But it's soup, you can pour instead of scraping. In fact a corner is a better spout for pouring, if we're being purely practical.
But can you imagine if some fancy-shmancy restaurant served their extremely delicious soup in a square bowl? Teasing you with the impossibility of getting the last drop? I'd tip it out the corner but I'm crass.
If they did so, it would be to mess with your mind and subvert your expectations.
That only applies if you're transfering the soup out of the container to eat. If you plan on eating straight from the tupperware, round is better for soup
I was wondering why they make them in cans rather than cubes since it’s space lost and found this:
The cylindrical shapes of cans are a major benefit when manufacturing products. The cylindrical shape is the perfect cross-section of using the least amount of material but being able to fit the most product into shipment boxes and on store shelves. A spherical shape is inefficient for packaging, and a cubical shape is inefficient in terms of material use. The cylindrical shape is just right by using a rounded top (like a sphere) and elongated sides (like a cube). This cylindrical shape is also critical for withstanding pressure. This shape can withstand up to 90 lbs of pressure, making them a durable product for day-to-day life.
Nah, its because you need to scrape down the sides to get all the soup at the end and if its a square container you can't do that in the corners. Round containers are just easier to scrape down.
I currently have a square glass container with chowder in it on the top shelf of my fridge. Does that count as soup, stew, or is chowder its own category?
For those that need an explanation: round containers don't have corners, but square ones do. Soup is a liquid, which means it will occupy the corner. The corners are very difficult to get liquid out of; be it with a spoon or otherwise for eating, cleaning, serving, etc.. Putting soup in round containers keeps that problem from occurring.
Counter argument: corners make it easier to pour accurately. If it's a thick soup, you're going to get strips of soup stuck to the container between the spoon strokes either way and a corner can act as a soup staging area that makes it easier to get the soup out instead of just pushing it around. And a spatula would make quick work out of either shape.
Though note that I'm picturing a rectangular container with rounded edges.
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The better version of this joke
I feel like the post is better, seems like a matter of opinion
Or perhaps because it's easier to scrape down the sides of a rounded container with a spoon?...
Get out of here with your logic; this is a shitpost
A swirly circle shitpost or a straight log shitpost?
But it's soup, you can pour instead of scraping. In fact a corner is a better spout for pouring, if we're being purely practical.
But can you imagine if some fancy-shmancy restaurant served their extremely delicious soup in a square bowl? Teasing you with the impossibility of getting the last drop? I'd tip it out the corner but I'm crass.
If they did so, it would be to mess with your mind and subvert your expectations.
Because soup is round.
If you don't need to scrape anything out of the bowl on your last couple bites then you're eating broth, not soup (consommé is a broth, fight me)
Anyone that thinks that a soup is something you can eat in "bites" is either a lard abuser or lives in some -40°C frozen wasteland
Fight on.
You're acting like you've never accidentally reduced a soup far enough that you almost burned it.
There are dozens of cases, every year!
Fun fact: in Italian it's called "brodo chiarificato" which can be roughly translated to "diluted broth"
That only applies if you're transfering the soup out of the container to eat. If you plan on eating straight from the tupperware, round is better for soup
Unless you pour it in your mouth...
And to use a ladle
I disagree hard. The shape of soup is temperature based.
I am upset by how entirely correct you are about this.
I call them SoopCube.
Tho right now I am storing fruits for smoothies in it... Still, SoopCube.
This is that one trick you don't want people to know.
I love how true this is. I made stock and froze it in a Ziploc bag using my bread tins as a brick form. Works perfectly
This year’s award winning film: The Shape of Soup.
Spoiler: it's fish soup
I would absolutely watch this.
Soup cans > soup cubes
I was wondering why they make them in cans rather than cubes since it’s space lost and found this:
https://www.tastingtable.com/1369064/scientific-reason-canned-goods-always-cylindrical/
At this point I'm surprised they haven't switched to square cans so you pay more but get less soup
Bouba shaped soup
Kiki
Assuming no gravity, soup is a sphere.
It's very hard to get all of the soup out of a square container, because a spoon won't reach into the edges properly
well rounded logic
I completely understand, I see nothing wrong with this statement.
Campbell's BuzzBallz
Because you can't explain. Because your brain is in a round container and it has personal biases in shape preferences.
I wish bouillon cubes were spheres
Bouillon balls
I agree. A liquid should have the freedom to expand in all directions equally.
Everything else is just needless abusive or cruel behavior towards soup.
But a liquid should also have the challenging experience of filling even the smallest nooks and crannies.
You should always ask your soup if it currently wants comfort (round container) or adventure (square container).
yeah, ok. tend to agree. although i will allow a Squircle
Of course not - no explanation is necessary!!
I prefer square because it's easier to fold the soup.
"How to fold soup" Steve Martin, Cruel Shoes.
Nah, its because you need to scrape down the sides to get all the soup at the end and if its a square container you can't do that in the corners. Round containers are just easier to scrape down.
Because of bowls, I get it
Here some soups are sold in Tertrapak cartons which I suspect would break the average American.
No, we definitely have soup in Tetra Brik-style cartons. It's quite common.
Too dumb to meme
I don't even possess a round container. They're strictly less practical than rectangular ones
Never trust soup from a tetrapack
Soup is round Soup cans are Soup cubes We must resolve this tension Soup cobes
Hey. We have a real word for soup cubes. It's cylinder.
In zero G it is indeed a sphere
Ha ha ha. It's true, soup is round, was there ever any doubt?
I currently have a square glass container with chowder in it on the top shelf of my fridge. Does that count as soup, stew, or is chowder its own category?
For those that need an explanation: round containers don't have corners, but square ones do. Soup is a liquid, which means it will occupy the corner. The corners are very difficult to get liquid out of; be it with a spoon or otherwise for eating, cleaning, serving, etc.. Putting soup in round containers keeps that problem from occurring.
And very difficult to scrub the grease off of
Counter argument: corners make it easier to pour accurately. If it's a thick soup, you're going to get strips of soup stuck to the container between the spoon strokes either way and a corner can act as a soup staging area that makes it easier to get the soup out instead of just pushing it around. And a spatula would make quick work out of either shape.
Though note that I'm picturing a rectangular container with rounded edges.