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Is soup a food or a drink?

  • Food
  • Drink

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(CliChé Guevara) #2

As a professional cook, it is classified as a food.

(Rufin) #3

If it was a drink it’d be a drink with chunks of meat and noodles floating in it. No thanks.


But its liquid i thought that qualified it as a drink? Ofcourse if you put meat chunks in it it becomes semi food/drink

(CliChé Guevara) #5

There really is no debate on this.

(Stephanie) #6

Yeah, I think any soup with solids is definitely a food. The argument could be made that a simple broth with nothing else in it could count as a drink. And occasionally it’s somewhat semantic… the main difference between a butternut squash purée soup and a fruit smoothie is heat and the shape of the container.

(🌟 Imgur Gold 🌟) #7

This will probably end up going like the debate on cucumbers, tomatoes, paprika/bell peppers etc. Are they fruit or vegetables? Well, they’re both. Botanists classify them as fruit, while chefs consider them veg.

(Stephanie) #8

I pretty much agree, but devil’s advocate… the fact that soup size options are often “cup” and “bowl” could be a little confusing. Very few foods are served in cups.

(Stephanie) #9

In this case, I meant culinary fruit.

(🌟 Imgur Gold 🌟) #10

I was typing my comment while you were apparently submitting yours. It was not a response to you :slight_smile:

(CliChé Guevara) #11

“Cup” referring to measurement, though.

Edit: though it has evolved to actual cups and mugs over time.

(Stephanie) #12

I think this particular point is interesting because one easy distinction could be that a food is something you chew and a drink is something that you just sip and swallow. (giggity.gif)


So it all boils down to (Pun intended) the thickness of said liquid food?

(CliChé Guevara) #14

No, soup is food.

(🌟 Imgur Gold 🌟) #15,5753,-50664,00.html

I’m with the spoon guy. Although it may lead to a cross-cultural problem to hinge the definition on any eating tool.

(Stephanie) #16

That’s sort of my point. If I serve you consommé in a coffee mug, and you drink it, rather than eating it, then it’s not entirely wrong to say it’s a drink.

Perhaps this is a false dichotomy, and some soups are in the center of the Venn?


Im gonna pour tomato soup in cup and drink it in front of you and Gordon Ramsay just to spite you guys! “Look at me I’m doing it wrong”

(CliChé Guevara) #18

It may come down to preparation time, not including instant soup mix because that’s just salt in a bag.

(🌟 Imgur Gold 🌟) #19

Another way of looking at it

If it’s sweet and/or not-salty > drink
Anything else, but probably umami flavored > soup

(Stephanie) #20

That just made me remember that Campbell’s makes these:

Some have solid bits, some don’t. But by design, you drink them from the container like a cup, no utensils involved.