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I know the interpretation 'stone soup' you use, however there are other parts of the world that know it in a different story, i'll tell it here. When the engli
by ungamedplayer 4y ago
I know the interpretation 'stone soup' you use, however there are other parts of the world that know it in a different story, i'll tell it here.
When the english first attempted to colonize australia to Australia, an englishman noticed a native 'bush turkey' was not regularly eaten by the local native aboriginals. The englishman had tried to cook and eat them, but it ended up anything but tastey.
He asked one of the tribal elders the secret to eating them, the elder responded.
"You put a stone into the pot, you bring it to boil When its boiling you throw in the plucked bush turkey, you eat it when the stone is soft."
The lesson I take from this is "sometimes things are just going to be bad, you just gotta accept that and move on".
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoI’m not sure I understand your anecdote. I had actually never heard of “stone soup” by grandparent but I found it in Wikipedia as this story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup My interpretation of grandparent as applied onto that story was that some of their colleagues had some local solutions that were part of the puzzle and OP purposefully created some ancillary solution (the “stone soup”) to get them to contribute to the bigger picture. But perhaps I’m seeing this entirely wrong?
- curryberto 4y agoThe stone will never become soft in the soup - the bird will never be ready to eat.
- gorgoiler 4y agoYou got it, and thanks for replying! I added a ps to my original comment, to elaborate.