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Therefore they are more properly classified as soups.

Noted ontologist Pirate Software would argue that cats are a Wellington, not a soup.

I can't refute his logic.

Save for their skeletons and other dry structures like hair and shells, animals are in fact gels.

Maybe they're more broth-like? Also the paper at https://www.drgoulu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rheology-... seems to indicate that they are "active rheological materials" and therefore probably non-Newtonian.