- If I need a fork, it is not soup.
- See, I can't do this with soup.
- This is soup. Now that's a sandwich.
- Ooh!
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- (FBE) How would you define the term soup?
- Liquid food. - Oh, it's one of those.
- Soupy? - That's pretty good, yeah.
Something along those lines. (Eric laughs)
- Water or cream based, sometimes served with like noodles,
and meat and vegetables. - Uh huh, vegetables.
- (FBE) Well according to Merriam-Webster,
the official definition of soup is a liquid food,
especially with a meat, fish, or vegetable stock as a base,
and often containing pieces of solid food.
- See, that feels very non-committal though,
'cause they're like often, usually.
- (FBE) Well today we're gonna put this definition to the test.
We're gonna bring out different liquid dishes for you to try.
It'll be up to you to decide is it a soup?
(both laugh)
- Okay. - I'm scared for what this could be.
I feel like this is very existential,
and I feel like I'm just gonna have like a meltdown
while trying to decide if something's a soup or not.
- They're gonna put cereal in front of us
and be like is this a soup?
- I think cereal is a soup.
- You think cereal is a soup?
- 'Cause it's like, your liquids, and then your solids.
- (FBE) For each of the dishes that we'll bring out today,
we polled our FBE SuperFam to get a definitive answer
do most people consider it to be a soup?
- Okay, SuperFam.
- (FBE) After you've made your decision,
we'll reveal their survey results.
Whichever person agrees with our SuperFam most,
or should I say soup-erFam.
- (sighs) Oh.
- I love it. - (FBE) Will be crowned the winner.
- I actually love it.
- (FBE) Are you guys ready for your first dish?
- (laughs) Yeah. - Let's just do it.
- (FBE) Bring it on out!
So first up, we have a classic noodle dish, ramen!
- (Eric) Oh, it's got broth, it's got meat.
- It's got solids and liquid.
- Mmm. - Mmm, I love ramen!
- It's not soup, it's ramen, and I need a fork.
See, if I need a fork, it is not soup.
It's not soup. - I love ramen,
but I agree, how can I eat this with a spoon?
- Ramen is most definitely soup. - Okay.
So, we can try it with no consequences?
- (FBE) No consequences. (Ethan laughs)
No punishments, just...
- I like that's how, that's what's her first question.
- I really am like, I don't know how I feel about it,
being a soup or not. - I already know.
I already know, it's just not a soup.
- I mean, technically... - No.
- What Merriam-Webster says...
- You cannot eat noodles with a spoon, that's crazy talk.
- What about chicken noodle soup?
- That's different. (laughs)
- (FBE) So final decision, is ramen a soup?
- Yes.
- (FBE) Yes, we both think that ramen is a soup.
Are you ready to hear what the SuperFam said?
- I swear to God, if they say it's not a soup,
I'm gonna be very confused. - It's very interesting.
- (FBE) So according to the SuperFam at our time of polling,
only 70% of people consider a bowl of ramen to be a soup.
- That's the majority. - (FBE) But that is more than half.
- That's the vast majority. - Oh, okay!
- What else would it be, like... - I don't know!
Some people just eat the ramen noodles,
the noodles itself, so then... - Not the broth?
- Not the broth, I mean, they're boring, but...
- Boring. (laughs) - Sorry!
- (laughs) Whoa! She's calling them out!
30%, you're boring!
- I do wanna take this home. Thank you. (laughs)
Please... - This soup, she wants to take home.
- Cover this for me, I would like to take this home.
- She wants to take this soup home.
- I would like to take this ramen home with a fork. (laughs)
- The category of soup.
- (FBE) So next up, we have a food we debated
in a previous episode. - Oh baby!
- (FBE) We decided chili in a bread bowl
wasn't a sandwich, but is it a soup?
- This is soup. Now that's a sandwich.
- Ooh!
- I never really thought about it like that.
But when you go to Soup Plantation,
the chili is in the soup section.
- The only time I've really eaten chilli
is on top of my nachos, like cheese, nachoes.
- So you only have it as a dip? - Mm-hmm.
- I literally come here not eating, like I don't eat coming here,
because I'm like (whispers) I might get food.
- It's a little thicker, I sort of think of more liquid
when I think of a soup, but there's still enough liquid
in here to call it a soup in my eyes.
- If anything, I think this is just like a really efficient soup.
- Technically, is it a liquidy substance
with chunks of food in it?
- That's the question here today.
- I know I'm trying it, like, yeah, this is,
like trying it's gonna help me realize it's a soup.
(both laugh)
This is the existential crisis I was talking about.
This is, like a lot of questions are going on in my head right now.
- (FBE) So is chili in a bread bowl a soup?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Yes, it's a soup! - No! (laughs)
- (FBE) According to our SuperFam poll at the time of filming,
only 46% percent of people considered chili in a bread bowl
to be a soup, so you're both wrong.
(buzzer rings) - What?
- No soup for you?
(bell rings) - Oh my gosh, yes!
- Thank you, there are some sane people in this world!
- I guess I eat it as a soup. I'm just like the weird minority.
- No, you're part of that 46%. - Mm-hmm.
- (FBE) Next up, we have a deliciously hearty dish, beef stew!
- Oh, see this, I was gonna say, see yeah, this is stew.
I'd be more willing to consider stew soup than I would chili.
- Is stew not synonymous with soup? I feel like those are the same word.
You're the chef, what's the difference?
- I don't even know. (laughs)
- I love stew. - I like stew.
- Mmm. - Mmm.
- This is a soup for me. - Mm-hmm.
- I usually love to have rice. - Rice.
- Or you know, something. - Rice, yeah.
- Rice, yeah rice in this, or like bread.
- Rice is so good.
- I think soup is just such a general term,
and then there's categories of soup in it.
- This reminds me of dog food,
like Alpo. - Well don't ruin it.
There was a moment where I'm like ugh.
- I feel like we can both agree this looks like a soup,
but maybe the cooking technique is maybe what differs it.
- I feel like everything in a stew is like marinated longer
so all the stuff is softer.
- You got a... - You gonna dab me?
- I gotcha. - Thanks man.
- Ready? - (FBE) Yep, go.
- Why am I stressed about this?
- (FBE) Yes, both saying yes.
One no and one yes. Alright, split decision!
(Krischelle laughs) - Yes!
- (FBE) Yes! - Yes!
- Yay! - (FBE) That agrees with our SuperFam!
(bell rings) - Wow.
- Yay! - (FBE) So yes, at the time of filming
72% of people considered beef stew to be a soup.
- That's a good amount, yeah. I would agree with that.
I could see room for doubt though.
- I couldn't put it past myself to not call it soup,
because even though it's stew, it still falls in line
with what a soup would be. - Okay.
I don't feel like I'm educated enough on stews
to like know... (Ethan laughs)
And 72% is a lot, so I'm highly mistaken.
- (FBE) Next we have a cream-based noodle dish, mac and cheese!
- That's some mac, this is... - Shh, let her, I agree.
Let her. (Faith laughs)
- No, this isn't a soup!
- I've always though mac and cheese was more like a pasta dish.
- Mm-hmm. - (Jeannie) I don't think it's soup.
- (Krischelle) It's labeled a pasta at restaurants.
- This is delicious.
- I don't care if this is soup or not honestly at this point.
- Yo, you should've put this in the bread bowl.
- Oh my... - That's bomb!
- (FBE) So Danny, you thought that ramen was a soup.
How is this noodle dish different than that?
- Come on!
- Because the broth before is actually watery
and more liquid and broth.
This is way more dairy and thick cheese.
- This has no broth, nothing, no liquid substance
that it really sits in. It's just melted cheese.
- Like, you can go like this and it's not gonna go anywhere.
If you did that with the ramen, it'd be all over.
- Yeah, see, I can't do this with soup.
- (FBE) Mac and cheese, would you ever consider it a soup?
- I would say no.
- I don't see any aspect of it that's soupy.
- (FBE) No! - Nope.
- (FBE) No. - Alright, SuperFam.
- No.
- (FBE) You're correct. - No, okay.
(both laugh)
- (FBE) So according to our SuperFam at the time of filming,
5% of people still considered this to be a soup.
- They crazy. - No, they just wanna be different.
(bell rings) - They just hit the wrong button.
That's all. (Eric laughs)
They read it, they're all, yes, and they hit no on accident.
- Yes, it is not a soup. - Yeah.
- (FBE) Next up, we have another maybe soup, melted ice cream!
- (Ethan) Ah, see I almost wanna say kinda.
- I like it in solid form.
- Yeah, I like it in solid form too.
- Why are we kinda hesitant to taste this?
- Right, it feels like... - It doesn't feel right.
- What the... - That is delicious.
I don't know what this is, but you should sell it.
- What is this? Is that cherries?
Yes!
Mmm-mmm! Yes!
- And it goes in the airplane,
choo choo train! - Nice delicacy, mm-hmm!
- The fact that it's liquidy is kinda soup-ish.
I know what I think, but what does the SuperFam think?
- (FBE) Is melted ice cream a soup?
- Yes. - [Bleep] it.
- It's cheap dessert soup. - (laughs) I hope it's not.
- I don't think it's a soup. - I don't think it's a soup.
- Soup is made to be soup, this was just ice cream left out.
- (FBE) You're correct, our SuperFam did not think this was a soup either.
- And yet, how many? - (FBE) 21% of people
still said this dish qualifies. - That's crazy!
- I just keep going back to the definition
is what I keep thinking in my head, and I'd love to hear the argument
as to how this isn't a soup by definition.
It's milk, that comes from a cow, and beef stock and milk
both come from cows and it's pretty much the same thing,
so this is pretty much like you know, soup.
- It's a cow soup.
- (FBE) So next we have another dish that traditionally served cold,
gazpacho!
- Just didn't want something cold, but I just had the sugar, sugar meal.
- This is a soup. It's a cold soup.
- Mmm, mmm, whoa! - I don't love it.
- Tangy, tangy! - I don't like it.
- It tastes like dip.
Like I would dip a tortilla chip in this.
I don't know if I could just eat this plain.
- Then you know... - Bring back out that bread bowl.
- It's pretty good actually. - Mmm.
What would gazpacho be if it isn't soup?
- It's just, I think it's like by definition just cold soup.
Literally so. - Yeah.
- I'd love to hear what people say about this.
- (FBE) Is gazpacho a soup?
Both saying yes! Okay.
- Yes, soup. - Yes, I think it is!
- Definitely.
- (FBE) That's correct! (bell rings)
- Let's go! - Woo!
- (FBE) So yes, gazpacho is a soup. Troy, as you mentioned,
the word soup is in the definition of gazpacho.
However, only 55% of our SuperFam considered it to be a soup.
- I just think most people don't know what a gazpacho is.
- It feels and tastes like what would be a soup.
- Oh, okay.
- I'm confused by those who said it wasn't a soup.
- (FBE) So last, but not least, we have the dish
that sparked this whole debate to begin with,
a bowl of cereal with milk.
- Alright. - Ooh!
- Let's go! - Hell yeah, baby!
- (Troy) I can see how this sparked the debate.
This is what I was thinking of
the whole time when we were doing this.
- I love Fruity Pebbles!
- Wait, are you gonna change your mind because in the beginning...
- Yes I am! - You said cereal was soup,
and now, what are you gonna say?
Are you gonna change your mind, huh? - Just wait!
- It's [bleep] cereal. - Come on. (laughs)
It's cereal. - This is just grain and milk.
- (sighs) That's it. - But it is delicious and very pretty.
- Ah yeah, and addicting, which is why I'm not gonna taste it.
- This is the one that I knew
was gonna be the hardest one to answer,
because I genuinely do not know,
because by definition, it could be considered a soup.
But it, in itself, is not a soup.
- (FBE) Is cereal a soup?
- I'm gonna say no. - I think they said yes.
- (FBE) Both saying no that it's not a soup.
- I just, I'm gonna say no.
- (FBE) Well according to the SuperFam poll
at the time of filming,
10% of people consider cereal to be a soup,
so you're correct. (bell rings)
- Whoa, yes! - Let's go!
Flawless!
- They have, they have... - Oh!
- That the SuperFam are down to Earth people that get it.
(bell rings) - We are tied!
We are tied, we are tied! - Tied!
- Are you telling me 90% of the SuperFam
has never gone to a restaurant
and been like "nah, no salad, I'll just take a soup."
"Could you put Fruity Pebbles in there?"
- Yeah, what's your soup of the day?
Cocoa Puffs, Life.
- (FBE) You guys tied!
- We tied! - I know we tied, that's crazy.
- (FBE) Troy, you won it!
- Mmm. - Let's go.
- Pulled ahead, man. That's not fair, he's a chef!
- Yeah, I know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I kinda forgot this was a competition.
- You can't eat noodles. You have to have a fork.
- Chicken noodle soup.
- I stand by my answers 100%!
- There were a couple curve balls in there,
where I could have gone either way.
- It was soup-er hard to do this, but...
- (laughs) Jesus Christ. - But like, I just went
with what I felt was soup, it was soup to me,
and so I feel good about it either way.
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