Is Cereal Soup?
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Take a look at this. Simple enough, right? But watch what happens next. Okay, what the heck is this thing? Mostly people eat it like a soup, out of a bowl with a spoon. But is it a soup? The word 'soup' comes from words that originally meant "to absorb liquid", which dry cereal left in milk too long will do. But words change. What if cereal is actually a type of salad? And milk is just a dressing? Or maybe, dry cereal is the actual meal and milk is just a condiment or a coating. Adding milk to dry cereal might be like adding ketchup to french fries, or icing a cake. Honestly, there is no real answer. The answer is whatever we agree the answer should be. We make up the words and we make up the...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Take a look at this. Simple enough, right? But watch what happens next. Okay, what the heck is this thing? Mostly people eat it like a soup, out of a bowl with a spoon. But is it a soup? The word 'soup' comes from words that originally meant "to absorb liquid", which dry cereal left in milk too long will do. But words change. What if cereal is actually a type of salad? And milk is just a dressing? Or maybe, dry cereal is the actual meal and milk is just a condiment or a coating. Adding milk to dry cereal might be like adding ketchup to french fries, or icing a cake. Honestly, there is no real answer. The answer is whatever we agree the answer should be. We make up the words and we make up the...
