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Do you eat or drink soup? It is now the cause of much debate around the office.
Hanne, Norwich, UK
- You eat it from a soup dish, but you drink it from a mug.
Geof Walker, London, UK
- Definitely eat. We don't seem to have this problem with other liquid food stuffs. No one would suggest that we drink gravy, or ketchup or baked beans in sauce, so why soup?
Seth, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Surely you slurp it, particularly in the office?
Anthony Lappin, Rome, Italy
- Surely it depends if you're using a spoon or not? If you use a spoon you're eating, if you're slurping it out of the bowl (or indeed mug) then you are drinking it.
Jill, Reading, UK
- Does it not depend on the consistency of the soup i.e. how lumpy it is, or how many "bits" it has in it?
Katherine, London, UK
- Probably both. If you chew the soup, you are eating it. If you swallow it without chewing, you are drinking it (or about to choke).
Stephen Grasser, Salluit, Canada
- Does a baby eat or drink its milk? As it's a liquid you might say "drink", but as it is food, as opposed to drink, you should perhaps say "eat".
Richard, Twickenham, England
- You sup soup at supper, I suppose.
Steven Beerco*ck, Enna, Italy
- I would say you eat soup, I do because I always eat it with bread. However, what does it matter? Our minds are not wide open and we can't seem to accept the fact that we just consume soup in any way we please.
Steve Millington, Worcester, UK
- In Africa, you eat soup with fufu or garri or pounded yam. So we call eat 'eat soup.' You use your fufu to collect the soup and eat it, though some people drink or lick the remainder of their soup when their fufu is finished. But generally you eat soup.
Obinna Udenwe, Abakaliki Nigeria
- Usually I just spill it. Haha
kevin wilson, peterhead scotland
- You eat and drink soup, especially if you have chunks of meat and veggies in the soup you would eat them, and finally slurp up the broth.
clarence hodges, jr., st. louis, missouri Repbulic of Korea
- I think we normally drink soup without any solid food in addition but eat it with other solid foods.
Fafa, keta ghana
- I'd say you drink soup but if you have chewable stuff inside such as corn or pieces of chicken, then you eat it!
Alex, Dallas, USA
- food is anything solid or liquid which when taken not the body, provides it with various nutirents essential for growth. We eat food. Soup is food and therefore logically speaking we eat soup
paakwesi, kpando ghana
- You eat soup from a bowl with a spoon, you can drink soup from a mug, hence "cuppa soup". But my wife still thinks she's right, she thinks you drink it.
Reece , Oxford, UK
- It depends. If there's nothing to 'chew', then we drink it. However, if there are other things, such as veggies and/or meat that can be chewed, we eat it. Here in the states, we always have our soup served with some kind of bread or crackers, but you don't have to eat that if you don't want to. Soup/stews and breads just go together for us here in the states. I had a friend from the UK here in Chicago who couldn't get used to that.
Julie, Chicago USA
- My Kindergarten kid, being confused, asked me this while doing her homework the other day. I thought for a while and assuming that she is yet to be familiar with other alternatives like 'have', I answered 'eat'. But the next day her teacher refused to accept it. Now if I challenged it, my kid might become more confused, I guess. What should I do now? FYI English is not widely spoken here.
MI Khaled, Dhaka Bangladesh
- It is correct to say that you drink soup.
Suzanne Monaghan, Nottingham, UK
- I agree with all those who are saying that if there is anything solid in the soup then we can say we eat soup but if there nothing solid in the soup then we can say we drink soup.
Frank Adarkwah-Yiadom, Accra, Ghana
- I think if we have chewable things inside so we can say that it's an eatable material but if it's in watery form then definitely it's a drinking material.
Pareesa, Pakistan, Karachi
- You drink beverages; you eat soup.
Peter Maduabum, Randolph, US
