I was asked the other day “Is cereal a soup?”
Well, my immediate answer was no because cereal is cereal and soup is soup and cereal is not soup; but I try to keep an open mind, so I considered the question again.
Reasons Cereal is Not Soup
- Cereal is cold
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- But cereal doesn’t necessarily have to be cold
- Some soups are cold
- Cereal is a breakfast food and soup is not
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- No one is stopping you from having soup for breakfast and cereal for dinner
- Cereal is Cereal and soup is soup and cereal is not soup
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- What is soup?
What is Soup?
According to Dictionary.com, soup is a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
Reasons Cereal is Not Soup: Updated Edition
- Cereal is crunchy, and therefore not entirely liquid
- Cereal is not boiled
- Cereal is not simmered
- Cereal does not contain meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients
But what if you despised vegetables (like Spinette) and refused to eat any (like a five-year-old child) and you were also a vegetarian?
- Note: Vegetarians don’t have to like vegetables. They can eat other meat-less food items like processed foods. For example, granola bars, popsicles, ice cream, chocolate, fruit snacks, gummy bears, oatmeal, Jell-O, etc.
If you were five-year-old vegetarian Spinette, then you would like your chicken noodle soup without chicken or vegetables. It would just be noodle soup. But this noodle soup does not contain meat, fish, or vegetables (like the cereal) and therefore, it is not a soup (even though soup is in the name. This is a similar dilemma as the one surrounding baby powder. There are no actual babies in baby powder as there is no soup in noodle soup).
So then what is noodle soup if not soup?
Soggy pasta, perhaps?
Jell-O has gelatin, which is made from animals. Gummy bears and fruit snacks often contain it, too. You’d have to really read the ingredients to find out which ones.
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You’re right! I’m bad at being vegetarian.
Thank you!
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Stay away from cannolis, too. Real cannolis are fried in lard, which is pig fat.
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Well, I’ve only had one cannoli, and that was before I became vegetarian, but I didn’t really like it anyway, so I won’t miss it.
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Cannolis are proof that lesser gods are worth ignoring.
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Okay.
Not entirely sure what that means.
Are you agreeing that cannolis taste bad?
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Products like cannolis and Kardashians are the golden children of lesser gods, gods that were not worth mentioning beyond an utterance during a digestive eruption of a more impressive god. Therefore, cannolis and Kardashions suck.
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🧐😕🤨😋😛🤣😂😁🤫😬
I don’t know the Kardashians beyond their name.
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This is so funny — what a creative topic 🙂
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Thanks!
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i’m a proud carnivore, but i like my vegetables. and gummy bears!
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Gummy bears are wonderful!
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I don’t know, but if you’re a vegetarian that eats just junk food and no veggies, you are technically a ‘junkatarian’. Just saying. ; p
Meno<3
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I can safely say I am a “true vegetarian” then.
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Porridge, which I would have included with breakfast cereals – but it’s simmered/boiled, it’s not crunchy and it sometimes has vegetables added (rhubarb) – does that make it a soup?
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I believe that it is a soup…
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I believe that it is not a soup…
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I guess it does! Soup for breakfast!
(But don’t trust my judgement. I’ve never even seen porridge outside of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.)
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