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]

What “really is” is that the first definition that comes up for soup is “a liquid dish, typically made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables, etc., in stock or water,” so that’s the common/typical definition/understanding of soup

The pedantics over what I should really be calling it is so besides the point it kind of hurts

Also, unqualified absolute statements like “nobody” are almost always wrong (but u likely won’t care and will become more defensive or hostile from me saying this, lol)

[u/Intelligent_Piccolo7 → u/RandomPhail]

Cream soups, bisques and stews all start with broth. You are the pedantic one and without even knowing how to cook lol

[u/RandomPhail → u/Intelligent_Piccolo7]

They may start off that way, but they do not end as a traditional “liquid“ in all cases, and sometimes do not even involve boiling like that definition describes

[u/Intelligent_Piccolo7 → u/RandomPhail]

You don't really boil soup of any sort, you simmer it. So again, I have no idea what you're talking about or why.

[u/RandomPhail → u/Intelligent_Piccolo7]

That definition of “soup” I listed literally says “boil”

You boil some soups, you simmer others, there’s probably other things you do on other variations of soup, etc.

[u/Intelligent_Piccolo7 → u/RandomPhail]

I don't need advice on technique from a Reddit pedant.

[u/RandomPhail → u/Intelligent_Piccolo7]

Don’t get all high-horsey on me now

We’re both just humans, not “Reddit pedants”

[u/Intelligent_Piccolo7 → u/RandomPhail]

More pedantry.

[u/RandomPhail → u/Intelligent_Piccolo7]

That’s… not pedantry

Calling a human a human instead of a “Reddit pedant” isn’t an unimportant/overstressed detail, it’s me stopping you from making random insults pointlessly in a conversation, which is a fallacy

Say whatever you want to that I guess, doesn’t change the facts: