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I'm Truly, Deeply Curious If You Think These Foods Count As Soup Or Not

Is cereal a soup? Let's discuss.

Hello, thank you for joining this very important and pressing conversation about one of life's greatest mysteries — what exactly is a soup?

A picture of various soups with concerned questions like "are these all soup?, probably soup?, to soup or not to soup?, and what is soup?" written on it

Now, because I am a human who knows how to use Google, I've provided you with the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of soup so we're all on the same page. It is as follows:

Soup defined as "a liquid food especially with a meat, fish, or vegetable stock as a base and often containing pieces of solid food"

There are a lot of foods that feel like they probably could be soup, but I want answers and I want them now! So naturally, I am asking you — the good people of the internet — to decide this once and for all:

Thank you very much for participating in this ~souper~ important research study. Do you have a strong defense for one of your answers? Are there any soup-like foods we missed? Let us know in the comments below!

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