An Pluiméir, you might vary your search by looking under "stone soup" instead of "rock soup."

And while it's definitely the SORT of story Hans Christian Anderson liked to write, this one's been circulating around the countries of Europe a long time and well predates HCA's body of work. To my knowledge, no one's been able to pin down a single author or point of origin.

(Kind of like how variations on Cinderella exist in most European countries simultaneously; which one's "the oldest" is kind of academic.)

Slán,

~Fionn

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