A perpetual stew, also known as forever soup, hunter’s pot, or hunter’s stew, is a pot into which foodstuffs are placed and cooked, continuously. The pot is never or rarely emptied all the way, and ingredients and liquid are replenished as necessary. Such foods can continue cooking for decades or longer if properly maintained. The concept is often a common element in descriptions of medieval inns.

Foods prepared in a perpetual stew have been described as being flavorful due to the manner in which the ingredients blend together. Various ingredients can be used in a perpetual stew such as root vegetables, tubers (potatoes, yams, etc.), and various meats.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      Does this mean that they started the first batch thousands of years ago with Theseus in it?

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        If they boiled a human alive 2000 years ago and then kept dumping out half and filling it back up with broth, veggies and beef every day, would you eat it today?

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          I assure you, there would not be a single atom of that human left in the soup.

          Let’s assume dumping half the soup every day for 2000 years. That’s 2000*365 = 730,000 times you’re halving the soup. Assume a human that weighs 70 kg. After the 2000 years, there’d be 70 / 2^730,000 kg left. That’s 0.000… insert roughly 220,000 zeros …0009 kg. I.e. 0, for all intents and purposes. There’d be nothing from that person left in the pot.

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          Only if you bang on the pot to make the water in the soup remember the human essence so eating it gives me invincibility against anything vaguely resembling being man-made.

          Walgreens could make bank selling that.

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          4 days ago

          you can neither stop me nor even tell if i’ve done it 😼

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            4 days ago

            What’s doing on here? I came because I sensed a disturbance in the Web

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              puts hands over suspiciously screenshot shaped tummy

              …nothing 👀

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            4 days ago

            Why would someone downvote this person? I guess there’s people who are mean for no good reason everywhere…

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              yep i made the mistake of conversing with the wrong person in a politics thread and now i’m watching them go through my profile and systematically downvote everything latest to earliest 😅 you would think we are all grown adults on here but many such cases