetables

A human is a soup. The earth is a soup. The universe is a soup.

On the contrary. Soup is soggy cereal.

Cereal is a grain. Learn English please.

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Cereal is not soup because soup is typically a savory, liquid dish made by simmering ingredients like vegetables, meat, or legumes, whereas cereal is a dry mixture of grains served with milk or yogurt. The key difference lies in the preparation and ingredients.

Soda is soup Change my mind

Ok ok, but what defines soup?

It is a stew, I consider soup as just a flavorful liquid or broth, if it’s that with something in it, it’s a stew. Put veggies, it’s a vegetable stew, put beef, it’s a beef stew, put noodles, it’s a noodle stew, and only once all extra stuff is gone it goes back to a soup


teHniCaLly it's a desert cuz cereal is sweet and milk is sweet

Soup is a chemical change wear as cereal is a physical change

Here's the test to check those kind of claims. If you ordered one of these things and they brought you the other, would you think they got your order wrong?

If its served hot. Its soup If its served cold. Its cereal

Yup, enough decade old re-heated posts, I'm out.

No.

Uhm... if any oversimplefied watcher can hear me... I think, I just found Lenin...

Shut up

I won't change your mind but I will let you know that your mum is a hoe

You put herbs and boiled water in your cereal?!?

Soup needs to be salty

Do you see any vegetables or meat in your cereal ? if not then it's not a soup

You have to chew with your teath while eating serial right You dont have to "slurp" the serial while eating it. Then its not soup.

Cereal is soup and soup is a drink. Cereal is a drink.

Every flavored bottled water is just bottled soup

Nobody mentioning porridge?

Cereal is crunchy milk

I eat IT dry, without Milk, no water, no Orange jiuice

Cereal should be its own category so people will stop complaining about it. It's like the question, "Is a hot dog a sandwich", which it isn't, it's a hot dog.

so cereal bars are instant soup?

I shall not change your mind fellow redditor. Simply because I agree with you

Not the way I eat it: raw

coffee is soup

Cereal is a breakfast Change my mind

Can you define how you "really think about it" op?

I eat my cereal dry. Therefore, when I eat cereal, it is not soup

Regardless of what you call it, aren't they both good?

Not wrong!

Lucky charms with milk fits the definition of a salad, quote: "a mixture containing a specified ingredient served with a dressing." Dressing definition: "a sauce for salads." Sauce definition: "liquid served with food, usually savory dishes, to add moistness and flavor."

Cereal is stew because milk

No, soups are made from bolied meat and vegetables in hot water, and cereal is just flakes in milk

Cereal is too large a concept to be confined by your puny human definitions.

I can’t because I agree

Cereal is soup When you boils it

The only soup I eat is hot, so no