time flies -

[baddad]

Can't believe it's a WHOLE YEAR since i told Delia off for buying a ready made pancake mix!!

 

'Just add egg and milk' (... so...erm... that's a packet of buckwheat flour at twice the normal selling price then, eh?)

Still, she works so hard the resty of the year round she deserves an annual treat

 

L&P

BD

[something vague]

Can't believe it's a WHOLE YEAR since i told Delia off for buying a ready made pancake mix!!

 

'Just add egg and milk' (... so...erm... that's a packet of buckwheat flour at twice the normal selling price then, eh?)

Still, she works so hard the resty of the year round she deserves an annual treat

 

L&P

BD

 

 

Puts me in mind of stone soup, I used to love that story

 

SV

[call me jaded]

Ooooh a thread all about MEEEEE how luvely.

 

I force-fed my mother gfcf pancake last night and she couldn't tell the difference. S'only taken four years to get this good.

[call me jaded]

What's stone soup?

[Zemanski]

It's the oldest recipe in the world. Mentioned in prehistoric folk tales from Europe, India, Africa and China (and possibly elsewhere)

A (not very good) retelling of the story:

The Story of Stone Soup

 

Once upon a time, somewhere in post-war Eastern Europe, there was a great famine in which people jealously hoarded whatever food they could find, hiding it even from their friends and neighbors. One day a wandering soldier came into a village and began asking questions as if he planned to stay for the night.

 

"There's not a bite to eat in the whole province," he was told. "Better keep moving on."

 

"Oh, I have everything I need," he said. "In fact, I was thinking of making some stone soup to share with all of you." He pulled an iron cauldron from his wagon, filled it with water, and built a fire under it. Then, with great ceremony, he drew an ordinary-looking stone from a velvet bag and dropped it into the water.

 

By now, hearing the rumor of food, most of the villagers had come to the square or watched from their windows. As the soldier sniffed the "broth" and licked his lips in anticipation, hunger began to overcome their skepticism.

 

"Ahh," the soldier said to himself rather loudly, "I do like a tasty stone soup. Of course, stone soup with cabbage -- that's hard to beat."

 

Soon a villager approached hesitantly, holding a cabbage he'd retrieved from its hiding place, and added it to the pot. "Capital!" cried the soldier. "You know, I once had stone soup with cabbage and a bit of salt beef as well, and it was fit for a king."

 

The village butcher managed to find some salt beef . . . and so it went, through potatoes, onions, carrots, mushrooms, and so on, until there was indeed a delicious meal for all. The villagers offered the soldier a great deal of money for the magic stone, but he refused to sell and traveled on the next day.

The moral is that by working together, with everyone contributing what they can, a greater good is achieved.

 

The moral used to be to teach children to see through conmen, but with advertising running our culture, a new one had to be found.

[Tilly]

I'd never heard of that story before, thoroughly enjoyed it . Thanks Zemanski.

 

Now my personal challenge is to bring that story into the conversation by the end of the week.!

 

Tilly

[microsoft_admin]

it flows actually time could be considerd a ripple in space that is nither wave nor radiation the nature of time has long iluded scientists across the globe but they are starting to agree that time is an omidirectional ripple in the fabric of space