If chili is a soup, then it was made wrong.
Do you put soup on your hotdog? Or your burger? Q.E.D.
I was in a dumb argument about this the other day and thought I'd submit it to the board where no subject is to bizarre.
Is chili a soup?
Its usually listed under the "Soup and Salad" portion of the menu, but its typically with the beans, not the soups, in grocery stores and unlike soup, which is traditionally an appetizer, chili often constitutes its own meal. On the other hand, the same can be said of beef stew and a seafood chowder. Now I'm rambling. Thoughts?
If chili is a soup, then it was made wrong.
Do you put soup on your hotdog? Or your burger? Q.E.D.
It is liquid food--very good liquid food--I, therefore, believe it is a soup. We are having white bean chicken chili tonight--my wife is not only lovely, but one heck of a soup maker. I will review the beer I am having with the soup on the beer thread.
Chili is stew, not soup. However, most restaurants do not have enough offerings to devote an entire section of the menu to stews (alas). So the term "soup" on a menu actually means "hot food that comes in a bowl but is not an entree".
Cheers,
Mr. Language Person
Kind of depends on the chili, IMHO.
It's chili. Do you refer to it as chili soup? Do you refer to it as chili stew? Do you refer to it as chili chowder? No, no, no. Chili.
Chili is most definitely NOT a soup. Soups use stock/broth/water as a base, to which other little yummy bits are added. The base for chili is meat and that meat is simmered in a liquid (some like more, some like less). That my friends is the definition of a stew.
chili is not a soup.
thats like saying Sarah Palin is qualified to be president just because she wears presidential cloths (as in comparison to chili being served in a bowl)
chili is definitley a stew