Soup Appreciation and Discussion thread

[timmy kerman]

SOUP APPRECIATION THREAD

I noticed there was a lack of threads concerning soup in these forums, a dastardly issue which desperately needed to be remedied.

So here it is!

This thread is for the general discussion of soup, such as sharing your favourite kind or giving tips on making it, simply voicing your love of it, or sharing recipes. Enjoy! Oh, and discussing the whole “cereal is a soup or is it not” is absolutely and completely banned.

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[Fizzlebop Smith]

I love soup. Mostly during the colder months, but a poor choice for my first attempted life companion in the game r/outside saw me shouldered with 95% of the tasks related to domesticity.

Combine this with a 60+ hour work week for the majority of my Early adult experience and I developed a healthy love for soup and all things single dish.

My Current Favorites

Chili will always rank at the top. While typically more of a stew in traditional compositional make up, I feel the 10 million variations of this recipe give it a great deal of traction in the race.

(I even put beans it it despite what the entire state of Texas proclaims subjectively as an objective truth)

 

I am also in love with Cauliflower bisque with black beans. Omg. If I'm feeling froggy I roast some Cauliflower with cracked pepper to go in the soup as a *fixin'*

 

One of the things I made a great deal when .. not quite as old.. Cabbage stew. A timeless staple of the poverty stricken since the potato tried to slay Ireland.

Simple Tomato based stock. 

Chicken Broth, Celery, Carrots and Onions for the base. (Mir Paise or something).

Cook it down in a pot while putting a good sea on some seasoned chicken. After sear put in oven until temp.

Add tomatoes and yummy stuff cooking with chicken (musshies, green peppers, what evers) into pot. Add kidney beans and simmer with tons of cabbage.

Best part do immersion blender needed.

I probably forgot something as coffee was not part of my soup fueled reverie.

 

[Vanamonde]

I enjoy soup. 

[Scarecrow71]

Well, first we need to define what soup is.  According to the definition in Wikipedia:

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Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients of meat or vegetables with stock, milk, or water.

Why is the definition important:  Because cereal is served cold, and combines ingredients with milk.  So I ask you:  is cereal actually soup?

[Kevin_kerman]

45 minutes ago, Vanamonde said:

I enjoy soup. 

yes, soup is good

[DDE]

Two days straight without soup (=first course) is a serious abnormality.

[SunlitZelkova]

2 hours ago, Scarecrow71 said:

Why is the definition important:  Because cereal is served cold, and combines ingredients with milk.  So I ask you:  is cereal actually soup?

Doesn't have meat or vegetables so no.

[GuessingEveryDay]

@Souptime

[Fizzlebop Smith]

3 hours ago, Scarecrow71 said:

Well, first we need to define what soup is.  According to the definition in Wikipedia:

Why is the definition important:  Because cereal is served cold, and combines ingredients with milk.  So I ask you:  is cereal actually soup?

 

2 hours ago, Kevin_kerman said:

yes, soup is good

THIS

1 hour ago, SunlitZelkova said:

Doesn't have meat or vegetables so no.

The vegetable need not resemble anything remotely close to it original shape, but i argue most cereal is processed wheat or corn.
Ah, lucky charms my new favorite Gazpacho.

[Scarecrow71]

1 hour ago, SunlitZelkova said:

Doesn't have meat or vegetables so no.

Where is it written that you can't put meat or vegetables in cereal?  In fact, a lot of cereal is made from corn.  Corn Flakes, for starters.  Corn Pops, too.

[Mr. Kerbin]

My basic reaction  to literally any solid food in a drinkable liquid. (Never had cereal.) (Eggs also bleh.) props to you who do not gag

[Kevin_kerman]

10 hours ago, Mr. Kerbin said:

My basic reaction  to literally any solid food in a drinkable liquid. (Never had cereal.) (Eggs also bleh.) props to you who do not gag

How do you live like this?!?

I live off soup

[SunlitZelkova]

@Fizzlebop Smith @Scarecrow71 Corn is a fruit, or at most a grain.

If we are using the guideline that does make corn a vegetable, cornflakes and other cereal would not count as vegetables because they are not eaten “like vegetables.”

[Scarecrow71]

@SunlitZelkova

Ok, so assume corn is a fruit.  Does that make tomato soup no longer a soup as tomatoes are fruit and not vegetables?

[Mr. Kerbin]

The tomato (US: /təmeɪtoʊ/, UK: /təmɑːtoʊ/), Solanum lycopersicum, is a plant whose fruit is an edible berry that is eaten as a vegetable. 

[Mr. Kerbin]

On 2/28/2025 at 3:36 AM, timmy kerman said:

“cereal is a soup or is it not” is absolutely and completely banned.

 

[SunlitZelkova]

4 hours ago, Scarecrow71 said:

@SunlitZelkova

Ok, so assume corn is a fruit.  Does that make tomato soup no longer a soup as tomatoes are fruit and not vegetables?

No, because tomato is taken as is and then made into soup. Corn goes through a process to become a flake before being added as part of cereal. Thus cereal is not a soup because the "corn" used in it is no longer in vegetable form.

Corn is only a vegetable if eaten as corn. Turning it into popcorn, or a flake, makes it no longer a vegetable.

[Scarecrow71]

10 hours ago, Mr. Kerbin said:

The tomato (US: /təmeɪtoʊ/, UK: /təmɑːtoʊ/), Solanum lycopersicum, is a plant whose fruit is an edible berry that is eaten as a vegetable. 

Using this logic, you have just turned every fruit into a vegetable.  All berries grow on vines, same as the tomato.

7 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:

No, because tomato is taken as is and then made into soup.

So does that turn all smoothies into soup?  Fruits are taken as is and then liquified without other processing.

7 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:

Corn goes through a process to become a flake before being added as part of cereal. Thus cereal is not a soup because the "corn" used in it is no longer in vegetable form.

What about fideo soup then?  Fideo is a warm broth with noodles in it.  Noodles are neither fruit nor vegetable, and they are processed to become noodles.

[Fizzlebop Smith]

Yes. 

Indeed the semantic Olympics can make an argument for many non traditional soups like cereal.

Stew, Porridge, Soup, Broth have a deal of overlap with the constant goal of any culinary enthusiast to challenge the established norms.

 Noodles have long been staples in many soup like dishes. 

Noodles have many similarities to my cornflake.

No meat / veggie

Egg Drop Soup

Consume

Cream of Mushroom

Legume based soup

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Fizzlebop Smith

[Scarecrow71]

25 minutes ago, Fizzlebop Smith said:

Yes. 

Indeed the semantic Olympics can make an argument for many non traditional soups like cereal.

Stew, Porridge, Soup, Broth have a deal of overlap with the constant goal of any culinary enthusiast to challenge the established norms.

 Noodles have long been staples in many soup like dishes. 

Noodles have many similarities to my cornflake.

No meat / veggie

Egg Drop Soup

Consume

Cream of Mushroom

Legume based soup

 

I'm just trying to find out where the arbitrary line is being drawn.  And so far, I can't seem to figure that out, mostly because one argument for something not being soup seems to forget about all the other things that would become soup using that same logic.  Which defaults me back to my original statement where I said we need to define what soup is before we can appreciate all of its awesomeness.

[Souptime]

Wow, a whole thread dedicated to me?  How sweet! 

[Bobbejans]

soup is amazing i like tomato soup but there is also another that i am a big fan of it is a Dutch soup called snert you all should try it at least once 

[Mr. Kerbin]

14 hours ago, Mr. Kerbin said:

eaten as a vegetable. 

 

[AlamoVampire]

My favs are my grandfathers chili (i wish he was still alive to make it, he passed in 2008), canadian cheese, beef vegetable, french onion, and a nice chicken noodle soup. Maybe cream of mushroom and a good potato soup too. 114703022025