Cereal, a food we all know and love. You can eat in the morning, evening, and night. Essentially, cereal is the perfect meal, due to its flexibility and variety, so what’s there not to love about it?

There’s also soup, another food that we all know and love. You can also eat it during the morning, evening, and night, as well as in hot, cold, and room temperature. Not only that, but it also has flexibility and variety, having multiple different kinds of soup.

These are two very beloved and very well liked foods that many people from all around the world enjoy. But what if I told you that many think it’s the same thing?

Many people consider cereal a soup because cereal and soup have many similarities. Soup is a primarily liquid food which is made by putting things like meat or vegetables in a warm broth. 

Soup is typically served hot but can be served cold. Cereal is described very similarly to that, by putting the cereal inside milk (usually cold), and eating it with a spoon. 

Both are similar because they both are typically eaten with bowls, and using a spoon to consume it.

Both involve having a sort of food in a larger liquid and eating it like that, or in other words solid chunks in a large liquid consistency. 

There are a vast variety of reasons as to why people tend to see cereal as a soup.

One of the most common arguments defending cereal as a soup is that since there can be cold soup, and that cereal can be classified as such. They also say that they can both be eaten at any time.

On the contrary, people who don’t see cereal as a soup say it doesn’t  count, since soup is usually a meat or vegetable, something in which cereal isn’t. 

Furthermore, another thing they tend to say is that cereal is typically eaten cold, while soup is typically warm.

Nevertheless, those who say cereal is a soup like to say that soup isn’t always eaten warm, and that some soups, such as avocado soup or fruit soup, would usually be eaten cold, and not eaten hot like most other soups.

However, since soup doesn’t contain anything like meat or vegetables, cereal wouldn’t typically be classified as a soup, since it lacks the ingredients to be called such a thing. 

In conclusion, in most cases, cereal would not be classified as a soup, since it lacks most common ingredients shared with soup. However, things like things or more opinion based, so feel free to think cereal as whatever you want it to be.