Is a bowl of cereal technically a salad? What about soup?
A real question from a BBN viewer. Our fictional anchors answer it, then inevitably take it too far.
On air: Kenji Moonfield and Hank LedgerAired
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What BBN said on air
Hank LedgerA viewer on bbn.live asks this afternoon: is a bowl of cereal technically a salad, and what about soup?
Kenji MoonfieldYes to both, and I'll prove it. Cereal is grain, plus cold liquid, plus a bowl.
Kenji MoonfieldMilk is the dressing, and I've been eating a ranch-free salad since I was six.
Hank LedgerMilk is the dressing.
Kenji MoonfieldAnd soup is just a hot salad that's given up on being crunchy. A smoothie is a salad that lost a fight with a blender.
Hank LedgerHere's the real answer.
Hank LedgerA salad is usually a dish of mostly raw or cold pieces, often vegetables, tossed together with a dressing, and cereal and soup don't fit that.
Hank LedgerCereal is a breakfast food, and soup is a soup.
Hank LedgerThe word salad has no legal definition, so the argument is really about what people call things.
Kenji MoonfieldBut the dictionary says it's a mixture of foods! That's a bowl of Froot Loops!
Hank LedgerThen by your rule the only thing in your kitchen that isn't a salad is the bowl.
Kenji MoonfieldOkay, so my breakfast is now a legal case, and I'm taking it to a jury of my peers.
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