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Fibonacci’s Soup (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Semi-related fun fact: The center of a KitKat is partly made of crushed off-cuts of the previous batch of KitKats. Which begs the question… what was the first KitKat made of?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Continuous soup was a pretty common meal in pre industrial times for poorer people as well as cheap taverns. It's just a pot on a low fire that had various meats, vegetables, herbs, water and sauces added whenever it got low. It kind of sounds delicious

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If my recollection of internet topics isn't failing me (it probably is), there's a pot of soup in like China or something that has been in continuous use for the last several hundred years.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew

A batch of pot-au-feu was claimed by one writer to be maintained as a perpetual stew in Perpignan from the 15th century until World War II, when it ran out of ingredients to keep the stew going due to the German occupation.

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Notable examples include beef and goat noodle soup served by Wattana Panich in Bangkok, Thailand, which has been cooking for over 49 years as of 2024, and oden broth from Otafuku in Asakusa, Japan, which has served the same broth daily since 1945.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I'm disappointed that they didn't call it the Stew of Theseus. 😂

(For anyone who isn't familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Thanks. I forgot to include the wikipedia link where I learned about this.

[–] jettrscga 0 points 5 months ago

This is the last straw. Now I really hate Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

If I remember right, the ingredient that's made from the previous batch is the filling between the wafers. Without that, they could have just mashed up some wafer and chocolate to get something of the right consistency, but I'd bet they just used chocolate instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Supposedly tootsie rolls are also made with the previous day's leftover tootsie-dough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There's also the Shrewsbury Pie Pie. https://youtu.be/zfbhFA7JY_I

[–] Mr_Blott 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pls to explain soup bit thank you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s a joke about “The Fibonacci Sequence”. The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers. It starts with 0 and 1, and every subsequent number is the sum of the two numbers preceding it. So that first 10 terms are as follows:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 33

The image shows an advertisement for “Fibonacci’s Soup”, which doesn’t actually exist. It claims to be made from a combination of the previous two days’ soup batches, in the same way that each number in Fibonacci’s sequence is the sum of the two numbers before it.

[–] Mr_Blott 1 points 5 months ago