Is cereal a soup?

“explain the gazpacho then? Because i feel that it is universally considered a soup, yet it is served cold. Milk is not water, it can be considered it's own flavourful broth( even though its mostly flavourless). Soup is not defined by heat or cooking, it is simply liquid food.”

“no cereal is not a soup my main argument is that broth is the main part for soup while milk which is the liquid part of cereal is only secondary.”

“Cereal is a soup cause it is eaten like any other normal soup first the cereal and drink the milk”

“Wrong. Cereal isn't soup because soup requires cooking—heat transforming ingredients into a unified dish. Cereal is just dry grain dunked in cold milk. You're confusing immersion with cooking. Why would adding milk make cereal soup when boiling water doesn't make pasta soup?”

“Wrong frame. You're comparing *liquids* when you should compare *function*. Both broth and milk dissolve solids into a drinkable mixture. Why does the ingredient source matter more than what the dish *does*? What makes broth fundamentally different in purpose?”