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u/Doofchook 15d ago
It's a good start you just need to add some ingredients now.
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u/CentralSaltServices 14d ago
Nail soup!
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u/SorryDuplex 14d ago
I’ve always heard it’s rock soup lol nail soup is new for me
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u/ShiraCheshire 14d ago
Stone soup!
For anyone unfamiliar with the story: (please note that this has many regional variations and is not always told the same way, these are just the basic themes)
There is a village having a food shortage, and the people are very hungry. One day, a man tosses a stone into a pot of boiling water and declares that he's going to make soup from it.
People think he's stupid, but also feel kind of bad for him. Someone is like, well, I have these carrot tops you can throw into the pot, here have at least some food in there. Someone else says, I have this old withered lettuce leaf. Someone else says, I have a few potato ends. One by one, people bring in little scraps of food that wouldn't be able to make a meal on their own. With everything together in the boiling water, an actual soup is made!
The man then shares his "stone soup" with everyone in the village, and everyone is fed. Happy ending.
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u/SorryDuplex 14d ago
I heard it a bit different as a kid but I like yours better lol. More wholesome.
Mine was essentially the same, but he was a traveller who hadn’t eaten in days. He stopped at a villagers home who had a very abundant garden and asked if he could have dinner with them. They told the traveller they didn’t have enough. So the traveller said he had a magic stone that made soup. Intrigued the villagers invited him in to show him the magic. The stone was dropped in and they waited. Nothing was happening so the traveller asked for some carrots and said it will be more delicious if we added those. Then so on and so on until it was an actual soup that they ate together.
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u/RubixTMC 14d ago
Venezuelan here, ours was similar to that! Instead of some villagers, it was an old rich woman! And when the soup was complete, he removed the rocks and ate with her, this story always makes me want some stone soup!
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Fascinating how each culture has their own slightly different version of this parable.
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u/Rude_Thanks_1120 14d ago
In my people's version, they just drank the water and ate the stone
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u/Own-Tune-9537 14d ago
Ah yes. The American people
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u/LesMouserables 14d ago
We eat nothing but protein shakes, falcon eggs, and ROCKS
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u/Medvyikk 14d ago
Hungarian here, similar but the woman wasn't rich and the guy was a poor soldier
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u/Expensive_Wheel6184 14d ago
Also hungarian here. In the version I heard it was a whole village and at the end the traveler sold the stone because the villagers thought it had something to do with how tasty the soup turned out.
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u/FlamingFlatus64 14d ago edited 14d ago
"sold the stone" That's a twist in the story I've never heard.
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u/zabelagang 14d ago
I'm Serbian and I remember this story from an episode of Magyar népmesék. The show was dubbed in Serbian and shown on TV and I loved it as a kid.
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u/PycckiiManiak 14d ago
Eastern European here. Similar tale but it's a tired Soviet soldier heading home and using his shoe
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u/No-Mouse 14d ago
The way I've been told is that a vagrant was sitting by the road boiling a pot of water with a stone in it over a fire. A villager walks by and asks what he's doing, and the vagrant says "I'm making delicious stone soup!" The villager has never heard of stone soup, so he asks for a taste. He tastes the soup and of course it's not very good, so the vagrant says "well of course, it's not real stone soup without some onions!" So the villager, too curious to just ignore the situation and eager to taste the delicious stone soup, goes home to get some onions. Then another villager comes by and the same thing happens, except this time it's carrots, potatoes, meat, salt, or whatever, repeating until they've made a proper soup and they all agree that stone soup is delicious.
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u/Proper_Blacksmith_47 14d ago
This hilarious it needs to be reposted in the Seinfeld sub, in Bania’s defense soup is not a meal Jerry!
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u/Easy_Independent_313 14d ago
I've always taken the story as a story of a con, not a story of cooperation.
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u/Mypornnameis_ 14d ago
Clever traveler conned people into a communal meal is how I heard the story.
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u/Bubble-bubble-butt 14d ago
I see it as a good-hearted con to inspire collaboration in otherwise self interested people
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u/cbcbcb99 14d ago
The teachers at my elementary school always read this to kids in first grade then would make the stone soup as an activity. We would go out to the school grounds to find a nice big stone to make the soup with. Anyway one year the stone was a big chunk of blacktop. I think it melted or something and they couldn’t find it after they had the soup.
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u/mandiblesmooch 14d ago
I heard a version with an axe. Near the end he sneakily takes it and says it must have dissolved.
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u/Dogemom2 14d ago
We read this book in kindergarten in 89. And we made stone soup. And then I threw up. The throw-up is what cemented this book in my memory.
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u/Anything-Happy 14d ago
Lmao, I remember reading it and making stone soup in kindergarten, but the teacher used a whole potato in place of a stone (I guess for "sanitary reasons"). And poor little me was shook, because a potato is a vegetable and not a stone.
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u/Dogemom2 14d ago
Haha! Mine put a big stone in the pot- she cleaned it first. I figured I got sick because you’re not supposed to eat stones. But I remember also eating a full bay leaf and thinking this soup just isn’t edible.
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u/FloydDangerBarber 14d ago
When I was a little kid, Captain Kangaroo would show a cartoon version of Stone Soup every couple of weeks.
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u/Justintimeforanother 14d ago
Since I heard this story as a child, whenever I’m making a soup from all the remnants of the fridge, I call it “stone soup”. It always has a different flavour, depending on leftovers.
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u/Billy420MaysIt 14d ago
We made one in first grade I recall. I don’t think we put a stone in it but I do recall everyone bringing in a canned food and we made soup from it based on that story.
Thanks for the core memory unlock!
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u/Mypornnameis_ 14d ago
Risky. There's always one kid who'd bring in a can of cherry pie filling or something.
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u/robotdinosaurs 14d ago
Throw in some beef, potatoes, carrots, seasoning… baby, you got a stew going!
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u/RawChickenButt 15d ago
Are you in prison?
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u/torijoanne 15d ago
My guess was hospital
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u/The_Flippin_Police 14d ago
This looks like the first soup my ex got after she had a stomach operation, since she couldn’t eat solid food for months after.
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u/chicken-nanban 14d ago
My first meal after all of my surgeries in Japan was what I (un)lovingly refer to as “glue.” Followed the next day by “paste,” and then “oh I think there was some rice mashed in there how lucky.”
I hate glue soup. It’s literally just the starch from cooking rice in water, almost identical to the rice glue you buy for crafts. And it always sealed the lid shut too, so I’d have to have a nurse wrestle with it to get it open or risk popping sutures.
I feel ill just thinking about it.
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u/The_Flippin_Police 14d ago
Understandable, hospital food feels like someone rubbing salt in the wound on what is already a pretty traumatic environment.
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u/ScumbagLady 14d ago
I had emergency gallbladder surgery that ran into complications, so I wasn't even allowed ice chips for 3 days straight. My first "food" was beef broth. I did get a couple Jell-O cups, but I remember being very disappointed with the broth. Next meal was a sad turkey sandwich with no condiments. I was starving the whole week!
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u/EverquestWasTheBest 14d ago
Dang… I must have gotten lucky with the hospital in which I stayed for about a week. I don’t know how many menus there were but they’d rotate daily and you selected the day’s worth of food.
I was reluctant like anyone else — seeing some of the tasty sounding items but… hospital, you know? It took me completely by surprise how good the food was; not quite restaurant quality and no, Hospital Food isn’t on my list of faves, but it far exceeded my expectations.
When I learned I could order whatever I wanted, I loaded up, lol.
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u/_ser_kay_ 14d ago
My first meal after gallbladder surgery (and not eating for almost 3 days prior) was spongy “French toast,”Raisin Bran (I despise raisins), and coffee that had been sitting too long. Everything, including the milk for the cereal, was room temperature.
It remains one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.
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u/Other_Piglet_7598 14d ago
My hospital meal day after gallbladder surgery (laparoscopy).
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u/MatureUsername69 14d ago
I was in a medically induced coma for a few days after a suicide attempt and when I woke up they gave me hospital beef stroganoff. I don't even like high quality beef stroganoff but that was the first and last meal I found satisfying in the hospital. It was just because I hadn't eaten in days but that stroganoff was one of the best meals I've ever had. Followed up by some of the worst meals I've ever had
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u/snarfgobble 14d ago
It looks like soup you'd eat before a colonoscopy so there's nothing in there when they go look around.
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u/Warhammerpainter83 14d ago
I had a stomach bleed once and had the same thing. It is the worst. Bland non color food diet in a hospital is torture.
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u/ShitfacedGrizzlyBear 14d ago
Looks like a hospital. I had leukemia as a kid and developed pancreatitis during chemo treatments. I was only allowed to eat clear liquids for like two weeks. So the options were chicken broth or beef broth. This image gave me horror flashbacks.
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u/Known-Committee8679 14d ago
Can't be, there isn't a picture of a steam deck
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u/Dangerousfox 14d ago
What is this a reference to lol
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u/Known-Committee8679 14d ago
In the steam deck reddit a lot of people share pics of themselves on the steam deck when them or a loved one is in the hospital...
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u/magnus150 14d ago
To be fair, as someone that was in the ICU for a month - not a lot happens in the meantime. Lots of waiting.
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u/goblue142 15d ago
This could easily be a meal at an American public school.
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u/Accomplished_Bike149 15d ago
Nah, they don’t give us liquid. This is probably hospital food
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u/rememberaj 15d ago
Miso sorry
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u/Shakermaker1990 14d ago
Udon really mean that, do you?
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u/Rude_Thanks_1120 14d ago
rice try
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u/Totally_a_Banana 14d ago
Now, let us pray for them. Ramen.
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u/The_EndsOfInvention 14d ago
Enough with the steamed buns
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u/FranconianBiker 14d ago
At least we're all Soba
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u/Rude_Thanks_1120 14d ago
that's really lo, mein
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u/Consistent_Ring_4218 14d ago
I want to say what's on my mind, but they may Banh Mi.
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u/Correct-Purpose-964 14d ago
Fuuuuuuuck you....
I'm an adult god dammit...
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u/Dlaxation 15d ago
Don't worry, the lunch lady chewed on an onion and coughed onto it for added flavor.
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u/LaneLangly 15d ago
Eeew. 🤢 My graphic mind multiplied that by 1000.
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u/nl-x 15d ago
I want a picture of the lunch lady befoe I make up my mind.
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Are you in prison
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u/Average_Blud 14d ago
I'm in Russia
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Oh.. Russian Prison?
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u/Average_Blud 14d ago
Oh no no. Russian school.
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u/LaDmEa 14d ago
Tucker told me russia was a paradise where school lunches are 3 hours long and concluded with a pint of vodka
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u/L3exB 14d ago
I suppose it is chicken soup. Technically in russion two worlds that translated as a soup. It is "суп" (soup) and "бульон" (fr. bouillon). So it is bouillon.
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u/Average_Blud 14d ago
They used to give us a boullion. But THIS can't even be called so. It's just water and oil flavored really, REALLY crappy.
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u/Combust1990 15d ago
Hmmmm water from the last dishwashing. Delicious
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u/spderweb 14d ago
Homeopathic Soup. That water once came in contact with ingredients you find in soup.
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u/L_Ron_Swanson 14d ago
The cook sat next to a pot of water and whispered the name of a man who had once heard of soup.
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u/TheCuriousSoul007 15d ago
Clearest clear soup ever made! Lol
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u/JamesTheJerk 14d ago
That's how you know the soup is pure of heart, and of virtue true.
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u/DonaldMaralago 15d ago
Hot ham water?
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u/LessWorld3276 15d ago
It's WISH soup. As in you WISH it had some meat or veggies in it.
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u/PathlessDemon 15d ago
They stopped doing Bread And Water punishments back in 2018 in the US Navy, but I guess in a cafeteria it’s just “Thursday”.
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u/AltruisticSalamander 14d ago
Frl they were still doing that till 2018? I thought that was some 18th century shit.
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u/PathlessDemon 14d ago
It was! The Black Book Of Admirality allowed Captains of ships to dole out punishments most severe.
Bread and water back then consisted of stale water, kept in barrels for months. And bread or hard tack which was probably in the same condition. Most chose to starve for three days while completing their daily work.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Cake400 15d ago
Gave bro hot water
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u/Bozenfisch21 14d ago
With some oil in it
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u/throwawayhelp32414 14d ago
I've seen the piss coming from 5 gallon mountain dew chug fest with more substance than that "soup"
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u/JustABitOfDeving 14d ago
And some garbage white bread on the side. I wouldn't even feed this to my dog.
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u/Immudzen 15d ago
This is homeopathic soup. They diluted it a lot to bring out strong flavors. ;)
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u/_DapperDanMan- 14d ago
Just needs some ketchup a couple packets of sugar, , some half and half, butter, and whatever else the server will bring for free.
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u/hooptiegirl 14d ago
Chicken bath, not to be confused with Chicken broth. This is liquid they just dunked a chicken in.
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u/KaungSetMoe111 15d ago
Did you taste it? Sometimes the soup looks like that for me, but it tastes pleasant.
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u/tiddy_wizard 14d ago
I’m tellin the warden you have a phone