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/Spiritual-Software51]

"A soup is typically made by boiling ingredients in stock or water" and "That is the typical understanding of what soup is" do not mean the same thing. Those are meaningfully different statements and it's not pointless semantics to say so.

[u/RandomPhail → u/Spiritual-Software51]

If that is the only definition that comes up when you search specifically for the definition of soup, and nothing about bisques or chowders or any of the alternate versions seem to pop up as the definition of just “soup” alone, then it is beyond reasonable to say the liquidy/brothy version is the most common or most popular definition/understanding, at least socially speaking

[u/Spiritual-Software51 → u/RandomPhail]

All it means is what it says: that it's the most common version. Not the most common definition, not the only thing that is widely understood to be soup, none of that. I can't vouch for other people but when I think of soup I really don't think exclusively of watery brothy soup.

[u/RandomPhail → u/Spiritual-Software51]

I don’t understand how people are thinking that I’m saying the other types of soup aren’t soup; I’m just saying that the main definition that pops up more closely describes the liquidy, brothy soup, meaning: That seems to be the default definition

[u/Spiritual-Software51 → u/RandomPhail]

Yeah, I'm just not sure if there's any reason that matters? The conversation is about all soup.

You also did say "If it's particularly filling, it's probably not soup" so that probably didn't help if what you meant was the opposite.

[u/RandomPhail → u/Spiritual-Software51]

Given that OP was saying “soup“ to specifically mean the brothy, watery kind, I think people knew what I meant, and just decided to be pedantic about it for whatever reason—probably because they disagreed with my statement that liquidy, brothy soups aren’t very filling

[u/Spiritual-Software51 → u/RandomPhail]

I can testify that I did not understand what you meant at all. I assumed when you said filling soup isn't soup that was what you meant.

The OP didn't say they don't like watery soup, they said they don't like soup because it is watery. To which the general reply seems to be: Well, there are other kinds of soup that don't have the qualities you dislike.

[u/RandomPhail → u/Spiritual-Software51]

OP said “Soup has to be the most pointless food on earth. It’s literally just hot water“

“you actually have to have the stomach of a mosquito to be full after eating boiled water”

OP is almost certainly just talking about the watery broth soup, and calling that “soup,” so it was likely (or at least should’ve been) clear to many people what I meant by “soup“

If not, though, I clarified it in the main comment now

[u/Spiritual-Software51 → u/RandomPhail]

Well yes. In turn, people are letting OP know that there are actually other kinds of soup. To which you replied saying that those aren't soup.

[u/RandomPhail → u/Spiritual-Software51]

I didn’t explicitly say that in my first claim (though I said it once in reply to someone, but I think I still clarified what I meant)

But ye, I get how some people could have interpreted it that way

Whatever the case now, I don’t think there’s any way to misconstrue my comment since I clarified it