Is cereal a soup?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is cereal a soup?". Your opponent's style: Aristotle

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

You claim cereal is soup? Absurd. Soup is a *dish*, prepared by cooking ingredients together in liquid until they're unified. Cereal is a *commodity*—dry grain poured into a bowl, milk added as an afterthought. One requires heat, technique, transformation. The other requires a box and a carton. A bowl of cereal has discrete, unchanged components floating in milk. Minestrone becomes one coherent whole. Furthermore, no culture in human history called their breakfast cereal "soup" until someone made this ridiculous modern claim. Aristotle demands essences match—cereal lacks every essential quality of soup. Your move. What's your first defense?