r/malcolminthemiddle • u/collinsig • 1d ago
Question of the Day
That theme song lives in my head rent free.
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u/RegyptianStrut 1d ago
I’ve had this argument and the answer is no simply because even cold soups are cooked at some point even if they’re later chilled and that’s not really true for cereal pasteurization aside
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u/illustriousplanet 1d ago
Aren't the cereals baked?
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u/RegyptianStrut 1d ago
Hmmm yeah but like not in the “broth”
I guess if you microwaved cereal it’d be soup
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u/illustriousplanet 1d ago
Think I'll just stick to keeping my soups and cereals separate, but thanks for the sickening suggestion!
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u/angelwolf71885 10h ago
Grape nuts are a soup then you’re supposed to microwave them before consumption
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u/angelwolf71885 10h ago
The cereal is baked and the milk leaching the flavor and dyes from the cereal
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u/theboned1 1d ago
It's already called cereal. It can't be soup!
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u/RegyptianStrut 1d ago
“Horses are already called horses, they can’t be mammals” is basically your logic here
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u/Jalex2321 1d ago
It's not, it's not cooked.
Soup definition doesn't consider any solid floating in any liquid. If cereal was a soup, then hot chocolate is a soup, as it has marshmallows added, or root beer float... and so on...
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u/Epigonias 16h ago
A soup is broth, or stock, plus ingredients. Milk is not broth. Therefore, cereal is not soup.
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u/Plus-Dragonfly-9975 1d ago
No. All soups are warm to some extent even if cold while cereal is not traditionally heated. You could argue the ocean is more of a soup then cereal
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u/collinsig 1d ago
Gazpacho is a cold soup.
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u/Jalex2321 1d ago
It's a purée, that is served as soup.
Gazpacho isn't cooked, it's a blended paste with very liquid consistency.
Yes, many people classify it as a soup but it doesn't fit the definition of cooked. If you remove that definition then cereal has a case of being considered a soup.
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u/Rockinsabi 1d ago
You’re not the boss of me now.