Is soup a drink?

Rosie_Scope
Rosie_Scope Posts: 5,644 Scope Online Community Coordinator
edited October 2023 in Coffee lounge
From the team that brought you the Great Potato Debate comes another important question that plagues us all.

I asked this in the Ask Anything game this morning, but it definitely requires some further exploration.

What is soup? Are chunks an important factor? If a soup is a smooth liquid meal, does this mean smoothies are soups? Are milkshakes soup? We have so many questions.

So let us know...

Is soup a drink?

Is soup a drink? 10 votes

Soup is 100% a drink
10%
Rosie_Scope 1 vote
Soup is not a drink, what are you on about?
50%
Sandy_123[Deleted User]durhamjaide2001C_JWhatThe 5 votes
It depends (please specify)
40%
[Deleted User]OverlyAnxiousJessieJAlbus_Scope 4 votes

Comments

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,746 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    It depends (please specify)
    I think the amount of solids and the viscosity play a very important role in this. 

    But also if chunks are a sign of it being a soup, is bubble tea a soup? 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,991 Championing
    Oh this is a hard question...

    I haven't used my vote yet as I don't know and I think it's a big responsibility and want to get it right!

    I suppose it is served a meal and the other drinks you mention are not served as meals, though some people do use special milkshakes instead of meals I guess...
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,309 Championing
    It depends (please specify)
    I think it depends on the how the user ingests it. 

    Slurp straight from the cup/bowl - drink. 

    Lift to mouth with spoon - meal.

    Though personally the texture puts me right off anything like that...even reading the OP I was on the cusp!  :#
  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 925 Trailblazing
    It depends (please specify)
    If it's thin like a consommé, beef broth etc., then I count it as a drink.
    Thick & velvety or with chunks, I count it as a soup.
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,056 Championing
    Soup is not a drink, what are you on about?
    Yeah its a meal even in a cup 
  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 5,644 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    Soup is 100% a drink
    Interesting, very interesting! Some very good points so far.
  • C_J
    C_J Online Community Member Posts: 715 Empowering
    edited October 2023
    Soup is not a drink, what are you on about?
    It is a tricky one but I voted meal when anyone had been ill my nan always recommend chicken soup with the advice "oh but you have to eat something".

    Even today if I've been unwell and off my food I will have soup (although not always chicken soup) sometimes in a mug or if I feel like some bread with it in a bowl. I guess back then they thought it was it lighter on the stomach.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 3,883 Championing
    Soup is not a drink, what are you on about?
     
    If a soup is a smooth liquid meal, does this mean smoothies are soups? 
    No, smoothies are smoothies

    Are milkshakes soup? 
    No, milkshakes are milkshakes

    Ps can I change my vote or have I made a terrible mistake (again)?


  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,746 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    It depends (please specify)
    Alas @whatthe we cannot mess with polls, that's beyond our power.  You'll have to live with your decision now. ;) 
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 13,809 Championing
    Soup is not a drink, what are you on about?
    I definitely don't think it's a drink because we class yogurt as a food but in the same way it's the same as soup 

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