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Is Cereal Considered a Soup?

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 Is Cereal Considered a Soup?

By Lydia Greene | September 23, 2021

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Sometimes it feels like the rules of food are arbitrary. I recently learned
that brunch has a delineated start and end time, and don't even get me
started on breakfast foods. What makes a scone different from a
crumpet, and where do biscuits fit in? Soup is another one of those
foods that seems to defy explanation. It can be made of basically
anything, and it can be cold or hot. This brings us to the question of the
day- is cereal considered a soup?

Cereal is Cereal, Soup is Soup

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Cereal is Cereal, Soup is Soup
 Well, they're both mostly liquid and are served in a bowl, so why not? I
looked up the definition of soup at dictionary.com, and this cleared up
some confusion. Soup is "a liquid food made by boiling or simmering
meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients." So, to answer
this burning question, based on dictionary.com, cereal does not count
as a soup. Unless you eat your cereal full of boiled meat, fish, or
vegetables, that is.

Using this perspective, soup is mostly defined by its preparation. From

tomato soup to chowder to chicken noodle soup, soup is made from
boiling solid foods in liquid. The liquid can be water, cream or chicken
stock, and it seems like the solid ingredients can be any meat, fish or
vegetables.

However, this definition doesn't account for gazpacho, a cold soup from
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 However, this definition doesn't account for gazpacho, a cold soup from
Spain that is made by pureeing veggies, chilling and serving. It never
gets simmered or boiled, and yet it is most definitely a soup! There are
also sweet soups that are never boiled, for instance Chè Thái, a
Vietnamese sweet soup that is considered a dessert, a soup, and a fruit
cocktail at the same time. It seems that this topic needs more
investigation...

Cereal Soup

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If you check the Merriam-Webster dictionary, soup is defined as "a

liquid food especially with a meat, fish, or vegetable stock as a base
and often containing pieces of solid food." In this definition, a bowl of
soup doesn't necessarily have meat, fish or vegetable stock as a base.
Based on this, any liquid food with pieces of solid food would be
considered a soup, so cereal would count!

This definition really opens up the possibilities for soup, leading us to

question every liquid dish that contains solid food in it. Is a bloody
mary a soup? What about a root beer float? Where does it end? In this
school of thought, maybe a hot dog is a sandwich and ketchup is a
smoothie.

Using this assessment, the milk in your cereal is akin to the broth in a
soup, and the cereal pieces themselves are the solid food. In this case,
no matter which cereal grains you choose, your cereal is breakfast
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 soup. The cheerios, corn flakes or lucky charms in your bowl of cereal
are floating in milk broth, making up a cereal soup!

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is cereal soup
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 The more we research this absurd question, the more complicated it
seems to get. Wikipedia lists different kinds of soup, and "cold soup" is
shown as a variety. However, in the list of specific soups, breakfast
cereal is not mentioned. So where does this leave us?

It seems to me that, like many things in life, there's no right answer.

This is a question you must answer within yourself, based on the
definition of soup that you most resonate with. If it feels right to accept
cereal into the food group of soups, do it! Your breakfast experience
will be forever changed. However, if you feel that it would be a
disservice to either cereal or soup to combine their identities, keeping
them separate is equally respectable.

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