soup

Literally anything can be soup... Except stew

A: "Coffee is just bean soup"
B: "yup, makes sense"

A: "pizza is just hard soup with dough"
B: "so true"

A: "a wall is just concrete soup with bricks
B: "of course, everything is soup"

A: "stew is honestly just soup"
B: "no you idiot, there is a defined difference between soup and stew"

stew

Like soup, but definitely not soup

No you blathering donkey I made a stew, not a soup