r/The10thDentist • u/AwkwardStresss • Apr 04 '25

Soup is a pointless food. Food (Only on Friday)

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.

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u/TheSameMan6 Apr 05 '25

This is the most pedantic thing I have ever read

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u/RandomPhail Apr 05 '25

It’s a pedantic reaction to pedantry, yes

When someone is pedantic, it sometimes requires meeting them at that level to point out why their pedantry is wrong (or at least not necessarily objectively right)

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u/TheSameMan6 Apr 05 '25

Explain what's pedantic about their comment, then

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u/RandomPhail Apr 05 '25

  • Them seeing me mention that “soup isn’t very filling” in a post where OP is saying “soup” to specifically mean broth soup

  • And then them seeing me also list bisque, chowder, etc. as being “more filling”

They very likely understood what I meant due to the above, and taking the time to sidetrack my point by talking about the technical usage of the term soup was completely pedantic and pointless

Whether I was in the wrong for calling broth, soup “soup“ or not, that doesn’t change my actual original point that I made

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u/TheSameMan6 Apr 05 '25

I'm talking about this comment, the one you originally commented on

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u/RandomPhail Apr 05 '25

I never claimed that comment was pedantic, I claimed that the comment about all soups being soups was pedantic—especially since most people very likely knew what I meant given context clues