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Is cereal soup?
- Thread starter jokkir
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I like to keep this stuff simple. If someone asked me if I would like some soup and then brought be a bowl of cereal I would think either they were trying to fuck with me or lost their mind, so not soup in my book.
No, because the milk in cereal is used to soften or moisten the cereal. You're not creating a broth with it, which is the definition of soup. You can slurp the milk with sugar in it afterward of course, but the steeping of the cereal in the milk is not the primary appeal, and in fact many people eat the cereal as fast as they can to prevent it from becoming too soggy. The dynamics of cereal with milk simply don't match the dynamics of soup, and to call it soup is to fundamentally misunderstand what soup is.
No. Broth is savory.
No. Broth is savory.
The definition of broth is irrelevant to my question, nothing is prepared in the liquid, the prepared liquid is just poured over an ingredient.
Who said it does?
No. Cereal isn't doing the things soup is trying to do. I agree with the Wikipedia definition.
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. Hot soups are additionally characterized by boiling solid ingredients in liquids in a pot until the flavors are extracted, forming a broth. Soups are similar to stews, and in some cases there may not be a clear distinction between the two; however, soups generally have more liquid (broth) than stews.[1]
What about the chocolate powder coming off the Cocoa Puffs or the cinnamon sugar coming off the Cinnamon Toast Crunch and mixing with the milk to change the flavor of the liquid?
What about pouring the milk on the Rice Krispies to prepare the experience of the snap, crackle, and pop?
No. It's just cereal grains, usually served in milk. Cereal by itself isn't even liquid, and it isn't made from any kind of broth or stock. If you look at it funny, it might be seen as a kind of cold porridge, but it might be better to call porridge a kind of hot cereal.
It's not soup simply because nobody calls it soup. There's no scientific path to call it a soup akin to animal taxonomy. Pointing out definitions ignores the biggest rule in the book about how people literally use words. If you can convince everybody to envision cereal when they think of types of soup, then you probably have a better argument.
No. Cold soups still have some kind of preparation done to them other then pouring it in a bowl.
Vegetarian is just no meat. Dairy and eggs are fine.
Clam chowder in a bread bowl is a clam chowder sandwhich. And you should pick it up and eat it as such.
No stock = no soup
It's the most basic ingredient of the dish to the point where the poor would eat hot water flavored with stock and no other ingredients.
It's the most basic ingredient of the dish to the point where the poor would eat hot water flavored with stock and no other ingredients.
You use vegetable stock in vegetarian soup. Milk is not a stock.
There is often no stock in vegetarian chowders. Its just milk spices and veg.
Also asian soups are often made with coconut milk instead of stock.
Okay, assuming all soup requires a stock. Could milk be considered a stock if you take in consideration that cows consume grass, that grass is then processed (by the animal) to produce the milk? It's a stretch, but by the time the milk hits the bowl it's no longer a beverage or condiment because the cereal pieces rely on the milk.
everything you eat automatically becomes soup in your tum tum, so when you think about it you can't eat anything other than soup
Remember these words are interchangeable, so it would also be smart to call soup cereal as well. Your contemporaries will respect and appreciate the fact that you've opened the world up before them. When I'm not feeling well I like to eat some nice hot chicken oodle cereal.
No, it's a salad.
The Cube Rule
Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it's clearly a taco.
cuberule.com
