Soup , defined byMerriam - Websteras " a liquid food specially with a meat , fish , or vegetable stock as a foot and often containing pieces of self-colored food , " is the ultimate simple quilt food . But if you look nigher at the definition , you ’ll notice it ’s surprisingly vague . Is ramen soup ? What about gumbo ? Is a soja vanilla extract latte really a type of three - bean soup ? The subjectiveness of linguistic process makes this simple food category a lot more complicated than it seems .
That ’s the breathing in behindSomething Something Soup Something , a new video game that has participant pronounce peach as either soup or not soup . consort toWaypoint , Italian philosopher , architect , and secret plan designer Stefano Gualeni create the secret plan after traveling the public asking people what institute soup . After interviewing candidates of 23 different nationalities , he conclude that the definition of soup " depends on the region , historical menses , and the person with whom you ’re speaking . "
Gualeni take this real - life sentence confusion and utilize it to a sci - fi setting . InSomething Something Soup Something , you play as a low - pay supernumerary - terrestrial proletarian in the yr 2078 preparing repast for human patronage . Your job is to determine which dish pass as " soup " and can be help to the hungry guests while void any items that may terminate up poisoning them . Options might include " rocks with celery and batteries in a loving cup attend to with chopsticks " or a " foamy liquid with a candy cane and a cooked ballock service in a arena with a branching . "
The five - minute game is meant to be tongue - in - cheek , but Gualeni also hopes to get citizenry thinking about veridical philosophical interrogation . According to itsdescription Thomas Nelson Page , the game is meant to reveal " that even a intimate , ordinary concept like ' soup ' is vague , shifty , and impossible to define thoroughly . "
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