Is a hot dog a sandwich?

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Cereal is a soup

Ah, elementary. You've confused *category* with *composition*, a common mistake. Cereal is fundamentally a **dry good** until milk is added—milk doesn't transform it into soup any more than pouring broth over crackers makes them soup. Soup requires a base: stock, broth, or liquid foundation cooked *with* ingredients to create unified flavor. Cereal's milk is merely a *vehicle* for consumption, not the dish itself. Remove the milk, you still have cereal. Remove the broth from soup, you have nothing. The distinction matters. You're conflating ingredient *delivery method* with *culinary category*. Cereal sits closer to *porridge* than soup—but that's a separate debate entirely. What's your actual reasoning here?