/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14504723]

Is Soup a meal?

[Anonymous No.14504791]

Unequivocally no. Jerry was just being a jew trying to weasel out of reciprocating an Armani suit (for free)

[Anonymous No.14504802]

>>14504791
What about lobster bisque, or shark fin soup

[Anonymous No.14504824]

>>14504791
Based

[Anonymous No.14504832]

Did he crumble any crackers?

[Anonymous No.14504842]

I would venture to say a bowl of Pho is a meal.

[Anonymous No.14504851]

>>14504723
Bone broth is a kind of soup that is super dense nutritionally. Throw in fish heads and chicken feet and other parts for variety.

[Anonymous No.14504858]

it depends, fucking idiot.

[Anonymous No.14504860]

>>14504842
Only if you order extra veg.

[Anonymous No.14504872]

stew: yes
soup: side dish

[Anonymous No.14504880]

>>14504723
Soup is a course. Soup is not a meal. Even Jerry, Bania’s adversary, has to acknowledge that the soup constitutes a meal only in the conceptual sense. It’s the mere act of sitting down with him that counts. And even when Elaine attempts to play Jerry’s advocate, suggesting he could make a case for “hearty” soups like chicken gumbo or mushroom barley (soups that, by the way, are really more like stews or rice dishes), even she has to bring in crackers as a way of making it just barely qualify, much like chefs will add an entire loaf of bread cut into a bowl.

Let me just say up front that I have nothing against soup. Soup is perfectly fine; it is, often, delicious. As an accompaniment to a sandwich or as a prelude to an actual meal, it can be pretty satisfying, even. But there’s a reason soup gets its own section on the menu, quarantined from the entrees, and why it’s so blithely tossed on as a soup-or-salad addendum. Nobody wants just soup. Soup is not a meal, which is why soup will always lose.

[Anonymous No.14504894]

But that guy was wrong because he was saying he ate not long before meeting Jerry so that's why he was only gonna have a soup and that it wouldn't count as a meal. If that's all he wants as his meal, it's not Jerry's problem that he ate before coming to the restaurant.

[Anonymous No.14504898]

Depends on how calorie dense it is.

Cheesy potato soup is a meal
Clam chowder is a meal

A watery Italian minestrone soup is not a meal. Ramen without protein added is not a meal.

[Anonymous No.14504956]

>>14504880
saying soups arent meals without bread is like saying burgers arent meals without fries. the bread is a side dish, but the soup is still the meal

[Anonymous No.14505100]

>>14504832
crackers in a bowl...could be a meal

[Anonymous No.14505128]

To those of (you) that say no:
Fish, potatoes and some assorted vegetables = a meal
Fish, potatoes and some assorted vegetables in some water = not a meal.
That's your mindset right there.

[Anonymous No.14505168]

>>14505128
This
It clearly is a meal.

[Anonymous No.14505385]

>>14504791
Bania is the true jew. He could have ordered whatever he wanted and he chose soup then tries to pilpul himself into getting another meal.

[Anonymous No.14505396]

>>14504723
Depends on if it's a hearty soup like potato and how large a portion you've got. Add in some bread or cheese on the side and it's absolutely a meal.

[Anonymous No.14505452]

>>14505385
Very true

[Anonymous No.14505590]

>>14504791
Jerry genuinely didn't care what he ordered, he just didn't want to have to hang out with Bania again. It was Bania being a weasel, using the pretext of a free meal and guilting Jerry with a suit he never even really wanted to force him to hang out with him

[Anonymous No.14505596]

>>14505128
Small amount of veggies = side salad
Small amount of veggies + water = a meal?

Same logic

[Anonymous No.14505607]

>>14504851
this post is terrible, bone broth isn't a thing, it's a term invented by street vendors to sell overpriced beef stock.

[Anonymous No.14505618]

>>14504898
ramen is a meal you fat fuck, there's an easy 600 calories in a bowl.

[Anonymous No.14505628]

>>14505618
and if you don't realize how sad that is go fuck yourself basement dweller