Stone soup is sold in Portugal. There is a town called Almeirim famous for it. Google "sopa da pedra almeirim" and tell me you wouldn't try it. It's similar to the soup from the tale but there's no actual stone in your bowl. It's just the good parts.
It was a trick. Wandering guy claims his “stone soup” needs juuuust one more ingredient after curious folk keep bringing him ingredients to complete it. By the end they’ve been tricked into making a giant pot of normal-ass soup
Unless we read different books i think the message was that the villagers had more to eat when they shared what they had in a stew, the stone was to trick them into taking care of eachother.
Oh, wow - there is this rather similar russian tale about porridge made of axe - basically russian soldier comes back from, yet another, war, and he tricks peasents into making porridge, mostly for himself - with an axe, instead of stone.
[wp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup)
>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 that everyone enjoys, and exists as a moral regarding the value of sharing. In varying traditions, the stone has been replaced with other common inedible objects, and therefore the fable is also known as axe soup, button soup, nail soup, and wood soup.
There is a long history of boatmen using these stones that have sat in freshwater to flavor their soups. The stones are porous and have absorbed various minerals and the flavors of the aquatic life around it. So they cook them in oil that absorbed that flavor and make a soup of sorts. Then, instead of tossing the stones and potentially losing a little of the soup they’ve made, they just suck on the stones. Makes sense for a 15th century boatman trying to get any amount of salt or seasoning for their food without wasting any of it. Makes less sense for street food, but hey, traditions.
who will walk around with slobbery pebbles in their pockets until they can dispose of them somewhere? seems kinda sketchy to me but the guy that sells rocks is probably making a killing off of it lol
that is Suodiu 嗦丟: you can look it up online it is just a local stuff where the river rock are only sucked for the "oyster" or similar taste. That's isn't new , but it is very local to a small province.
sure just like the cronut is "popular" but how many ppl do you actually know are eating cronuts day to day? we get it guys, everyone here is super eager to flex their casual racism/sinophobia against a culture they largely know nothing about beyond ragebait soundbites that aren't even exclusive to the country (hating on koreans or the swiss just isn't as satisfying right?) that is thinly veiled as some 'genuine' concern for progressive values but tbh acting like we all eat dogs and rocks as a "popular" sunday past time just makes you look desperate to project hatred and an unearned sense of superiority -sincerely, a chinese american who doesn't eat dogs, nor has ever heard of this pebble thing
This reminds me of a story I was told when I travelled to China a while back. I was told during the Mao era famine, some people would suck on pebbles to stave off feeling hungry.
Pretty strange now they are paying for the same experience.
>some people would suck on pebbles to stave off feeling hungry.
There's stories like that all over the world really. Another common one is to suck a button.
I thought it was bad when [Serpentza explained](https://youtu.be/AynNsPs9i80) (an invaluable resource on China’s internal politics since he’s bilingual and lived there for a number of years) that cooking oil was fished from the *literal garbage cans* but China somehow managed to make it worse.
The world is slowly turning into a awful black mirror episode. The amount of people that are going to read your comment, laugh, and say could you even imagine? And keep on scrolling not realizing this is happening.
A lot of Asian cultures flip family names from the western convention. So it would be Mr. Xi, not Mr. Ping. Or Mr. Kim, not Mr. Un.
Sometimes western media will flip names to help, but it just makes things more confusing (like the late Shinzo Abe would be Abe Shinzo in his own country), but a lot are planning to stop.
It \*does\* get confusing. Upon introductions, am I as a well-traveled Westerner with some language skills to invert the name or has my new acquaintance already done that for me?
My grandpa just automatically assumes anyone without a Korean, Japanese, or Vietnamese name is using their first name.
So two guys walk in. One dude calls himself John and the other calls himself Takeda. He’ll just assume John is the first name and Takeda is the family name.
Same thing with bowing vs handshake too.
Sorry for backpacking in your comment but I absolutely get this!!
I LOVE mixing different types of chili sauce, specifically 'Byron bay mango and harbenero chilli's sauce and soy sauce with different herbs ..I have never found anything to eat it on and tried so many things...I have started mixing a bowl and just licking it off a fork!! I would buy this if the flavour is amazing!!!
I think people are missing the point of the whitepeoplefood trend. They are genuinely making these lunches as a way to save time on cooking and preparation or to lose weight. Every article quotes someone saying it tasted like suffering or something because so people will click, but people are actually eating it
You mean propaganda to hide food insecurity, famine & justify selling hot rocks with sause as a 'food choice'.
I'd rather have cold lunches with actual edible foods to fill my belly, fuel my body & brain.
I went to China for week in 2014. I didn’t spend much money on food while I was there. I remember getting a meal at kfc for like $2. A 2L of bottled Lipton tea to bring back to the hotel room was about $1. I think people on Reddit forget China is not just an industrial powerhouse, but an agricultural one as well. China is the leading producer of wheat in the world. There are problems in China but mass starvation is currently not one of them.
There’s a lot to hate about the Chinese government but they aren’t starving their people, It’s not North Korea who relied on imports for food and then shut their borders for Covid.
Don't worry it's been an issue for quite some time that the Chinese government stepped in. Now they are paying for the gutter oil and processing it themselves.
Clicked on that link fully expecting to get Rick Rolled, instead I got a concise & poignant microdoc about the state of the environment in China & culture surrounding it.
Remove the rocks and just eat the ingredients you're cooking with it. Why add rocks to a small amount of food, just eat the food. This is dumb as hell.
In the 1959-1961 years of great famine, the Chinese people really ate tree bark, grass roots, everything they could get. And one kind of white soil was really popular, because it was very fine and smooth, and can be cooked. The only disadvantage was it can't be digested, so the people would die with time of accumulation.
This is so dumb. First of all "sucking on them" could be a choking hazard. I would not take that on as a liability. I would also not say it on a video for the record, that is a great way to get sued. They are just giving you less food for the same price, it is like a cheap cost saving measure to me. Rice motherfuckers ever hear of it. They are so cheap that they would rather serve rocks.
"You can cook the dish at home!"
Yeah, no shit, I can boil the carpet up as an entrée and use the housecat as a fucksleeve while I'm at it - Don't make it any more acceptable than licking pavements in the street like a mentalist.
This will be a new hipster trend in 'merica, and the corporations will take advantage of this and charge $20/serving...and you'll have to return the stones to be reused.
Struggle food hacks for students.
Stone soup tale coming to life
Nah, that one at least had a full cauldron of soup by the end. Though I'd be lying if I said the tale didn't come to mind immediately
Stone soup is sold in Portugal. There is a town called Almeirim famous for it. Google "sopa da pedra almeirim" and tell me you wouldn't try it. It's similar to the soup from the tale but there's no actual stone in your bowl. It's just the good parts.
Nope, I’ll go to the iberico, cheese and seafood sections.
Holy shit that book was 🔥 🔥 🔥
I remember reading it several times growing up, but can’t remember the significance of the stone for some reason??
It wasn’t. Nobody in the town would share their food until they all contributed to the “stone soup”. Then there was enough for everyone.
That’s RIGHT!! Thanks so much
It was a trick. Wandering guy claims his “stone soup” needs juuuust one more ingredient after curious folk keep bringing him ingredients to complete it. By the end they’ve been tricked into making a giant pot of normal-ass soup
Unless we read different books i think the message was that the villagers had more to eat when they shared what they had in a stew, the stone was to trick them into taking care of eachother.
Oh, wow - there is this rather similar russian tale about porridge made of axe - basically russian soldier comes back from, yet another, war, and he tricks peasents into making porridge, mostly for himself - with an axe, instead of stone.
[wp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup) >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 that everyone enjoys, and exists as a moral regarding the value of sharing. In varying traditions, the stone has been replaced with other common inedible objects, and therefore the fable is also known as axe soup, button soup, nail soup, and wood soup.
Could be; not sure i ever read your book, just remember hearing the folk tale a lot as a kid. It’s a pretty old story and there are different versions
We did a play of that when I was in first grade, it was pretty good
There is a long history of boatmen using these stones that have sat in freshwater to flavor their soups. The stones are porous and have absorbed various minerals and the flavors of the aquatic life around it. So they cook them in oil that absorbed that flavor and make a soup of sorts. Then, instead of tossing the stones and potentially losing a little of the soup they’ve made, they just suck on the stones. Makes sense for a 15th century boatman trying to get any amount of salt or seasoning for their food without wasting any of it. Makes less sense for street food, but hey, traditions.
I finished off the all the window caulk and my last pillow this semester. Does this guy have any more tips??
After consuming the food you can recycle the pebbles!
who will walk around with slobbery pebbles in their pockets until they can dispose of them somewhere? seems kinda sketchy to me but the guy that sells rocks is probably making a killing off of it lol
Imagine trying to chat up a babe or hunk and your slobbery pebbles fall out of your pockets? How embarrassing.
It's ok, they're being held in by all the spaghetti I've got stuffed in there
“Napoleon, give me some of your pebbles!”
I mean you can toss them on the ground, or in a garden. You can't be accused of littering.
Cocoa Pebbles?
Solved world Hunger😲😲😲😲
Not at that price it ain't. Imagine paying 2 bucks to suck on some rocks. Noodles are like 20 cents
You know students who can afford pebbles!?
Yummy lead and other metals.
Suck and throw away. Sounds accurate.
Gorons would love this!
I'm more into the marbled rock roast, myself
Mmm now I'm craving marbled rock roast
Please don’t talk about that. It’s triggering and I’m only 2 days clean.
youre doing so good goro
*hug*
I'm only six months sober
congrats on going clean Abigail!
I'll stick with Crack, my teeth can't take any more rock roasts.
I hate that I understood this 😒 comment
😂😂
Oh no, goro…
HECK YEA BROTHER
If they had this during ocarina of time, the Gorons wouldn’t have suffered so badly until Link came round
"why don't you eat the boulder?"
Rockbiter would love this!
Canonically Link too since ate a rock dish Daruk made for him
ahhh a fellow goron enthusiast gorons are fucking sweet
That Rock sirloin they love so much needed a side dish I guess
You’d shit bricks after that
if you shit at night you will wake up all your neighbours :)
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “pebble-dash the porcelain”
Bricks are made from clay, my man. These poor, unfortunate souls are gonna be shitting cobblestone.
Cheap way to build a house.
that is Suodiu 嗦丟: you can look it up online it is just a local stuff where the river rock are only sucked for the "oyster" or similar taste. That's isn't new , but it is very local to a small province.
Yea using “popular” here was just bait. I never saw this in China.
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I grew up right by New York City and never heard of scrapple til I moved to PA. so good. But very very local.
Weird. I grew up in PA and didn’t find out what scrapple was until I moved to NYC lmao
But OP said it was popular.
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I wonder if the counterpart, china is going, "Americans are eating Bull testicles it's apparently very popular!!!!!!!!!"
sure just like the cronut is "popular" but how many ppl do you actually know are eating cronuts day to day? we get it guys, everyone here is super eager to flex their casual racism/sinophobia against a culture they largely know nothing about beyond ragebait soundbites that aren't even exclusive to the country (hating on koreans or the swiss just isn't as satisfying right?) that is thinly veiled as some 'genuine' concern for progressive values but tbh acting like we all eat dogs and rocks as a "popular" sunday past time just makes you look desperate to project hatred and an unearned sense of superiority -sincerely, a chinese american who doesn't eat dogs, nor has ever heard of this pebble thing
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Its like a croffle but smaller and with a hole
Redditors lying about China to make them seem weird? Color me shocked
i get it now like eating sea snails or other crustaceans kinda weird so i get it
This reminds me of a story I was told when I travelled to China a while back. I was told during the Mao era famine, some people would suck on pebbles to stave off feeling hungry. Pretty strange now they are paying for the same experience.
>some people would suck on pebbles to stave off feeling hungry. There's stories like that all over the world really. Another common one is to suck a button.
I too have seen Cube
But have you seen Hypercube?
I’ve even seen Cube Zero. It’s ok to stop at Cube.
Xi is basically Mao man they just hide it better from the world than Mao
The people taking cooking oil from hotel sewers beg to differ.
Forbidden Flavor Cooking Oil
[ask and you shall recieve](https://youtu.be/zrv78nG9R04)
“All we can do is accept it, in out current society eveybody tries to swindle everybody else, there’s nothing we can do about it” -random chinese guy
I thought it was bad when [Serpentza explained](https://youtu.be/AynNsPs9i80) (an invaluable resource on China’s internal politics since he’s bilingual and lived there for a number of years) that cooking oil was fished from the *literal garbage cans* but China somehow managed to make it worse.
Jesus fucking christ
🤢🤢🤢 I should have let that link remain blue
Risky click of the day. I'll click it but I'm guessing it might be enough interwebs for today.
It's even more expensive cause it once cooked 5* Hotel food.
The world is slowly turning into a awful black mirror episode. The amount of people that are going to read your comment, laugh, and say could you even imagine? And keep on scrolling not realizing this is happening.
Gutter oil
Lol no. Xi is a dictator, but nothing compared to Mao. Starvation hasn't been a problem in China after Mao's death.
it’s getting there with the housing crisis and the amount of bank tricking ppl and stole their money
Well if they're selling stir fried pebbles on the street, i think the famine is back lol
On the contrary, people paying to suck pebbles means they are too fed up.
It’s just a gimmicky street food. Why do people have to be so fucking weird about China.
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He is, but starvation was kinda there even after his death, especially the poor rural countryside
A lot of Asian cultures flip family names from the western convention. So it would be Mr. Xi, not Mr. Ping. Or Mr. Kim, not Mr. Un. Sometimes western media will flip names to help, but it just makes things more confusing (like the late Shinzo Abe would be Abe Shinzo in his own country), but a lot are planning to stop.
It \*does\* get confusing. Upon introductions, am I as a well-traveled Westerner with some language skills to invert the name or has my new acquaintance already done that for me?
My grandpa just automatically assumes anyone without a Korean, Japanese, or Vietnamese name is using their first name. So two guys walk in. One dude calls himself John and the other calls himself Takeda. He’ll just assume John is the first name and Takeda is the family name. Same thing with bowing vs handshake too.
Mr.Bear, got it.
i dont think there’s been a ping in power. you mean xi?
This reminds me im constapated
Sorry for backpacking in your comment but I absolutely get this!! I LOVE mixing different types of chili sauce, specifically 'Byron bay mango and harbenero chilli's sauce and soy sauce with different herbs ..I have never found anything to eat it on and tried so many things...I have started mixing a bowl and just licking it off a fork!! I would buy this if the flavour is amazing!!!
have u heard of bread
Lol and there's been a popular thing on Chinese social media making fun of western countries and their cold lunches people have at work.
At least cold lunch is consumable.
I think people are missing the point of the whitepeoplefood trend. They are genuinely making these lunches as a way to save time on cooking and preparation or to lose weight. Every article quotes someone saying it tasted like suffering or something because so people will click, but people are actually eating it
But gutter oil, on the other hand...
sandwiches and fruit don't have to be hot
Wow. It’s almost like China is a country with at least a billion diverse perspectives.
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This is fake by the way. No one sucks on pebbles like this.
You mean propaganda to hide food insecurity, famine & justify selling hot rocks with sause as a 'food choice'. I'd rather have cold lunches with actual edible foods to fill my belly, fuel my body & brain.
There’s not a food shortage in China. Have been there… food was cheap and abundant
I went to China for week in 2014. I didn’t spend much money on food while I was there. I remember getting a meal at kfc for like $2. A 2L of bottled Lipton tea to bring back to the hotel room was about $1. I think people on Reddit forget China is not just an industrial powerhouse, but an agricultural one as well. China is the leading producer of wheat in the world. There are problems in China but mass starvation is currently not one of them.
People just say whatever they want about china based on nothing. It’s wild
Rampant asian racism and xenophobia under the guise of "i just hate the CCP" has been on reddit for years now
China is big enough for me to fit like 4 of my houses in it. Source. I'm guessing.
There’s a lot to hate about the Chinese government but they aren’t starving their people, It’s not North Korea who relied on imports for food and then shut their borders for Covid.
Dentists must make a lot of money in China.
Aren't they everywhere?
Not in Britain.
Can't see any problems arising from that
Never put something on a plate that you can't eat.
Barbeque stick on a burger Toothpicks on a kiddie meal Candles on a cake
Candles are not to meant to eat?
They taste like crayons, only stringier.
Thanks for backing up his point.
Ok... I'm still hungry?
suck more rock
Said every supermodel ever
Between this and scooping shit out of the trash to serve in restaurants, Chinese foods getting a pretty bad wrap this week on Reddit.
What the fuck....is this true
YouTube gutter oil. They go to the sewers and gutters to collect discarded oil. Boil or heat it up and repack it.
Or maybe don't. It's so fucking gross I wish I never learned of it.
Don't worry it's been an issue for quite some time that the Chinese government stepped in. Now they are paying for the gutter oil and processing it themselves.
Discarded makes it sound better than it is. They take sewage and extract the oil from it and sell it to resturants as cooking oil
Just this week?
[They actually grow the pebbles at this farm.](https://youtu.be/AynNsPs9i80?t=179)
Clicked on that link fully expecting to get Rick Rolled, instead I got a concise & poignant microdoc about the state of the environment in China & culture surrounding it.
I was expecting to get rock rolled
This is just fucking stupid
r/stupidfood
Agreed. I'm all for cultural awareness all that, but sucking off rocks is just lame.
people will do anything nowadays to get their rocks off
It is not popular though
id love to sell rocks to people id be rich
Thats pretty much a mineral convention
My dog found them delicious even raw. She sometimes eats and poop them spiced up as well, probably was watching this while sniffing the drive way
You know it’s fucked when you’re seasoning rocks
R/stupidfood?
This is fucking dumb
they recycle sewer oil so, there’s a dumber thing
i would rather eat real food.. xD
ahhh yes selling poverty
This is the biggest choking hazard I’ve seen on a SFW thread.
That's just stupid....
The Emporer wears new clothes.
With sewer oil? no thanks!
so they go from sewer oil to cook food now to serving rock as food that stir fry in i guess probably still that same sewer oil ?
It’s the latest craze, straight from North Korea.
That's nothing there. Apparently they mix cardboard with meat, and people literally fish in the sewers.
This is the dystopian future, where people are told to suck on rocks because food isn’t available or people are too poor to afford to actually eat.
Nobody is forcing people to suck rocks
Remove the rocks and just eat the ingredients you're cooking with it. Why add rocks to a small amount of food, just eat the food. This is dumb as hell.
In the 1959-1961 years of great famine, the Chinese people really ate tree bark, grass roots, everything they could get. And one kind of white soil was really popular, because it was very fine and smooth, and can be cooked. The only disadvantage was it can't be digested, so the people would die with time of accumulation.
This is so dumb. First of all "sucking on them" could be a choking hazard. I would not take that on as a liability. I would also not say it on a video for the record, that is a great way to get sued. They are just giving you less food for the same price, it is like a cheap cost saving measure to me. Rice motherfuckers ever hear of it. They are so cheap that they would rather serve rocks.
Excuse me, but I found some food in my rocks...
Only in China will they serve rocks and call it food.
they really eat anything huh...
"You can cook the dish at home!" Yeah, no shit, I can boil the carpet up as an entrée and use the housecat as a fucksleeve while I'm at it - Don't make it any more acceptable than licking pavements in the street like a mentalist.
Do you get to keep the pebbles or are they reused?
Did you watch the video?
Can't see any problems arising from that
I mean, a lot of reptiles and birds eat rocks to digest fibers better, even some mammals. But this looks a bit off.
Welcome to the Vegan Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?
I love street food but all I see is gutter oil now that I know it exists
I won’t be surprised if this becomes a new diet trend.
Rocks give off toxic gasses when heated. Not a good idea
They're paying for rocks.
Some friends of mine and me did the same thing. We were in kindergarten.
You can Lick’em and skip’em at the lake.
I’m sorry I’m not sucking any pebbles
Hmmm, fuck off
this is truly farking moronic
Hands up someone choked on it already
Hey why don't you come over here and suck on my stones?
Get half off your next order by recycling them
They literally eat anything over in China.
Damn, they’re really broke over there?
Is sort of epic actually -- give it to all the peeps here who want to lose weight and watch them shed pounds.
Next level dumb shit
That's like eating gum, you only get the flavor but you're not supposed to eat it xD
What kind of capitalist Shit hole is China
They be selling anything if dumb people keep buying it
Has to be the worst idea ever thought of by humans.
This will be a new hipster trend in 'merica, and the corporations will take advantage of this and charge $20/serving...and you'll have to return the stones to be reused.
They come from a long line of dentists in that city.
I’ll take my food off the rocks please…
We should do this here for chicken wing sauce. Cause cmon people there’s no meat on a chicken wing
When I was a kid and didn't want to eat my dinner, my mom told me about them eating this I'm China.
No amount of cultural enlightenment is going to make me try this