I give you this conundrum:

At what point in viscosity, do we move from eating to drinking something?

Discuss.

Well you eat yoghurt. I propose at the point where you can have something heaped on a spoon.

Twice as viscous as your average frijj milkshake

I'd say that cant be right skillers...

Thick milkshake can still be sucked thorugh a straw, but you could heap it on a spoon... and you "eat" custard.... Even though those two examples viscosity overlaps...

Custard is a weird one because you eat it with something, unless you're weird. Like gravy.

when custard is a non-Newtonian liquid and technically it is a sold some of the time.

it beginds and ends where society deems it to be. if it's sold in a cup you drink it if sold in a smaller cup served with a spoon you eat it.

It depends on what they think will sell it better and put it in packaging occordingly. Thus determining that it's not based on the thickness but what your promoting it as!

EDIT: expanding this custard is a good example as if you were served it in a glass without knowing what it is, you would drink it because thats how its promoted, yet you put it in a bowl and suddenly yoru eating your dessert, with the custard.

Also Soup. Soup is much thinner than Frijj milkshake yet you never drink soup unless said soup is in fact Cup-a-soup. You will normall eat your soup using your spoon out of a bowl.

Imagine if cola was served in a bowl, with a spoon, as a pre-meal dish? marketed as energising your taste buds for your meal. it would not as sold as well but you would eat coke as it's a meal not a drink.

I totally forgot about soup.... That proves more evidence that viscosity has nothing to do with it...

I happen to think Kyhas is probably nearest the reality of the situation.

What about energy drinks and proteinshakes then?

We dont eat those O_o

I think it should be determined by the ease of eating via chopsticks

soup with chopsticks! i rest my case

Soup is a weird one, I've heard both terms applied to a bowl of soup.

@skillers yes based on how its served up no doubt, drinking soup out of a bowl is bad manners.

@schlurbi you don't drink the soup unless you take it via a straw or bring the bowl lip to your mouth which is rude and kids should be taught out of. any way you eat it with a spoon, like you eat ice cream with a spoon except icecream is colder and more solid temporarily.

Nah, I've heard people use the work drink even with a spoon

You don't, but you do say "I eat soup". Well, most of the time (see my previous post). I guess it's one of the quirks of the English language is that it isn't really well defined.

Refer to my original post!

lol

Its based how it is served to you, coffee is served in a cup so you drink it, soup in a bowl with a spoon so you eat it.

When you can suck it out of a dominatrixes crusty love socket, then it's drinking

Will has experience. He paid for it.

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i say, if this is that important, ban soup from all youre servers....

are you both talking like snobs on purpose?? no offence lol but I cant stop laughing when I read the first 2 posts XD "I propose as the point" whats all that about? LOLOL? XD

Thats just how us intellectuals talk