Do you eat soup or drink soup? Reading an Agatha Christie where everyone is drinking soup whilst I am eating my soup and now I’m not sure what I’m doing anymore.
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I chew any sufficiently warm or thickened liquid if it is considered "food" and not "drink." Teeth clanging together on that chicken broth but they ignore coffee just fine. I try not to. I fail.
Soups like clam chowder require chewing while your basic tomato 🍅 soup can be sipped along with a nice grilled cheese 🧀 sandwich. Yikes, now I’m hungry 😋
Maybe it depends on the soup? Back then they had consummé all the time, which I presume would be sipped; something heartier would be eaten, I guess? Either way, the butler definitely didn’t do it 😂 The butler is never the culprit in any of her books
I never thought about whether it's in a bowl or a cup or if you're using utensils... Does it have solid food in it or is it just broth? If it's broth, you're drinking it. If there's stuff in there that you chew, you're eating it. Maybe that's just me?
Eat a bowl of soup but drink a cup of soup.
Why? Cause language just rolls that way now and again.
You're on a train, in the restaurant car, in a seat, at a table, thinking about this.
Now my lackluster language and understanding of vocabulary is running through this exercise of how many forms and meanings of "consume" and the like can I string together in a legitimate sentence. Like that 'buffalo' sentence, lol.
I will 100% be imagining tiling a vessel to pour liquid into your mouth if you say drinking. This may not be technically accurate, but that's the image you'll be putting into my head.
Soup is a food. Soup isn’t a drink. You eat a food. You drink a drink. You eat soup. You don’t drink soup. I will die on this hill. If anyone out here is drinking their soup I will personally drink you and see how you like it.
You eat chunky soup (stews), slurp medium soup (chowders etc), and drink thin soups (bisques to broths). There are subcategories, I am sure. It's a whole thing. You're doing fine!
The English used to be really into puréed soups and other soups without chunks of food in them, and used those round saucer-shaped spoons to drink/eat them as part of a multi-course meal.
I think it’s served IN a bowl! Though I know that Victorian or Edwardian dinner services would have called them plates, and they were quite shallow, often with rims. You can’t serve a liquid ‘on’ a plate unless it’s a thick sauce or dressing that won’t run off.
I thought about this just last night! I made a cream of mushroom soup with beef stock, but added finely chopped celery, mushrooms, and onions. It was soup that had to be chewed...so I thought, is this the way? Or should I purée? It was good -- either way!
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I eat vegetable soup, and I drink tomatoe soup.
Yes to any of these and I'd accept they are drinking soup.
Back in 1930s soup was possibly thinner more like a broth.
Love Agatha Christie. In 2022 I read them all as much as possible in the correct order. It took me all year.
Why? Cause language just rolls that way now and again.
You're on a train, in the restaurant car, in a seat, at a table, thinking about this.
It's could be a slide-scale, too.
The broth, the actual liquids of the soup, I drink. Whether via spoon or slurping doesn't matter.
For the chunky bits, the veggies, protein, and/or noodles, I eat those.
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That’s my take, and I was beautifully brought up!