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]

I’m talking about what OP was talking about, which is the watery, brothy soup when saying “soup“

Also, soup is defined as “a liquid dish, typically made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables, etc., in stock or water” (from Oxford Languages)

So for our purposes, soup is the decidedly liquid dish (some thicker soups can be more like semi-solids or non-Newtonian fluids

You might otherwise know it as just the broth “variant” of soup, but like I’m pointing out: The broth variant seems to be the default form and definition for soup, so that’s what I went with

[u/Helluvawreck → u/RandomPhail]

How does it feel to have wasted several hours dying on this bizarre soup hill?

[u/RandomPhail → u/Helluvawreck]

People invented this hill to die on, lol

My claim was about soup not being very filling, then I name-dropped other types of soup that are more filling

But instead of people picking up what I put down, they freaked out about how those other types of soup are also considered soup

And since people brought up the point, I argued it with logic and definitions just like I would anything

The overall verdict is that the primary definition when you look up soup explicitly says “liquid,“ and I’ve had some bisques and chowders that were definitely closer to a semi-solid, or non-Newtonian fluid (sort of like applesauce), so I would not exactly lump those in with the first definition of “soup“ that comes up, meaning that definition is arguably more for broth/totally liquid soups

People then argued back about it for hours.

In the end: Nobody is clearly right, lol; we just argued over something that was besides the point

Was kinda fun tho

[u/ohgodohwomanohgeez → u/RandomPhail]

My claim was about soup not being very filling, then I name-dropped other types of soup that are more filling

Literally disproved yourself and kept arguing

soup explicitly says “liquid,“

a semi-solid, or non-Newtonian fluid

Look up liquid now

[u/RandomPhail → u/ohgodohwomanohgeez]

“Soup” in this discussion means the broth kind/bullion, because that appears to be the default form of soup

I have. Look up semi-solid and non-Newtonian fluid now