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A vanilla mocha is a 3 bean soup
- Do not like.
- Use soy milk to make it a 4 bean soup.
Just a heads up, this was posted yesterday.
- 🤌💋
- And it's a repost of the only @The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
  
  Who largely outsources with credit, but the point stands. I only brought it up initially since there's a chance the mods (including the man himself) could remove it.
- My client currently shows both posts adjacent to each other, lol.
  Oh would you look at that, both are upvoted and it seems to be staying that way!
Hot dogs are tacos. Cereal is nachos.
- Wtf? Even my descriptivist ass is telling whoever came up with that that they're wrong. A burrito is a calzone? An enchilada is sushi? Words mean what you mean when you say them, but they also need to have some structural stability. Out here calling sushi toast. Wtf.
  
  You poor unsaved soul. No, sushi (such as pigs in a blanket) is sushi. Toast (such as nigiri) is toast.
  
  Ugh. How awful. How could a burrito be a calzone when a calzone is a ravioli?
- When the true Cube Rule believers are rewarded with all manner of toast, sandwiches, tacos, sushi, quiches, calzones, salads, cakes, nachos, and muffins, you'll be sorry you plied your tasteless heresy this day, filthy food miscategorizer! I bet you call hot dogs "sandwiches" like a true troglodite!
- But if those are served in a bread, cereal is quiche
- Nachos are open faced sandwiches
  
  A common misconception. You see, nachos are foods composed of a starch within a substrate of non-starch. What you're calling "open faced sandwiches" are a form of "toast" in which non-starch sits atop a layer of starch.
It's gazpacho
- Pardon me, maître d', but this Fruity Pebbles is not warm.
- It's just a little dirty, the pigs still good
There is an argument regarding morning soup?
- Depends if you call the sandwich next to it a grilled cheese or a melt
- No
In my world, calling cereal a soup is like calling a grape an apple. Soup is not an encompassing category, soup is a genericized standalone object, along the lines of a platonic form. The same is true of a hot dog. When we reference a BLT as a sandwich, it is simply referencing the generic, rather than the specific, it's like referencing a tissue rather than a kleenex.
Within this framework, there are no real sandwiches. There is no real soup. That utensil you might eat it with? Not real either, champ.
My answer to this is "technically it is but shut up"
I don't need this crises right now
Cereal is a salad
Only some cereals are soups. Lucky charms in milk is a soup. Frosted Flakes in milk is not. A soup has to be a collection of different ingredients in a liquid medium.
Is Trix a soup? I have no clue.
/fight_me
- Milk is soup. Tomato soup is soup. Tomato soup with crackers is soup. So frosted flakes is soup.
- Silly. Trix are kids.
  
  Four of them, to be exact
A hotdog is a taco. Starch on 3 sides.
Is cereal soup, no since milk is optional
Wasn't every meal technically soup?
- Salad
  
  Ah yes, the salad theory 😁
The purpose of language is communication. If I were to say "I had soup for breakfast" when I really had cereal, it would probably communicate the wrong idea. Cereal is not soup, and it is not necessary to produce a robust, cereal-excluding definition of soup to defend this point.
No. Wet cereal is gross.
- Then it’s just trail mix. Or, if it’s American cereal, candy.
  
  Dry grape nuts aren't candy.

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