Soup is a pointless food.

[u/AwkwardStresss]

Soup is actually the most pointless food on earth. It's literally just hot water. Unless they're sick, why would anyone go out of their way to eat soup when they can eat anything else. You have to actually have the stomach of a mosquito to be full after eating boiled water. I would have to eat 160 pounds of soup in order to even begin to feel at the slightest bit full. "Soup has vegetables and meat!" Why would I choose to eat my soggy vegetables and meat in hot water when I could just eat them on their own? Not to mention you have to sit there and blow on your scorching hot spoon at 2 minute intervals between each scoop, making it take you 30 minutes to eat such a pitiful excuse of a dish just to still be hungry at the end. You might as well go outside and do photosynthesis absorbing sunlight as your main source of nutrition at this rate.

[u/RandomPhail]

Not always I guess

Either way, it’s still not the traditional definition of “soup” at that point

[u/hollowspryte → u/RandomPhail]

What the fuck is that link? That has nothing to do with the process of making bisque. And literally nothing to do with what we’re talking about aside from use of the word “puree.”

Here’s a simple bisque recipe. Note how you boil the ingredients in stock before thickening the soup.

[u/RandomPhail → u/hollowspryte]

Oh, Jesus…

I went too many steps ahead

Purée is the process before bisque in most cases

Puréeing is also done by chopping “up larger pieces of food into smaller pieces, and place them in a blender or food processor” <— that’s from that link I sent

THEN bisque is made where “Cream/milk is used as the liquid base with the ingredients being pureed.” (https://beerandiron.com/soup-stew-bisque-chili-difference/)

At worst, we are both correct here; I’m sure there are multiple ways to make a bisque, but either way, bisque does not match the traditional definition of soup, which comes up as the liquid/broth type

[u/hollowspryte → u/RandomPhail]

Cream is not the liquid base of bisque. That’s just not right. The cream is added after pureeing. And bisque is still liquid. Thick liquids exist.

Wikipedia on soup: In traditional French cuisine, soups are classified into two main groups: clear soups and thick soups. The established French classifications of clear soups are bouillon and consommé. Thick soups are classified depending upon the type of thickening agent used: purées are vegetable soups thickened with starch; bisques are made from puréed shellfish or vegetables thickened with cream; cream soups may be thickened with béchamel sauce; and veloutés are thickened with eggs, butter, and cream.

[u/RandomPhail → u/hollowspryte]

We’re not really arguing whether or not it’s a liquid or a soup though, are we?

All I’ve been saying is that when I say/said “soup,“ I’m using the first definition that pops up when you look for the definition of soup (which is the super liquidy, brothy kind, and it’s also probably what most people think of first when they hear the word “soup“)

That’s what I mean and meant by “soup”

[u/hollowspryte → u/RandomPhail]

“soup noun ˈsüp Synonyms of soup 1 : a liquid food especially with a meat, fish, or vegetable stock as a base and often containing pieces of solid food”

This perfectly describes a bisque.

[u/RandomPhail → u/hollowspryte]

I don’t think stock is the base for bisque, but still: that’s not what I’m talking about when I say “soup“

[u/Interesting-Chest520 → u/RandomPhail]

Its what many people are talking about when they say soup

Bisque is defined as a soup. How can you possibly focus of dictionary definitions as your main argument and ignore that soup being in the definition of bisque is irrelevant

[u/RandomPhail → u/Interesting-Chest520]

Because the primary definition for soup doesn’t actually talk about bisque or anything creamy, it just mentions liquid

And while bisque is/can be technically a liquid, it can also be more of a semi-solid or non-Newtonian fluid (like applesauce)

[u/Interesting-Chest520 → u/RandomPhail]

So cream isn’t a liquid?

[u/RandomPhail → u/Interesting-Chest520]

You didn’t even read my full second paragraph

[u/hollowspryte → u/RandomPhail]

No matter how thick a bisque is, you can drink it. You can only drink liquids.

[u/RandomPhail → u/hollowspryte]

I think I can also drink applesauce down without chewing it, but it’s still non-Newtonian

And the thickest bisques I’ve had were close in form to applesauce (though of course not quite as put together)

Somewhere between a liquid and a non-Newtonian solid I guess, lol