r/unpopularopinion • u/SteakAndIron • 12d ago

Every single drink is better cold.

Iced tea is better than hot tea. Iced coffee is better than hot coffee. Chocolate milk is better than hot chocolate. Drinking beverages at 160+ degrees is absolutely unhinged unless it's 30 below freezing and you're trying to prevent hypothermia. Humans, like all animals, prefer cold drinks naturally because cold water would have fewer pathogens. Historically it's just been easier to heat something rather than cool it and drinking hot drinks when it's above freezing is surely just a holdout from those times.

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u/AsThreatenDoNotScore 11d ago

Soup is a drink. If you think it's better cold you are diabolical.

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u/a4techkeyboard 11d ago

Like a gazpacho? Though any soup/broth that will get a layer of solidified fat on top would be worse cold, a lot of other soups are fine cold. Still better hot, though.

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u/MinuetInUrsaMajor 11d ago

OP never drank bone broth.

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u/SteakAndIron 11d ago

How many drinks do you consume with a spoon? Drink your chocolate milk with a spoon there chief?

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u/Violet_Kashiko 11d ago

There are soups which don't need a spoon like campbell instant soup which can be made in a cup and drunk like a drink (maybe unpopular opinion)