Simply saying, "I'm having soup." tends to avoid that conundrum.
Technically you both eat and drink soup, if there is any solid substance to it, but either adjective would cause criticism if someone really wanted to be picky, so it's better to avoid using both terms when informing someone that you're consuming soup.
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That kinda sounds like a liberal's thing "Use soup neutral verbs to avoid offending people and be politically correct about your soup verbs"
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Edited by Masque of Night: 6/30/2015 2:43:38 AMIt's not about offending anyone or political correctness, it's about making a sensible sentence. Soup can be both eaten or drank, depending on its contents, so taking the neutral road is simply the most sensible to avoid any possible confusion. But clever comparison, sort of, I suppose. I'm completely disinterested with politics and/or what's going to happen to this world, so it doesn't quite appeal to me.
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I was just making a joke i'm not trying to argue over soup verbs haha
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Oh I know. I'm just feeling sad right now, so I won't be pumping out very humorous responses.
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That's what I do but I often wonder if there is an established definition for the consumption of soup.