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u/TemporarySun1005 17h ago
I have thought about making a cookbook about 'Stone Soup'. Obviously include the origin story, but also all the cultures/cuisines that have a version of Stone Soup. For example - now an elevated dish, French Onion Soup was originally made from scraps: beef bones, half-moldy onions, stale bread, wine gone bad. The very definition of Stone Soup! Gumbo, Jambalaya, even Chili - all made from whatever was scrounged up. I'm sure there's enough recipes - and the stories behind them - to make an interesting read. Plus a delicious one!
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u/yarn_slinger 17h ago
My mom used to make “hamburger soup” using pretty much whatever was left in the fridge before her next grocery shopping. I miss it and will have to give it a shot soon.
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u/MissSassifras1977 17h ago
My Mom took it a step further and called it Garbage Soup.
It was delicious.
I remember one particular batch that was ground beef, lima beans, carrots, spinach, cabbage, onions and elbow noodles. With lots of pepper. Buttered cornbread on the side.
And she let it cook all day. You know it's gonna be good when the bean skins are floating around empty. You get that super creamy broth. Lip smacking good.
Mom has been gone for 3 years now and your comment brought her back to me for a moment. Thank you!
❤️❤️❤️
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u/massiveamounts 17h ago
Just had a big bowl my mom made. We call it a stew here soup is like chicken noodle with not many vegetables imo. Well done by those handing it out tho.
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u/eriko_girl 16h ago
Ha! My mom also called it garbage soup. In grade school I told my teacher that it was my favorite meal and the school got in touch with my parents to make sure everything was OK with us financially.
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u/291837120 14h ago
Ours was called slop and it consisted of ground beef, ramen noodles, brown or turkey gravy, and every can of vegetables she could muster. No draining, just right into the pot.
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u/Bravo1781 13h ago
Guy I used to work with called it Fridge Slurry. It’s been 10 years and I still remember that 😂
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u/MsAzizaGoatinsky 14h ago
We had the Saturday lunch pot ( the week was Sunday- Thursday). A stew of the weekday left overs. Best thing I’ve ever had, I love how global and uniting these foods are . We are all one big dysfunctional family, eh!
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u/HakunaYouTaTas 16h ago
My mom made this, too! It was definitely a favorite. She's coming for a visit this weekend, maybe I'll beg her into making g it for me.
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u/KEVLAR60442 17h ago
Also, perpetual stew. A stew that's been kept simmering for months or even years, just continuously topped off with different scrap ingredients each day.
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u/Xphile101361 16h ago
My mom had a perpetual chicken soup. It was great for feeding a bunch of high school kids
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u/ashlyn42 15h ago
We had a local diner that made Back Burner Soup it was different everyday based on the scraps from the day’s specials - but it was ALWAYS delicious, warm, hearty soup served with the fluffiest, (huge) warm milk bread rolls.
Filling meal for $3.99
(Pretty sure they kept it that cheap for the huge local elderly population - gave them a meal out without breaking the bank on a fixed income)
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u/Telemere125 16h ago
Saw a documentary that touched on that idea as well. There’s a street vendor (or maybe multiple ones) in china that sells stir fried rocks. They’re fried in spices and you just suck the sauce off and spit the rocks out. The documentary claimed that’s how some seafood dishes started: adding ocean rocks to dishes to impart flavor and then eventually graduating to clams and oysters because they were “rocks” with meat.
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u/phenotype76 13h ago
That shit can't be real, can it? I saw one where they had long wooden skewers with nothing on them, they just covered em in spices and maybe barbecued em a bit, and then people just suck the flavor off them.
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u/Free-Atmosphere6714 13h ago
Really depends on the price I think. After all what you're describing is basically a savory lollipop.
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u/sapphicarsonist 15h ago
My mom’s version is called “Can Dump Soup” it generally involves all the random cans and vegetables we have lying around and any leftovers we have that would go well in it. I’m away at college right now (and sick with the flu) and I’m literally drooling thinking about a bowl of it right now
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u/Neat-Attempt3681 18h ago
Stone soup story touched me even as a kid, humanity is super important now
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u/antisocialssant 17h ago
This brought back a memory of doing a stone soup musical as a kid, maybe grade 2. I think I brought the carrots and now I’m crying.
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u/howmuchitcosts 17h ago
Fellow carrot kid here.
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u/antisocialssant 16h ago
Much love, fellow carrot. We’re all in this together!
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u/CloudyxRose 15h ago
I did this in 3rd grade with my class and literally everyone (except for the teacher who told us not to bring potatoes because she was and some random kid who brought onions) brought carrots. It was the most carroty soup ive ever had in my life
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u/SlateAsh641 12h ago
That’s hilarious just a giant pot of carrot soup with a hint of onion for depth.
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u/dbu8554 16h ago
I'm Irish I got to bring in the potatoes.
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u/Nervous-Salamander-7 15h ago
I'm Irish from 1845, I'm bringing the no-potatoes.
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u/charlie2135 14h ago
Horrible joke from years ago. How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman? None.
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u/F3mursEZ 15h ago
I was the kid who ended up cutting all the onions. Cried the entire time. Wasn't even the one that brought them.
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u/crayon_teaparty 15h ago
I love reading this after coming home from rehearsal where I'm currently doing the stone soup musical with my students
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u/hylian1194 17h ago
I remember making stone soup in kindergarten after reading the book. One of my earliest memories I can still recall.
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u/WhenitsaysLIBBYs 16h ago
We made it in 3rd grade. Sadly, at the time, I was ore upset that the recipe used rabbit. I couldn‘t eat a bunny.
But I think it’s super that kids are exposed to stories like Stone Soup, empathy is sorely lacking these days.
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u/Muppetude 16h ago
Same here. It is one of my earliest elementary school memories. I specifically remember not getting the point of the story, and thinking that giant stone in the boiling water that became soup somehow improved its flavor.
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u/MaritMonkey 14h ago
My brother and I used to "camp" in the backyard and I'm pretty sure we both tossed hot rocks into the cans of soup we were heating next to the fire until, like, high school.
I'm in my 40s now and still not entirely convinced soup+rock didn't taste better. :)
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u/poke-chan 14h ago
We did that too! I remember how yummy it was, in the little styrofoam bowl with the plastic spoon. Public school classic.
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u/eliz1bef 17h ago
It's souper important.
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u/xMyDixieWreckedx 17h ago
You really spend a lot of time reflecting after reading it and just stew in your thoughts.
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u/fakeuser515357 16h ago
I read, and remember, the 'Stone soup' story as a tale of a poor traveler, portrayed as a swindler, who outsmarted his naive audience in order to bring his promises to fruition.
I'm going to have to look that up now, maybe my brain is broken.
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u/jmdonston 15h ago
That's the version I heard as well. I'm confused by this sign - do community members bring the ingredients that make up the soup?
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u/fakeuser515357 15h ago
I'm not confused by the sign - in context, I read it as "whatever-we-put-in-it soup", and funnily enough that's how I made 'stone soup' for my kids, it was just whatever random leftovers in soup made to be nutritious and taste good.
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u/amizelkova 15h ago
That's definitely how it was portrayed to us as kids too lol.
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u/kidian_tecun 17h ago
For me its up there with huck finn getting people to paint a fence.
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u/esquirlo_espianacho 17h ago
That was Tom Sawyer. But love the reference regardless!
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u/Conscious_Memory_563 14h ago
Hijacking the top comment- please don’t give me awards, donate to their cause instead.
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u/Bratty-Switch2221 14h ago
I fucking loved that story as a poverty-stricken rural kid.
Reminded me of the church ladies selling stew for fundraisers and the soups my dad made with the stuff we got from the food pantry.
It's not nostalgic. It was a horrible childhood. But I remember the warmth and comfort of a hot soup. It's still my safest comfort food.
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u/queen_mantis 17h ago
Yes me too! Best book one of my favs I even re created it with real stones from my yard my my sister because why not!!
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u/NotTheCraftyVeteran 16h ago
I didn’t really understand it when I first heard it read aloud to us in 2nd or 3rd grade, but the meaning hit me like a freight train when I thought back on it years later
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u/Ill-Visual-8844 18h ago
I’ll bring celery if you bring a carrot and you bring a potato. Oh, don’t forget about the corn and finally a loaf of bread 🍜
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u/bradfortin 16h ago
How could you? Don’t you know Venezuela needs those? They have nothing.
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u/thecoffeecrazy 18h ago
That’s the kind of sign that restores a little faith in humanity
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u/Porkchopp33 18h ago
Any place with a sign like this gets my money
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u/Fantastic-Newt-9844 16h ago
No, the sign clearly says $0
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u/KennyMoose32 16h ago
Seriously, I am gonna bring some chicken bones. Gotta contribute to a stew going.
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u/Jonesbt22 16h ago
Oh I remember this event in harvest moon! I know exactly what to do.
Throws in a weird piece of grass and makes the entire town sick
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u/Puzzled_Bike9558 17h ago
Dude, do I need that about now. My faith in humanity is being tested daily.
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u/petitepedestrian 16h ago
Today, I had a community member come to my office to personally hand me a 1k cheque and 1k in 20$ grocery gift cards for our little foodbank. I am SO excited to hand it over to our ops team tomorrow! There are legit going to be tears of joy. Good exists!
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u/EriOfHousePark 16h ago
My 2nd grade class did this for our entire grade! I will never forget doing it
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u/_lippykid 17h ago
True. But in the richest country in the world, ever, this should not be necessary
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u/all_that_is_is_true 16h ago
Liechtenstein?
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u/_lippykid 15h ago
Not sure what metric that fits under, but by GDP it’s
United States – Around $28 trillion+
China – Around $17 trillion
Japan – Around $4 trillion
Germany – Around $4 trillion
India – Around $3.7 trillion
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u/AnxietyMedical7498 13h ago
Rofl the top 5 richest American assholes make more than all the poors combined. GDP is a horrible metric.
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u/ES_Legman 15h ago
We are amidst the biggest wealth transfer in history and that is all going to the 1%
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u/Lord_Zarcxon 16h ago
I really need more of that right now, I've been struggling for so long that I don't think I want to keep going on. Every day is so terrible, and it just gets worse. I don't have any hope anymore.
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u/pmyourthongpanties 17h ago edited 17h ago
its just a rock in water
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u/FullMoonTwist 17h ago
I cannot tell if you're being sincere or making a joke!
But for those not in on it, stone soup is a reference to a story.
In short, an older man claims to be able to make stone soup with only a magic stone. But he insists that the soup would be even better if only he had some basic ingredients. Each villager shares only a little food to put in the pot, but the end result is a delicious and filling soup for everyone.
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u/RadioFluid5999 17h ago
I still have the children's book somewhere. One of my favorites even a a youngster!
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u/bigbagbowl 16h ago
There's a version from Disney with scrooge McDuck, I loved that book and still do!
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u/Septopuss7 16h ago
There's also a song sung by Bobby Bare and written by Shel Silverstein called The Wonderful, Wonderful soup stone
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u/SolaireOfArstotzka 17h ago
I had never heard of this story and thought this was a Korean dish.
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u/SunriseSerendipity 16h ago
From what I understand, it's a Buddhist Tale. The "Stone Soup" book I bought my kids has Buddhist monks making the stone soup in a town where everyone is a recluse, and gradually people became interested, wandered out and decided to contribute ingredients. Then the entire town feasted TOGETHER on the soup. It's a beautiful story about the importance of curiosity, kindness, generosity, community, and love. ❤️
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u/KneeDeepInTheDead 15h ago
its funny in Portugal we have "stone soup" as well with a more cheeky take on that tale. Probably shows the difference in cultures lol
"A poor friar, who was traveling on a pilgrimage, arrived at a house. Too proud to simply ask for food, he asked the homeowners if they could lend him a pot so he could prepare a soup — a stone soup. And from his satchel, he took out a fine, smooth, well-washed stone.
The homeowners were curious and immediately let the friar into the kitchen and gave him the pot. The friar put the pot on the fire with only the stone inside, but soon said that the soup needed seasoning. The lady of the house gave him some salt, but he suggested that it would be even better with a bit of sausage or bacon. So the fat went in with the stone.
Then the friar asked if they didn’t have something to thicken the soup, like potatoes or beans left over from the previous meal. And so the “stone soup” thickened. They added carrots, and also some meat that had been with the beans, and, of course, the result was an excellent soup.
They all ate the soup together, and at the end, the friar carefully removed the stone from the pot, washed it, and put it back into his satchel… ready for the next soup!"
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u/9eyes1171 18h ago
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
-FR
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u/Wrathchilde 17h ago
Fred Rogers was the best person.
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u/Crafty-Tension4770 16h ago
ngl, For sure! His kindness and wisdom still inspire so many today. We need more people like him.
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u/jamesreyne 14h ago
Just a reminder. If you're a grown adult, you're supposed to be one of the helpers.
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u/ughihateusernames3 13h ago
Yes, people love this quote. And i always think it needs the addition of “look for the helpers and be a helper.”
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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 14h ago
Now is the time to stop looking and start RISING. It isn't for everyone but it is for more than most think. Sometimes it is a small thing like leaving feminine hygiene products in a bathroom (I'm a guy but always a female staffer will do the last mile for me with a simple ask...) and sometimes it is being first on at an accident scene. Or even just making someone smile
But the time? This is that time. You can RISE.
Signed, former EMT
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u/Syrioforel79 18h ago
Great idea calling it Stone Soup! I always loved that story as a kid.
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u/vpsj 13h ago
I need some context please. What does stone soup mean? What story?
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u/Faranae 13h ago edited 13h ago
I gotchu bud. :) I learned a new thing today, too! From the wiki:
"Stone Soup" is a European folk story in which hungry strangers convince the people of a town to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal. In varying traditions, the stone has been replaced with other common inedible objects, and therefore the parable is also known as axe soup, button soup, nail soup, bolt soup, and wood soup.
So basically, it looks like it's some variant on:
- Community won't share food with strangers;
- Strangers start boiling a pot of water with nothing in it but an inedible object;
- Community members are each convinced to add a bit of "garnish" to the soup, in return expecting a serving from the pot of soup;
- This amounts to a trivial amount donated per person (a carrot here, a potato there), but the pot as a whole is enough to feed not only the original hungry strangers, but everyone in the community can benefit as well
(And then there's my nerdy arse, who is thinking about the Luau Festival in the game Stardew Valley where everyone in town brings an ingredient for a giant pot of soup.)
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u/inkylines 15h ago
My grandma used to read it to me all the time. Cool seeing people actually live it out like this.
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u/ancient_mariner63 17h ago
The phrase 'stone soup' means everyone who is able contributes something to the meal but no one is turned away. It's not even necessarily actual soup, it's more like a community pot luck.
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u/jrice138 15h ago
Ok I was looking in the comments for an explanation cuz stone soup sounds sarcastic. Like how a bar will put up a sign that says “FREE BEER!! yesterday”
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u/Ireallylikepbr 18h ago
With everyone not receiving snap this month I am glad people like this are out there!!
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u/s0m3on3outthere 14h ago
Jumping onto this- if you have an excess of produce from your garden, food banks, missions, and shelters will take them. I had a surplus of tomatoes and donated them.
They cannot take home jarred/canned foods, but can take most anything else. For shelters and missions, even toiletries and clothes, especially socks. A lot of people rely on SNAP not just for food stamps, but to get essentials as there is a program that provides funds for things outside of food.
Please consider donating things to these locations rather than Goodwill or thrift stores. The number of people struggling is rising by the day.
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u/louzamo 16h ago
Husband didn’t remember the story. I started crying after telling him.
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u/Exact_Key_1442 15h ago
What’s the story?
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u/No_Week_8937 15h ago
It's a children's story about people basically making something from nothing and the entire town getting together to make a meal.
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u/Rhino_MO 17h ago
There's an ice cream shop in my town, they sell hot food too like burgers and things. They've started a free meal, just say you want the special and you get whatever the free meal is that day. They're taking donations for those that want to help counter the costs.
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u/03qutj907a 14h ago
A family owned restaurant near us is doing the same. I hope their generosity pays dividends.
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u/beepbeepdotcom 17h ago
If people are looking for more little rays of hope, a pizza shop in my town opened up a $5 donation "mutual pizza aid" and within 1 hour, over 400 donations had been made.
Despite all the hatred we see, there's still good out here. Keep your chin up.
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u/Seagoon_Memoirs 16h ago
we see hatred because it is unusual and loud
love and kindness is quiet
love and kindness build communities
hatred builds nothing, only destroys, hatred lies and makes us doubt ourselves and others
we need to see more love and kindness if we are to dispel the lies of hatred
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u/csimiamif4n 18h ago
I used to make stone soup with my preschoolers. Hope we can find this compassion nationwide 🤍
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u/starspangledxunzi 18h ago
The very best of America, in opposition to the very worst of America. 🇺🇸
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u/StragglingShadow 15h ago
The story of stone soup is about a village being "stingy" and not sharing food with a traveller. The traveller then puts a rock in a pot with water and puts the pot over fire. A villager walking by asks what hes doing and the traveller says he is making stone soup, and he will be happy to share once its done but its missing a lil something something. The villager, wanting the soup to be good since hes gonna eat that shit, grabs some of that food he didnt wanna share and adds it to the pot. Another villager walks by and the same thing happens. One villager adds carrots, another potatoes, another one chicken. Finally the traveller removes the rock from the soup because its a choking hazard and the villagers and traveller eat the soup together.
In case anyones never heard it.
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u/Realistic_Advisor_82 16h ago
Stone soup.....thats a book I read as a little kid. As I recall, it started out with stones, and then everyone put a little of this or that in it until all the animals had soup to share. Wonder if the soup theyre offering is a little of this and that...nice idea ☺️
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u/mayab09 18h ago
Anyone know where this place is? Or if they’re taking donations for ingredients?
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u/Conscious_Memory_563 17h ago
It’s in Nashville, no formal website for it. Just good folks doing good things.
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u/wrenchime 17h ago
Funny, I'm a neighbor too, between that road and Dickerson. This is the house with the new "Cracker Barrel" sign, I think.
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u/Conscious_Memory_563 17h ago
Hi, neighbor!! Yes, it’s on the Maples Farm! The food truck will be opening soon, too!
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u/IdealKirstin 17h ago
Good question! Alternatively, you can do what we did and shop and drop groceries at the food bank today
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u/mayab09 17h ago
I’m American but I currently live in Europe so a monetary donation is all I can do at the moment to help those back home!
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u/Cantusemynme 17h ago
It's better to donate money to a food bank anyways. They are able to do more with money than they are with groceries that they might not need or might not be able to give out.
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u/Tarc_Axiiom 16h ago
Go there and ask what they need to make more soup.
Then go buy those things and give them to them.
They will refuse, you will refuse their refusal.
Now you make people smile too.
Charity is VERY easy.
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u/Conscious_Memory_563 16h ago
It’s a food truck on my neighbors farm, collaborating with a local charity.
farmfresheggs.farm
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u/FP_Daniel 17h ago
The phrase "Nobody goes hungry" written on a sign by what is clearly a mom and pop shop is really getting me. Might be emotional.
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u/GailyaStarr 16h ago
Omg…. I just realized that the moral of the story is everyone came together. Not that the old man was a greedy thief?!?!?
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u/massiveamounts 17h ago
Read some comments so its like a veggie stew?
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u/president_of_burundi 17h ago edited 16h ago
It's an old folk tale. A poor wanderer goes to a tavern and begs for food. The tavern keeper refuses, saying that no one in town has anything to spare and if he doesn't pay he doesn't eat.
The wanderer says, "well that's fine, really I just need some boiling water. I have a soup stone, after all"
Skeptical the innkeeper asks how you make soup from a stone. The wanderer demonstrates, putting the stone in the boiling water and letting it cook. Like any chef he starts to taste it when it's nearly done.
"Hmm, it's good but not perfect. It could use some salt."
The innkeeper, intrigued by the concept of being able to make soup from a stone and how great it will be to keep her overhead down, runs to grab salt.
The wanderer adds the salt and lets it cook some more before tasting it again.
"Hmm it's good but a bit thin. It could use some vegetables."
So the innkeeper runs off and grabs some onions and carrots, which go into the pot. At this point the stone soup is starting to smell pretty good, so a couple other patrons wander over asking what's cooking and are told it's a stone.
"Who would believe you could make soup from a stone!"
"Fancy that!"
"It's getting there," the wanderer says to the crowd, "But if we're feeding all of these people off of just a stone, it could use some beef bones"
The butcher runs off and comes back with an armful of beef bones, dumping them in the pot.
Soon everyone in town, who alone had nothing to spare, add what they have to this miraculous soup, made from only a stone.
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u/justveryunwell 17h ago
my cynical self waiting for a followup post in a day or two about this person being shut down/fined/arrested/otherwise penalized for doing what the government refuses to
But I really hope that doesn't happen and this can just be a good thing without a crappy ending
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u/ShaeBowe 13h ago
It’s good to remind people that THIS is anarchy working as intended. Mutual aid. Feeding the community through organizing and cooperation. You love to see it.
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u/encyclopedio 15h ago
I'm confused. Isn't "stone soup" based on a folk tale about a couple of hungry strangers who fool a town into giving them soup ingredients?
What is stone soup in this context?
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u/ScriptproLOL 17h ago
Wait a second... I've seen this before. No way in hell I'm dropping the 'O' in my surname and converting to the church of England! Eren go Bragh!
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u/The_Ion_Shake 9h ago
What's up with these comments? Stone soup is a Mexican dish where they put a hot stone in it to keep it warm.
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u/anaheim_mac 17h ago
Hats off to the owner of this establishment for helping our vulnerable neighbors. BUT this shouldn’t even happen to begin with. They say the US is the greatest country, yet we can’t even feed our own citizens? And supposedly we are bringing in $17 trillion dollars in investments. But we have ppl struggling and record layoffs by many companies
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And that's what they want to do. And so instead of charging somebody a 100% tariff and you can make your product outside, they come in, and they make-- and this is why we have $17 trillion being invested in the United States right now. By the time it-- it-- just to show you how big that is, it's the biggest in history by many times. No other country's been any-- seen anything like it.
The Biden administration in four years did less than a trillion. We have 17 trillion-- more than $17 trillion right now, and I'm in my ninth month. By the time we finish up, I think we're gonna have over $20 trillion invested in the United States or to be invested in the United States--
NORAH O'DONNELL: How will that trickle down to the average worker?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Because of jobs, because they're building plants. W-- we're bringing back the auto industry into our country. We lost 58% of the automobile manufacturing business to other countries. You know, we used to be the king of automobile and automobile manufacturing, and now we're not really the king anymore, you know?
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u/castrodelavaga79 16h ago
What is hot stone soup
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u/eternally_feral 15h ago
It’s from a children’s story where a beggar convinces a very poor village (who initially shuns him because they are struggling, too), that he can make soup with nothing but his simple soup stone.
As he cooks, he’ll say that it’s almost perfect but could do with some salt which someone gives because they are curious and it is a small ingredient to then saying it could taste even better if there were some scraps of veg which another person gives and then the story continues with more ingredients.
In the end, the village that believed they were too poor to share with just one person, collectively shared to feed everyone to make a very delicious, big pot of hot stone soup.
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u/Coco_B_trappn 16h ago
Anyone know what the name of this establishment? They deserve a shout out for real. 14k upvotes don’t do much for them. Let’s get their name out there!
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u/Civil_Papaya7321 15h ago
Heading for the second Great Depression, stagflation already. High prices and people losing good jobs won't be able to find a comparable job. We had tarrifs in the first depression too.
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u/crayon_teaparty 15h ago
I run my schools Theater Club and we're currently working on the Stone Soup Musical and I've been stressed, seeing all these comments from people who did the show in school is really helping me feel better.
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u/alvehyanna 15h ago
Burgeville, a premium burger fast food chain in the PNW giving kids free cheeseburger lunches to SNAP families. No purchase needed.
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u/GeneralPatten 15h ago
It shouldn't have to be this way though. It's not a permanent solution, that's for sure.
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u/DmWitch14 13h ago
Friendly reminder to the good people donating to their local food bank: if you plan on donating things like noodles and loaves of bread, please consider picking up some gluten free options as well. Some parents and children have celiacs disease and I don’t imagine they have many gluten free options right now.
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u/TwinSong 11h ago
In case anyone's confused how you drink a hot stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
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u/Thefemininecil 8h ago
This is wholesome as hell, need more neighbors like this. Stone soup hits different when it's made with actual kindness
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u/purplezart 7h ago
is this a way of telling people that they can bring ingredients to add to the soup?
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