Food Theory: Wait... Coffee is a SOUP?!

I don't normally comment, but I needed you all to know my disappointment in this episode. -Head Editor Dan

Episode Idea: How much cheese would Cheetos need to contain to literally be dangerously cheesy

I'd actually contend that coffee is not a fruit-seed soup, but rather a fruit-seed stock, because you filter out the thing that you boiled to make the drink. In soups, you still have solids left behind in the finished product, even if they're pureed, but in coffee, you filter the solids out.

1:07 "DON'T SAY THAT!" already I can tell this is going to be a great episode.

The brain storm call at the start is so good. I love seeing the ideation process.

8:30 "Don't believe everything you see on TikTok, friends." Don't worry matPat, I don't even believe literally anything I see on TikTok.

Cooler: "Let me tell you a secret, coffee is just bean soup"

Dan's screams of frustration are the best parts of the episode. Lmao.

"Amy's chugging her bean broth right now" "DONT SAY THAT!" best moment ever

I can't believe you totally missed that coffee is a POTION. It's brewed, it has magical properties, and if you found a vial of it in a dungeon you'd have to make a very difficult decision about whether to drink it or not.

MatPat you have enough resources and shows to fill an entire cable network. It's amazing how much your channel has grown over the years.

I cannot believe I just watched a video about whether or not coffee was a soup or not. AND IT MADE SENSE!!

I like how Mat doesn't bother adding that this explanation automatically proves that Tea is also soup.

I love how when MattPatt heard that tiktokers were making mash-potatoes out of chips, he isn’t even surprised, he just laughs & says “Of course they are”

Dan took this personally. Even in the call he was ready throw hands through the screen 😂

Watching Dan get so upset at mat calling Amy's coffee "bean broth" makes me laugh every single time

As a barista, I'm more partial to the idea that it's a potion. It''s brewed and is magical because it grants the drinker the strength to go about their day

You forgot to mention the classification of an "infusion", or what's commonly called a "tea" Soup is very specifically eaten, whereas the remaining broth or infusion is then drank or discarded. But that's the thing. The liquid component is often an infusion, either of meat or bone, or of an herbal source. But just as coffee isn't a puree, so to is it not a soup.

I'm more often than not impressed by the sheer quality of the science in any given episode. It's very pleasing and gets my brain started in the best way possible. The "simple" jokes you usually make are excellent and always fit, never taking away from your point you're trying to make... This episode made me roll out of my chair laughing so hard at, "DON'T SAY THAT" Legitimately, I was laughing so hard, the video had played to almost the midpoint before I finally got a hold of myself. I gladly restarted from where I left off...

Okay- but hear me out. If a tomato is a fruit, is ketchup a smoothie?