Soup is a food. You can (verb) drink the liquid but it is not a (noun) drink. If you're thirsty you're not going to drink soup. While eating soup, you drink something else along with it. Soup has too much sodium and protein to be a drink.
No but horseradish isNo, the real question you should be asking is, is mayonnaise an instrument?
soup has a viscosity low enough to be slurped unlike gravy, that's not a fair comparison!
if you're a maniac yesGravy absolutely can be slurped.
This is technically correct.sure, you drink it, so it's a drink.
the more important question you should be asking yourself is, are all drinks beverages?
if you're a maniac yes
This is technically correct.
Soup may be a liquid, but isn't a beverage, considering that for many soups, you use utensils to consume them and slurp the broth or stock.
Technically you could do that with water. You could also drink soup from a cup. Only problem is that either of those would get you weird looks. So can social norms keep something from being classified as what it teeechnically is?This is technically correct.
Soup may be a liquid, but isn't a beverage, considering that for many soups, you use utensils to consume them and slurp the broth or stock.
You could also drink soup from a cup.
Well we have Cup a Soup here which you do just that with.Technically you could do that with water. You could also drink soup from a cup. Only problem is that either of those would get you weird looks. So can social norms keep something from being classified as what it teeechnically is?
Traditional brown gravy is much more slurpable than American white gravy.
Milk, flour, and crisco.How is American white gravy made