We can safely say that soup goes back at a good minimum of 25,000 years. In fact, it’s possible that the origins of hot soup go back to when Neanderthals walked the Earth with us. To preface, soup can by definition be served cold, so at face value it might not seem very impressive that soup goes so far back, considering that throwing some plants you dug up into water isn’t hard and qualifies as “soup.”īut no, here we mean boiled soup. As such, the original Latin “suppa” also refers to what we now call “sop.” It’s a bit of a tangle.įor the origin of the actual dish, the earliest consumption of soup goes very far back. Soup then made its way over to Latin as “suppa,” then to French as “soupe.” For those wondering, the same roots also spawned the word “sop,” which is the piece of bread you might soak into your soups and stews for consumption.
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If we trace the etymology of the word “soup” all the way back, to very early language, we end up with Germanic roots. Which is 100% meaningless and now we’re going to have to go deeper.įurther reading: What Is a Sandwich? Soup Origins It also tells us that soup is anything that has qualities or the consistency of soup. In that liquid, you’re going to put some things in there, and then you eat it with a spoon.Įxcept then that would technically make milk and cereal a soup and that’s probably an uncomfortable idea to a lot of people.īut Merriam-Webster tells us soups are liquid foods with some kind of stock (vegetables, meat, etc.) often containing solid food. There’s a base, and it’s going to be liquid. So before we look into technical definitions, let’s break soup down into its component parts.
Everyone has had the “are hot dogs sandwiches” argument at some point because on some level, the definition is a little bit nebulous. Ergo, everyone probably has a slightly different definition for what soup is. But when you really sit down and think about it, it’s not unlike a sandwich. We all can tell each other if we’re eating or looking at soup. (Last Updated On: April 4, 2019) What Is Soup?
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