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I looked for it before and reached the same conclusion -- it is just a made-up story.

• Stratoscope 7y ago
  These are the same pots they boil the frogs in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
  • throes_death 7y ago
    and cook the soup in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
    • alexanderdmitri 7y ago
      having turned to boiling the stone after exhausting all their methods of drawing blood from it https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/blood_from_a_stone https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/blood_from_a_stone