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Yesterday, my child randomly asked the funniest thing! He's 14, and taller than me... and this question cracked me up! I don't know why he asked then - it wasn't breakfast time, it wasn't cold out, and he wasn't eating...

He asked: "Is cereal soup?"

I cracked up. I didn't really know how to answer. I told him that, so we proceeded to google.
We found:

Definition of soup
1: a liquid food especially with a meat, fish, or vegetable stock as a base and often containing pieces of solid food
2: something (such as a heavy fog or nitroglycerine) having or suggesting the consistency or nutrient qualities of soup
3: an unfortunate predicament
that stunt landed her in the soup

By the first on the list, it is not since there is no meat, fish or vegetable stock. But then, when you look around more on google, it's a hot debate! :giggle

So, couple things here..... do you consider cereal soup? and have your kids ever asked a question that you thought was the funniest thing?


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Ha ha.. that is so funny and your son is so smart & interesting @jk703 Jenn!

I would say Cereal is "Soup" only if being eaten in milk (or water.. some do eat with water I would think)

Now that we have the definition to "soup" I would have to say yes it is a soup since it also has solid particles being the cereal.. wow I never thought of it that way.. LOL

I eat my cereal dry with a yogurt on the side so mine wouldn't be soup but cereal with a side of yogurt LOL!!

He definitly made me think!
 
Well, I would say cereal has some resemblance to soup being that it is often eaten in combination with milk. But, cereal can be eaten dry. Would definitely not call it soup then. And some may use a different liquid (my husband uses orange juice - seriously).

Instead of looking up "soup" look up "cereal." I would say cereal is its own thing; not a soup, not a salad, its own food category but with properties that are similar to soup.

No kids here so, no, they have not asked the funniest thing :rofl

ce·re·al
/ˈsirēəl/

noun
  1. a grain used for food, such as wheat, oats, or corn.
    • a grass producing a cereal grain, grown as an agricultural crop.
      "low yields for cereal crops"
    • a breakfast food made from roasted grain, typically eaten with milk.
      "a bowl of cereal"

 
cfile said:
Ha ha.. that is so funny and your son is so smart & interesting @jk703 Jenn!

I would say Cereal is "Soup" only if being eaten in milk (or water.. some do eat with water I would think)

Now that we have the definition to "soup" I would have to say yes it is a soup since it also has solid particles being the cereal.. wow I never thought of it that way.. LOL

I eat my cereal dry with a yogurt on the side so mine wouldn't be soup but cereal with a side of yogurt LOL!!

He definitly made me think!
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Yeah, I don't eat it often at all.... and when I do it's a little handful when my kids are eating their cereal (with milk), lol!
 
ArmyGrl said:
Well, I would say cereal has some resemblance to soup being that it is often eaten in combination with milk. But, cereal can be eaten dry. Would definitely not call it soup then. And some may use a different liquid (my husband uses orange juice - seriously).

Instead of looking up "soup" look up "cereal." I would say cereal is its own thing; not a soup, not a salad, its own food category but with properties that are similar to soup.

No kids here so, no, they have not asked the funniest thing :rofl

ce·re·al
/ˈsirēəl/

noun
  1. a grain used for food, such as wheat, oats, or corn.
    • a grass producing a cereal grain, grown as an agricultural crop.
      "low yields for cereal crops"
    • a breakfast food made from roasted grain, typically eaten with milk.
      "a bowl of cereal"
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Haha! Orange Juice? What kind of cereal? I can't imagine Lucky Charms, Golden Grahams, or even Grape Nuts!
(I just had to google where Grape Nuts got it's name too!)
 
jk703 said:
Haha! Orange Juice? What kind of cereal? I can't imagine Lucky Charms, Golden Grahams, or even Grape Nuts!
(I just had to google where Grape Nuts got it's name too!)
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Actually - all the above. I do not like Grape Nuts. But the hubby buys them and yes, eats with orange juice. Icky flavor combos in my opinion.
 
Came to think of this: I knew my son was a genius when he used the words he knew to express something he didn't know the words for. I'm not sure how old he was, 18 month-ish? For some reason he had put his sandwich on the sofa, and my husband didn't see it, and sat on it. Then my son said: "Daddy dropped pants on sandwich"

Makes perfect sense, he used his vocabulary, and conveyed his message. So cute!
 
tanteva said:
Came to think of this: I knew my son was a genius when he used the words he knew to express something he didn't know the words for. I'm not sure how old he was, 18 month-ish? For some reason he had put his sandwich on the sofa, and my husband didn't see it, and sat on it. Then my son said: "Daddy dropped pants on sandwich"

Makes perfect sense, he used his vocabulary, and conveyed his message. So cute!
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Awww, when they are little it's always fun to see what they come up with!
 
I have a layout from this last MOC about having to explain to my 8-year-old that someone getting "a wild hair" is not the same as a hare or a rabbit. :giggle

More recently, we went to our local Pride festival, and my oldest was explaining what it was by saying that it was for girls who like girls and boys who like boys. My 8-year-old shrugged and said, "Well, I'm a boy who likes boys and who likes girls. What's the big deal?" There was further discussion of the difference between liking someone and LIKE-liking someone. :giggle
 
I can't tell you what the funniest thing my youngest grandson, Asher, said - I'd break the board. He was only about 3 and we didn't know WHERE he heard it,but it will go down in infamy as THE funniest thing I've ever heard a kid say. I'll give you a hint - he was VERY angry to be going to day care and did NOT want to go!!! The teacher: "What's your name, honey?" His answer "Asher Brown ____ _____"
 
That's a legit question. But I would say no.

A few weeks ago my 9-year-old, who is language delayed (profoundly deaf, adopted, cochlear implants, etc., and still has a way to catch up on his English - although he's doing amazing!) pointed to a straw and wanted me to hand it to him. I told him he had to ask me for it (always trying to get him to use his words). You could tell he couldn't think of the word "straw" so he said, "Can you pass me the pipe?" Haha!

I thought that was pretty clever. It sort of is a pipe. I also thought it was a little weird that he knew the word for pipe but not for straw. Haha.
 
I have so many adorable kid comments in my scrapbooks! That's one of the things I miss most from when they were little. No more one liners, now even their funny comments are part of a long conversation that doesn't seem funny unless you manage to record the entire thing.

Part of our family lore is when my husband told my then-5 year old that he wasn't doing something efficiently. My son replied, "I don't know what efficiently is, but I know what a fish is!"

Scrapping with Liz said:
A few weeks ago my 9-year-old, who is language delayed (profoundly deaf, adopted, cochlear implants, etc., and still has a way to catch up on his English - although he's doing amazing!) pointed to a straw and wanted me to hand it to him. I told him he had to ask me for it (always trying to get him to use his words). You could tell he couldn't think of the word "straw" so he said, "Can you pass me the pipe?" Haha!

I thought that was pretty clever. It sort of is a pipe. I also thought it was a little weird that he knew the word for pipe but not for straw. Haha.
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I could be way off and this may have just been a normal "can't think of the word" situation. But I can't help noticing that the lip movements for "pipe" are much more distinctive than the ones for the word "straw." Before he had his implants, would that have made a difference in which words he learned?
 
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That's pretty funny! I never would have considered cereal a soup, but it's liquid with solids floating in it... so I could see the argument for it either way. :giggle
 
That fun! I guess it is soup with milk, but I have 2 that eat it dry- so not then... lol

My kids STILL say "back fast forward" for rewind. I actually had to explain how rewind meant to rewind the actual tape of a video & that rabbit hole of a topic was just crazy & made me feel so old! I'm not sure when they started saying back fast forward but it's one of those things that will probably always be an inside joke in our family! ;)
 
My first instinct was no, cereal is not a soup, only because it's cold. But there are definitely cold soups. I don't know. Hmmm, maybe I'm saying no anyway. It just doesn't seem like soup. It's just cereal.

Olivia used to call the back yard - the back yard - BUT the front yard was The Back Front Yard. LOL
 
rach3975 said:
I could be way off and this may have just been a normal "can't think of the word" situation. But I can't help noticing that the lip movements for "pipe" are much more distinctive than the ones for the word "straw." Before he had his implants, would that have made a difference in which words he learned?
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Could be and that it's an easier word to say. I'm thinking it's probably because we don't use straws very often...but then again we don't use pipes very often. LOL!
 
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