A soup by any other name might actually be a stew or a chowder. While the category of soup is admittedly broad, spanning everything from pureed vegetable soups like butternut squash to chunky soups ...
If you're hungry and don't mind the thought of room-temperature mollusk meat, you might want to eat clam chowder straight from a can. But is it pre-cooked?
The homemade clam chowder comes highly recommended. However, if preparing it yourself is difficult due to time constraints, or if clams are not readily available where you live, canned clam ...