Is Coffee Soup?

Question

Soup is defined as: "a liquid dish, typically savoury and made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables etc. in stock or water" Coffe is liquid, and made by boiling the dried seed of the coffee plant in water. The seeds are not submerged, the water is strained through them, but I'd say this process is...

Answer 1

I'm not sure where the technical line is, between soup and coffee, but to me personally, if you put caffeine in soup, I wouldn't call it soup anymore.
With coffee, that's the way that I think about it, and the way that I use it. It is liquid with caffeine, it is a wake-up drug that gets me through work. If you're lucky, it is also a nice drink. Probably not the most cultured way to think about it.

Answer 2

The most of soups is greasy contrary to coffee. Even the vegetable soup is usually prepared in greasy broth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup

Answer 3

It would be more of a bean broth.

Answer 4

If you really think there is a similarity between coffee and soup then the frightening thing is that you even go to school!

Please come back and say you're joking.

Answer 5

Coffee water is no where near 212° (the boiling point), so there is no chance coffee can be considered soup. Nice try, though. It's just a drink.

Answer 6

No, it isn't

Answer 7

Are you and your classmates in middle school ? That would explain this infantile question ?

Answer 8

No, it is a hot drink, so for that matter are tea and drinking chocolate.

Answer 9

You could argue coffee is a broth, not a soup. It's all semantics

Answer 10

Coffee is the elixir of the gods. I don't care what you call it!!!

Just saying …