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[-] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 63 points 3 days ago

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

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 33 points 3 days ago

Salad-broth supercritical phase

[-] Zorcron@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

Salad-broth-soup triple point

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 points 3 days ago

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

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

Salad but >50% water = vegetable broth

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days 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.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

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

[-] ghen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days 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.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Lettuces are mostly water

[-] realitista@lemmus.org 47 points 3 days ago

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

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

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

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

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 3 days 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 3 days ago

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

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 3 days 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 3 days ago

That one should have been "dirty bowl"

[-] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 days ago

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[-] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago
[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

No one knows

[-] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 22 points 3 days ago
[-] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 5 points 3 days ago

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

[-] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago
[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 days ago

I think "veggie stew" is missing.

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

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

[-] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 3 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'd be pretty upset if my faucet spat out 10% noodles

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Really? But that's a free unlimited pasta hack?

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[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago

That particular layout is exclusive to soil, sorry

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[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

Mmm… noodle soup

[-] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

I like my soup really hot and really wet.

[-] Gladaed@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 3 days 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 3 days ago

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 3 days 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?

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] The_other_fish@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Noodle Soup, who is she?!

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