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.
Does this mean that they started the first batch thousands of years ago with Theseus in it?
Them’s good eatin’. Add some broth, a potato… baby, you got a stew going.
Potatoe and baby soup, not just filling, but nutritious!
I’ve got a Modest Proposal for you.
There’s barely any person left in it these days
There’s a bit of an aftertaste of tar from his ship tho
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?
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.
I know, and that would probably be true after just one year. But would you want from it?
Why wouldn’t I? It’s like saying I won’t drink tap water because that water was once someone’s pee.
If you believe in homeopathy, after it’s diluted it’s even stronger pee.
I mean, yes?
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.
There’s not enough human to be worth eating anymore.