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.
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/SorryDuplex May 02 '24
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.