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[–] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 64 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm intrigued by the border between salad and broth.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Salad-broth supercritical phase

[–] Zorcron@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago

Salad-broth-soup triple point

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If the "broth" in this case is ranch dressing, that's just a midwest salad

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Me too. There should be soup in between, right?! Not all soup needs noodles.

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Salad but >50% water = vegetable broth

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So if I just pour enough water on my salad it becomes a broth? Awesome!

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I guess we could make an assumption that water content includes anything as fluid as water. So a nice vinaigrette drowning a bunch of cucumber chunks would be a salad and not a soup.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

Nalley Fresh in the US puts broth on greens salad.

OK, what greens would you like? Summer mix please

What veggies? green peppers, onion

What protein? Bacon please.

What broth? huh?

What Broth? broth?

Yeah we have vegetable and chicken and.... O.o umm none please...

Are you sure? uhh ok let's try chicken?

It wasn't horrible, but I never went back, even knowing I could just say no.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Think tuna salad, or chicken, or potato.

Keep adding water. The consistency then divides between broth and soup.

Roll it in your hand. If you can form a ball with the leftover material you're likely in soup territory. If there's nothing left over or there's not enough consistency to form a ball it's a broth.

...If you can form a ribbon with the ball it's got some noodle content, I guess.

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I like how precise it is. It seems they tried all the combinations

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They tried something that was 5% noodles, 5% vegetables, and 90% water, and decided that the result was water.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

seems accurate. if i had bucket of water and there was a single pea and a lone noodle floating in it i sure as heck wouldn't call it soup, or even think that its intentional

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it's like if you get a water flask at a restaurant and they have some lemon or something in it. It's still water not soup.

Same idea but vegetables and noodles

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it was 15% pureed vegetables however? Because that's what the bottom axis represents

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

vegetable flavoured water? thinnest of broths? realistically, we call it nothing because what would you even do with something that's 15% vegetable puree and 85% water? my only idea would be to add more vegetables to make it into something, or to use it as i'd use regular water to boil other vegetables or make pasta in it

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Cucumber water is a thing.

Realistically, 15% is too high but if the section for water was any shorter the word wouldn’t fit inside.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

That one should have been "dirty bowl"

[–] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

Only the highest quality ~~shit~~ science posts here

[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 5 points 1 month ago

What? If I understand it all, do I get a PhD in salad?

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think "veggie stew" is missing.

[–] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed. "Chunky water" type vegetable soup is very different from "thick and gloopy" pumpkin soup

[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

when I moved from the US to Ireland the first culture shock was going into a pub at 3pm and finding out they weren't serving really cause it was between lunch and dinner, but he could get me a soup and sandwich.

he proudly returned with white bread with butter on the inside and two slices of cold ham and one slice of cheddar, and a bowl of warm baby food

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 2 points 1 month ago

I had never seen something like that before, and if I had it had been called a sauce, not a soup.

it was like a grey/green pureed glop with the consistency of american apple sauce

I would have cried myself to sleep, but I was in a 12 bed hostel dorm and 11 of the beds were occupied by participants in a UK kid's stag/bachelor party. I had come to Ireland to do a masters degree and the interview was the following day. I did not get a good nights sleep I can confirm.

they took me out like a mascot. if there was a decision to make theyd say "ask the yank, let him decide" so I was the person adjucating major decisions, such as does the groom need to still wear the plastic ball and chain prop his friends had gotten for him, what kind of bottom shelf shot will we do next etc.

I went to my college interview unable to put on a facade of faux "can do" and "organized" guy and could only do my best to be sincere and answer the panel's questions as best as I could. I got on the course, and I have a suspicion that if I had gone to the interviews (plural) pretending I was what I thought they wanted instead of being just my authentic self I wouldnt have been accepted to the course.

anyway I was expecting like noodles or identifiable chunks of stuff. but the soip was warm pureed something. it did compliment the cold ham and cheese slices and the butter 😚👌

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[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Would it not also depend on how they respond to stimuli?

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

No one knows

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~Water = 10% noodles + 10% vegetables + 95% water~~
Edit: Oh, you follow the lines, not the triangle boundary

Water = 5% noodles + 5% vegetables + 90% water

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is the Gibbs triangle, not exclusive to soil :P

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

That particular layout is exclusive to soil, sorry

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[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Salad is way too big a lot of that region should be soup. If you give me a bowl of 50/50 water and veg I’m calling that soup not a salad.

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Mmm… noodle soup

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Water can be up to 15% vegetables and/or noodles!

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Most soups don't have noodles. This doesn't work for me.

Also veggie/water is already soup at like 20%watrr

[–] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

Seems like the diagram on my soup taxonomy paper is not going to make it through peer review 😔

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[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Coke (the soda) is 90% water.

Your soup will still be a soup (or a thin broth, at least) at a far higher percentage of water than you think it will.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Cucumber and lettuce is more water than coke (also Coke is less than 90% water). This chart is all kinds of fucked up. 80% noodles, 20% vegetables and 50% water is noodles?

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Soup always was and always will be the best form of food.

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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] The_other_fish@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Noodle Soup, who is she?!

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This diagram has not helped me determine if my slow cooker creation is a pot roast or a stew.

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[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

I like my soup really hot and really wet.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, my favorite drink.

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