Cereal is a soup. Soup is a food with solids in a broth. The broth here is milk (it CAN be a broth), or water if you want to see the world burn. The solid is the cereal itself.
If you think cereal is not a soup, why? Is it because soup is served hot? There's cold soups. Is it because soups are more "savory" while cereal is generally sweet or bland? There's sweet soups, and not all cereal is Lucky Charms. Is it because cereal is a "breakfast food" and soup is not? You can eat soup for breakfast and cereal for lunch. Just to reinforce this, look at sandwiches. There are "breakfast sandwiches" and "lunch sandwiches," but both can be eaten outside of the intended time. Is it that cereal in milk cannot be soup because it's just cereal? By this logic, other soups cannot be soup because of what they were before being placed in broth. Is it because you can't say that all soup is cereal? Well, this fact is so obvious you can't even use it against the "cereal is a soup" argument. Just because cereal is soup doesn't mean soup is cereal, like how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.
I have heard all the arguments above before, and I believe they are all utterly moronic. When I debate this with someone, they always end up stuck repeating the same words: "It's not a soup because it just isn't!" If you know the slightest bit of anything, you know that this kind of reasoning is only used once you've burned through all your arguments. Whenever I point this out to people, they don't even try to refute it; they just keep insisting I'm wrong without any evidence. The belief that cereal is not and can never be a soup seems to me like one fueled by pure stubbornness. I have yet to be convinced that cereal is not a soup, which, as someone who is above using the "it just is" argument, means that I'm objectively correct.
As a side note, angry nonbelievers have accused me of thinking hot dogs are sandwiches. This is an insult to my stance, as I would never stoop low enough to claim such a dastardly thing. Sandwiches are two pieces of bread with something in between, while hot dogs are one piece of bread. While some people claim that hot dog buns are two pieces of bread that are just connected by some extra bread, that extra strip is exactly what makes it one piece. If you welded together two pieces of metal so they were connected by only one thin strip, it would be one piece of metal, so the same logic should apply to hot dogs. Hot dog buns are one piece of bread. However, hot dogs would become sandwiches if you tore apart the two halves of the bun, such as how sawing the fused metal piece apart would turn it back into two pieces.
Anyways, I have realized that this is supposed to be an "about me." My name is definitely Bella Pepperman. Deeeeeeeeeefinitely not sarcasm. I definitely have dyed green hair and green eyes. Also deeeeeeeeeeeeefinitely not sarcasm. I definitely style my definitely shoulder-length hair into sections, resembling those on a pepp- *cough* pumpkin, and I am definitely not lying. Again, deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeefinitely not sarcasm. When it comes to playing chess, I know what I'm doing minus the "I know what," but I'm hoping to learn.