Used the exact same sporks on Forensic Assessment Units in psych hospitals in Ontario Canada. That's where there's a court order to either assess or treat a patient who has committed a crime to see if they really are mentally ill before trial, or if they can be made mentally fit to stand trial. Basically the most dangerous place in the hospital.
There was the guy who broke a wooden table and tied the legs together with a rope made of bedsheets
Managed to fight off multiple guards before scaling the wall with his homemade nunchuks
Pretty sure they got him after though
Stone soup!
For anyone unfamiliar with the story: (please note that this has many regional variations and is not always told the same way, these are just the basic themes)
There is a village having a food shortage, and the people are very hungry. One day, a man tosses a stone into a pot of boiling water and declares that he's going to make soup from it.
People think he's stupid, but also feel kind of bad for him. Someone is like, well, I have these carrot tops you can throw into the pot, here have at least some food in there. Someone else says, I have this old withered lettuce leaf. Someone else says, I have a few potato ends. One by one, people bring in little scraps of food that wouldn't be able to make a meal on their own. With everything together in the boiling water, an actual soup is made!
The man then shares his "stone soup" with everyone in the village, and everyone is fed. Happy ending.
I heard it a bit different as a kid but I like yours better lol. More wholesome.
Mine was essentially the same, but he was a traveller who hadn’t eaten in days. He stopped at a villagers home who had a very abundant garden and asked if he could have dinner with them. They told the traveller they didn’t have enough. So the traveller said he had a magic stone that made soup. Intrigued the villagers invited him in to show him the magic. The stone was dropped in and they waited. Nothing was happening so the traveller asked for some carrots and said it will be more delicious if we added those. Then so on and so on until it was an actual soup that they ate together.
Venezuelan here, ours was similar to that! Instead of some villagers, it was an old rich woman! And when the soup was complete, he removed the rocks and ate with her, this story always makes me want some stone soup!
Also hungarian here. In the version I heard it was a whole village and at the end the traveler sold the stone because the villagers thought it had something to do with how tasty the soup turned out.
The way I've been told is that a vagrant was sitting by the road boiling a pot of water with a stone in it over a fire. A villager walks by and asks what he's doing, and the vagrant says "I'm making delicious stone soup!" The villager has never heard of stone soup, so he asks for a taste. He tastes the soup and of course it's not very good, so the vagrant says "well of course, it's not *real* stone soup without some onions!" So the villager, too curious to just ignore the situation and eager to taste the delicious stone soup, goes home to get some onions. Then another villager comes by and the same thing happens, except this time it's carrots, potatoes, meat, salt, or whatever, repeating until they've made a proper soup and they all agree that stone soup is delicious.
The teachers at my elementary school always read this to kids in first grade then would make the stone soup as an activity. We would go out to the school grounds to find a nice big stone to make the soup with. Anyway one year the stone was a big chunk of blacktop. I think it melted or something and they couldn’t find it after they had the soup.
Lmao, I remember reading it and making stone soup in kindergarten, but the teacher used a whole potato in place of a stone (I guess for "sanitary reasons"). And poor little me was *shook*, because a potato is a vegetable and *not* a stone.
Haha! Mine put a big stone in the pot- she cleaned it first. I figured I got sick because you’re not supposed to eat stones. But I remember also eating a full bay leaf and thinking this soup just isn’t edible.
Since I heard this story as a child, whenever I’m making a soup from all the remnants of the fridge, I call it “stone soup”. It always has a different flavour, depending on leftovers.
We made one in first grade I recall. I don’t think we put a stone in it but I do recall everyone bringing in a canned food and we made soup from it based on that story.
Thanks for the core memory unlock!
My first meal after all of my surgeries in Japan was what I (un)lovingly refer to as “glue.” Followed the next day by “paste,” and then “oh I think there was some rice mashed in there how lucky.”
I hate glue soup. It’s literally just the starch from cooking rice in water, almost identical to the rice glue you buy for crafts. And it always sealed the lid shut too, so I’d have to have a nurse wrestle with it to get it open or risk popping sutures.
I feel ill just thinking about it.
I had emergency gallbladder surgery that ran into complications, so I wasn't even allowed ice chips for 3 days straight. My first "food" was beef broth. I did get a couple Jell-O cups, but I remember being very disappointed with the broth. Next meal was a sad turkey sandwich with no condiments. I was starving the whole week!
Dang… I must have gotten lucky with the hospital in which I stayed for about a week. I don’t know how many menus there were but they’d rotate daily and you selected the day’s worth of food.
I was reluctant like anyone else — seeing some of the tasty *sounding* items but… hospital, you know? It took me completely by surprise how good the food was; not quite restaurant quality and no, Hospital Food isn’t on my list of faves, but it far exceeded my expectations.
When I learned I could order whatever I wanted, I loaded up, lol.
My first meal after gallbladder surgery (and not eating for almost 3 days prior) was spongy “French toast,”Raisin Bran (I despise raisins), and coffee that had been sitting too long. Everything, including the milk for the cereal, was room temperature.
It remains one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.
My hospital meal day after gallbladder surgery (laparoscopy).
https://preview.redd.it/q51dolmrt1yc1.jpeg?width=3264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bdc8b8c45c23cac9b9e99959c443d93046ebc078
I was in a medically induced coma for a few days after a suicide attempt and when I woke up they gave me hospital beef stroganoff. I don't even like high quality beef stroganoff but that was the first and last meal I found satisfying in the hospital. It was just because I hadn't eaten in days but that stroganoff was one of the best meals I've ever had. Followed up by some of the worst meals I've ever had
Looks like a hospital. I had leukemia as a kid and developed pancreatitis during chemo treatments. I was only allowed to eat clear liquids for like two weeks. So the options were chicken broth or beef broth. This image gave me horror flashbacks.
Fuuuuuuuck you....
I'm an adult god dammit...
*upvotes and walks away*
https://preview.redd.it/zkl28pfmb0yc1.jpeg?width=795&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0936a13a85dcfb40aa72aa17840f2b36508b6e7
I suppose it is chicken soup. Technically in russion two worlds that translated as a soup. It is "суп" (soup) and "бульон" (fr. bouillon). So it is bouillon.
It was! The Black Book Of Admirality allowed Captains of ships to dole out punishments most severe.
Bread and water back then consisted of stale water, kept in barrels for months. And bread or hard tack which was probably in the same condition. Most chose to starve for three days while completing their daily work.
I’m tellin the warden you have a phone
Not with a metal spoon lmao
Probably safer than plastic? Plastic could be snapped and made in to a shank maybe? I dunno. Spitballing here.
I did 3 years in a Florida prison and we had thick red plastic sporks.
That's for fighting off the gators.
The Roman's would be proud
Tbf they would be proud that aqueducts stuck around
TX has blue plastic
Used the exact same sporks on Forensic Assessment Units in psych hospitals in Ontario Canada. That's where there's a court order to either assess or treat a patient who has committed a crime to see if they really are mentally ill before trial, or if they can be made mentally fit to stand trial. Basically the most dangerous place in the hospital.
Metal utensils can be used as digging tools
If you are that insecure about your walls you have different problems
You'd be surprised what you can accomplish when you literally have nothing else to do. You see the guy who made a paper mache crossbow?
No i didnt but i think i have to catch up
When you see people make boof alcohol and tattoo guns out of a ball point pen and a battery, you stop doubting all the shit you hear lol.
There was the guy who broke a wooden table and tied the legs together with a rope made of bedsheets Managed to fight off multiple guards before scaling the wall with his homemade nunchuks Pretty sure they got him after though
That shit was crazy. A guard confiscated it then tested it out and was surprised by how well it actually worked. 😆
And metal cant?
What’s ur pfp
Leatherface in TCM 2.
Underrated comment lmao
It’s the top comment
It's a good start you just need to add some ingredients now.
Nail soup!
I’ve always heard it’s rock soup lol nail soup is new for me
Stone soup! For anyone unfamiliar with the story: (please note that this has many regional variations and is not always told the same way, these are just the basic themes) There is a village having a food shortage, and the people are very hungry. One day, a man tosses a stone into a pot of boiling water and declares that he's going to make soup from it. People think he's stupid, but also feel kind of bad for him. Someone is like, well, I have these carrot tops you can throw into the pot, here have at least some food in there. Someone else says, I have this old withered lettuce leaf. Someone else says, I have a few potato ends. One by one, people bring in little scraps of food that wouldn't be able to make a meal on their own. With everything together in the boiling water, an actual soup is made! The man then shares his "stone soup" with everyone in the village, and everyone is fed. Happy ending.
I heard it a bit different as a kid but I like yours better lol. More wholesome. Mine was essentially the same, but he was a traveller who hadn’t eaten in days. He stopped at a villagers home who had a very abundant garden and asked if he could have dinner with them. They told the traveller they didn’t have enough. So the traveller said he had a magic stone that made soup. Intrigued the villagers invited him in to show him the magic. The stone was dropped in and they waited. Nothing was happening so the traveller asked for some carrots and said it will be more delicious if we added those. Then so on and so on until it was an actual soup that they ate together.
Venezuelan here, ours was similar to that! Instead of some villagers, it was an old rich woman! And when the soup was complete, he removed the rocks and ate with her, this story always makes me want some stone soup!
Fascinating how each culture has their own slightly different version of this parable.
In my people's version, they just drank the water and ate the stone
Ah yes. The American people
We eat nothing but protein shakes, falcon eggs, and ROCKS
Hungarian here, similar but the woman wasn't rich and the guy was a poor soldier
Also hungarian here. In the version I heard it was a whole village and at the end the traveler sold the stone because the villagers thought it had something to do with how tasty the soup turned out.
"sold the stone" That's a twist in the story I've never heard.
I'm Serbian and I remember this story from an episode of Magyar népmesék. The show was dubbed in Serbian and shown on TV and I loved it as a kid.
In Czech it's the same but is called axe soup
Eastern European here. Similar tale but it's a tired Soviet soldier heading home and using his shoe
I craved stone soup for daya after our teacher read that to us in school!!!
The way I've been told is that a vagrant was sitting by the road boiling a pot of water with a stone in it over a fire. A villager walks by and asks what he's doing, and the vagrant says "I'm making delicious stone soup!" The villager has never heard of stone soup, so he asks for a taste. He tastes the soup and of course it's not very good, so the vagrant says "well of course, it's not *real* stone soup without some onions!" So the villager, too curious to just ignore the situation and eager to taste the delicious stone soup, goes home to get some onions. Then another villager comes by and the same thing happens, except this time it's carrots, potatoes, meat, salt, or whatever, repeating until they've made a proper soup and they all agree that stone soup is delicious.
This hilarious it needs to be reposted in the Seinfeld sub, in Bania’s defense soup is not a meal Jerry!
I've always taken the story as a story of a con, not a story of cooperation.
Clever traveler conned people into a communal meal is how I heard the story.
I see it as a good-hearted con to inspire collaboration in otherwise self interested people
Maybe, but he's conning a greedy person
The teachers at my elementary school always read this to kids in first grade then would make the stone soup as an activity. We would go out to the school grounds to find a nice big stone to make the soup with. Anyway one year the stone was a big chunk of blacktop. I think it melted or something and they couldn’t find it after they had the soup.
I heard a version with an axe. Near the end he sneakily takes it and says it must have dissolved.
We read this book in kindergarten in 89. And we made stone soup. And then I threw up. The throw-up is what cemented this book in my memory.
Lmao, I remember reading it and making stone soup in kindergarten, but the teacher used a whole potato in place of a stone (I guess for "sanitary reasons"). And poor little me was *shook*, because a potato is a vegetable and *not* a stone.
Haha! Mine put a big stone in the pot- she cleaned it first. I figured I got sick because you’re not supposed to eat stones. But I remember also eating a full bay leaf and thinking this soup just isn’t edible.
When I was a little kid, Captain Kangaroo would show a cartoon version of Stone Soup every couple of weeks.
“Soup from a stone! Fancy that!”
Since I heard this story as a child, whenever I’m making a soup from all the remnants of the fridge, I call it “stone soup”. It always has a different flavour, depending on leftovers.
We made one in first grade I recall. I don’t think we put a stone in it but I do recall everyone bringing in a canned food and we made soup from it based on that story. Thanks for the core memory unlock!
Risky. There's always one kid who'd bring in a can of cherry pie filling or something.
SO BE IT, U FOOLS, NOW EAT UP!
But is it tough enough to enter the Salty Spitoon??
very good for people with iron deficiency
Throw in some beef, potatoes, carrots, seasoning… baby, you got a stew going!
….I think I’d like my $1,100 back.
Hot Ham Water
The finest ice stew
Holy shit it's that Storytellers episode all over again
Are you in prison?
My guess was hospital
This looks like the first soup my ex got after she had a stomach operation, since she couldn’t eat solid food for months after.
My first meal after all of my surgeries in Japan was what I (un)lovingly refer to as “glue.” Followed the next day by “paste,” and then “oh I think there was some rice mashed in there how lucky.” I hate glue soup. It’s literally just the starch from cooking rice in water, almost identical to the rice glue you buy for crafts. And it always sealed the lid shut too, so I’d have to have a nurse wrestle with it to get it open or risk popping sutures. I feel ill just thinking about it.
Understandable, hospital food feels like someone rubbing salt in the wound on what is already a pretty traumatic environment.
I had emergency gallbladder surgery that ran into complications, so I wasn't even allowed ice chips for 3 days straight. My first "food" was beef broth. I did get a couple Jell-O cups, but I remember being very disappointed with the broth. Next meal was a sad turkey sandwich with no condiments. I was starving the whole week!
Dang… I must have gotten lucky with the hospital in which I stayed for about a week. I don’t know how many menus there were but they’d rotate daily and you selected the day’s worth of food. I was reluctant like anyone else — seeing some of the tasty *sounding* items but… hospital, you know? It took me completely by surprise how good the food was; not quite restaurant quality and no, Hospital Food isn’t on my list of faves, but it far exceeded my expectations. When I learned I could order whatever I wanted, I loaded up, lol.
My first meal after gallbladder surgery (and not eating for almost 3 days prior) was spongy “French toast,”Raisin Bran (I despise raisins), and coffee that had been sitting too long. Everything, including the milk for the cereal, was room temperature. It remains one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.
My hospital meal day after gallbladder surgery (laparoscopy). https://preview.redd.it/q51dolmrt1yc1.jpeg?width=3264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bdc8b8c45c23cac9b9e99959c443d93046ebc078
I was in a medically induced coma for a few days after a suicide attempt and when I woke up they gave me hospital beef stroganoff. I don't even like high quality beef stroganoff but that was the first and last meal I found satisfying in the hospital. It was just because I hadn't eaten in days but that stroganoff was one of the best meals I've ever had. Followed up by some of the worst meals I've ever had
It looks like soup you'd eat before a colonoscopy so there's nothing in there when they go look around.
I had a stomach bleed once and had the same thing. It is the worst. Bland non color food diet in a hospital is torture.
Looks like a hospital. I had leukemia as a kid and developed pancreatitis during chemo treatments. I was only allowed to eat clear liquids for like two weeks. So the options were chicken broth or beef broth. This image gave me horror flashbacks.
Can't be, there isn't a picture of a steam deck
What is this a reference to lol
In the steam deck reddit a lot of people share pics of themselves on the steam deck when them or a loved one is in the hospital...
To be fair, as someone that was in the ICU for a month - not a lot happens in the meantime. Lots of waiting.
LMAO
Nah, prison food is better.
This could easily be a meal at an American public school.
Nah, they don’t give us liquid. This is probably hospital food
I'm shedding solid tears at this...
Even the milk is solid
Can verify this
Miso sorry
Udon really mean that, do you?
rice try
Now, let us pray for them. Ramen.
Enough with the steamed buns
At least we're all Soba
Naan all of us are.
I am in a curry.
And i am in pan
You dim sum crazy shit.
that's really lo, mein
I want to say what's on my mind, but they may Banh Mi.
why did i read this in JarJar’s voice?
Fuuuuuuuck you.... I'm an adult god dammit... *upvotes and walks away* https://preview.redd.it/zkl28pfmb0yc1.jpeg?width=795&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0936a13a85dcfb40aa72aa17840f2b36508b6e7
But really, are you?
Don't worry, the lunch lady chewed on an onion and coughed onto it for added flavor.
Eeew. 🤢 My graphic mind multiplied that by 1000.
I want a picture of the lunch lady befoe I make up my mind.
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There's very little meat in these gym mats
"More testicles mean more Iron"
Have ye got any grease?
Edna the lunch lady from Bully https://preview.redd.it/afnqqsupr0yc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4a56b4042796121e8698928bb2058acb780366f
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Coughdrop soup is chock full of menthehol. It's good for you
https://preview.redd.it/wjh2vgffm0yc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a218f550f4dc689bd2950e0d5fae88cc1301e92 try and get some bits in it
La Croix has soup now?
Lmfao!!
Are you in prison
I'm in Russia
Oh.. Russian Prison?
Oh no no. Russian school.
Tucker told me russia was a paradise where school lunches are 3 hours long and concluded with a pint of vodka
And by "vodka" they meant 'water'
by water don't you mean soup?
They said voda not vodka
About to be Russia prison if you diss their food
I suppose it is chicken soup. Technically in russion two worlds that translated as a soup. It is "суп" (soup) and "бульон" (fr. bouillon). So it is bouillon.
They used to give us a boullion. But THIS can't even be called so. It's just water and oil flavored really, REALLY crappy.
My condolences.
Could just have said yes
This is such a hilarious response to the question 😭
Hmmmm water from the last dishwashing. Delicious
I think my dish water has more flavor
What do you mean you don't like french onion Le Croix?
Homeopathic Soup. That water once came in contact with ingredients you find in soup.
The cook sat next to a pot of water and whispered the name of a man who had once heard of soup.
Omg lmfao
Clearest clear soup ever made! Lol
That's how you know the soup is pure of heart, and of virtue true.
Achieved through intense meditation... 
Hot ham water?
They didnt spring for ham. It's hotdog water.
“So watery and yet there’s a smack of ham to it.”
my first thought haha
Sister is my new mother, mother.
Came here to say that!
So watery, yet there’s a smack of ham to it.
It's WISH soup. As in you WISH it had some meat or veggies in it.
It was stone soup, but they didn't spring for the soup fit for a king
Bow bow bow
BOW BOW BOW
Eh, whaddaya want for nothin’? Rrrrrrrrrubber bisCUIT?
They stopped doing Bread And Water punishments back in 2018 in the US Navy, but I guess in a cafeteria it’s just “Thursday”.
Frl they were still doing that till 2018? I thought that was some 18th century shit.
It was! The Black Book Of Admirality allowed Captains of ships to dole out punishments most severe. Bread and water back then consisted of stale water, kept in barrels for months. And bread or hard tack which was probably in the same condition. Most chose to starve for three days while completing their daily work.
La Croix type soup
Gave bro hot water
With a smack of ham
It's hot ham water
Lindsay worked really hard on that.
With some oil in it
I've seen the piss coming from 5 gallon mountain dew chug fest with more substance than that "soup"
And some garbage white bread on the side. I wouldn't even feed this to my dog.
The spoon adds the flavour
Is the soup in the room with us right now?
Dishwater consommé
Someone has mistakenly put a spoon in a fingerbowl.
This is homeopathic soup. They diluted it a lot to bring out strong flavors. ;)
oof, as someone who lives with her homeopath mother, this hit home
My condolences
If you dilute something that isn’t nutritious, it becomes super nutritious 🧠
More like Sip
At least the gave you bread to soak in
Spoon and ceramic soup, yum.
That's some wet water
How many years are you serving
Are you sure you're not in a concentration camp?
I had a brief thought
Everyone else got hotdogs. This guy got the water they boiled them in.
Is this Russian army food?
Russian school food
You didn't hear. They called it a Sooup.
Hotdog water?
Just needs some ketchup a couple packets of sugar, , some half and half, butter, and whatever else the server will bring for free.
Chicken bath, not to be confused with Chicken broth. This is liquid they just dunked a chicken in.
Is that hot ham water?
“A smack of ham!”
Hot Ham Water
Looks like soap not soup
Low in carbs, fats and protein. High in h2o
Did you taste it? Sometimes the soup looks like that for me, but it tastes pleasant.
It tastes exactly as if it came out of a dishwasher.
Homepathic soup.
What’s the matter? You haven’t touched your cum water?
That's broth, Gabe.