I don't need this shit right before bed.

But since you asked... How much cereal do you have to add before it becomes a whole-grain chowder?

The cube rule decided this. Cereal is wet nachos.

Taxonomists exist for a reason, y'all!

Cereal belongs to the genus Granum and the family Lactoi but indeed they belong to the same order as soup, or Pulmenti. And while these taxonomies don't always line up with food evolution theory, we at least believe oatmeal and cereal are cousins from a similar ancestral food. Soup just happens to be a common, perfect form, like crabs.

Chicago deep dish pizza = casserole

I would say it's much closer to gruel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruel

Although soup, stew and gruel are all supposed to be cooked before eaten.

Wet Salad.

Cereal is just crunchy instant porridge.

Does dipping Oreos in milk make it soup?

Is a Pop-Tart ravioli?

Tomatoes are fruits... which means salsa is a fruit salad.

I'm just going to quit eating. It's become way too complicated.

What is a soup? A broth? Some vegetables? Using a bean stock, mixed with a little sugar and maybe another bean for flavor, like vanilla, and a splash of cream you can see a latte is a bean broth bisque.

Only if you heat it up.

Cheerios in cold milk = not soup

Porridge = soup

Ketchup is a smoothie.

Whenever people complain about "legalese" or technical language, I always think of the hotdog/sandwich thing. Abstruse nomenclature exists for a reason!

A hotdog is a taco.

Can you eat soup dry? Then no they're different.

Unsure, but coffee is definitely bean soup.

Cereal is only soup if you boil the cereal in the milk.

So oatmeal is soup, a bowl of cold Cheerios isn't.

And before anyone comes up with "but borscht is cold" it is still boiled to create the soup and then chilled before serving. You're not just tossing cold beets and water together and calling it soup.

Relevant Vsauce

How many sandwiches are in a salad

whiskey is ketchup