Food Theory: ROCKS Will Be Your New Favorite Food!

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Welcome to the Internet where you can find fun trends like dance videos, Grimace Shakes, and… stir-fried stones?! Yes, street vendors in China are actually selling rocks to customers, and they’re eating it up! But why? WHY would you eat a rock? And better yet, where do trends like these come from and should we continue to do them?
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[kingcoveryepic]

Bold of him to assume I don’t already consume rocks on a basis.

[elliotpayton]

Food theory:

How many substitutions can you do in a recipe before it no longer makes the dish? Especially with baked goods.

[trinitysxxi]

There's a rock soup here in Mexico called "sopa de piedra de oaxaca" but here the idea of adding rocks is that they are part of the cooking, not necessarily of the ingredients. The rocks are heated up enough to make the broth boil once they are added into the rest of the soup. The plate is served still boiling with the rocks sticking out in the middle, supposedly giving it flavour and helping the broth stay warm.

[ivoxus]

I remember a long while back, there were various gum companies saying that “chewing gum cleans your teeth and helps prevent cavities” and they stopped advertising that so id love a food theory that actually test how well gum cleans your teeth

[Cosmic-mane]

I think another factor that helps this dish being seeked out is the fact that you can get a mouthful of flavor, without the hassle of digesting a full plate of food

[CoreenMontagna]

The ultimate example of “it’s just a vehicle to get the sauce to my face”

[ForestMonke]

You know it’s a good day when MatPat says 4 dad jokes at the very start of a video

[lysbethmiranda]

I went out to eat with my coworkers today and I saw that the restaurant offers ladies night on Thursdays with discounted drinks/food items. I know many restaurants do this sort of deal for different categories as well. It would be cool if you can do a food theory about the origins of “ladies nights” at restaurants! Kinda got me curious!!

[kareningram]

Stone soup was one of my favorite books when I was a kid, so this really doesn't sound farfetched to me.

[arymillarosewood]

I actually remember in in elementary school my teacher taught us how to make stone soup. First and main ingredient was stone. Followed whatever little seasonings were at hand. She told us a story about the soup but I forgot the story but could never forget being given a bowl with thin liquid and a couple of stones.

[ryanwong]

the thing about it being a famine food is true, we also got tons of other regional famine food variations such as smectite powder, which is basically a medical-use powder/dirt historically used to feed the masses during famines. theres also a dish that involves cooking an egg by mixing it with burning alcohol. this aforementioned dish has now evolved to be a side-dish to be paired with strong alcohol, just like the rocks (side dishes for alcohol are legit considered a field of study and a major part of culture)

[iamcondescending]

Gnocchi could be considered "famine food" I think, it was created by peasants in Italy, it's made out of basically just potatoes, and flour, and was combined, originally, with simple tomatoes sauces.

Not it can go for like $40 in high-end Italian restaurants.

[alishahird]

Reminds me of the story called "stone soup".

One person puts stones in a cauldron filled with boiling water, pretends it tastes amazing. One by one the villagers, investigate and end up wanting soup. So they each bring an ingredient to extend the soup. By the end of the story the cauldron is filled with onions, potatoes, meat, ect....and a few stones.

[johndemore]

Found it😁
Stone Soup is a European folk story in which hungry strangers convince the people of a town to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal that everyone enjoys, and exists as a moral regarding the value of sharing. In varying traditions, the stone has been replaced with other common inedible objects, and therefore the fable is also known as axe soup, button soup, nail soup, and wood soup.Wikipedia

[gaminggladiator]

I can actually see this being adapted into a more edible varient, like using a stone-like ingredient that’s safe to ingest, or maybe a sort of dessert varient, that uses edible rock candy, and while isn’t stir-fried, could be dressed up to look like it is.

[CatQueenOfPluto]

My great grandma had a stone that was carved out to look like a fish. It was put into soup pots and the idea was that it had stored the seasoning much like a good cast iron pan is never truly cleaned. My mom told me about the story of stone soup after I asked about the weird "fish" at the bottom of the pot

[yuu]

THANK YOU! and HUGEE respect for all the theorist team for actually doing their research and doesn't making fun of it for being a poverty food, I saw too much people mocking this dish and said such horrendous stuff about it (it's either racist slurs or straight up mocking poor people) :/
sorry if my english is bad it wasn't my mother tongue, greetings from asia!

[therealusman]

as a rock i can confirm people’s favourite food is rocks, i see my fellow rocks being grabbed out from the ground everyday and im glad you brought up this topic, im very scared and im living under an ant hill, i see a human coming, wish the best for me.

[hyzmarie]

Actually, my mom has made bread for years both before and after the pandemic! She doesn’t make it that often, but around Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter, she makes amazing cinnamon rolls! Those cinnamon rolls are a brioche, a type of enriched dough (baking nerd code for “We added eggs to this”) with tangzhong, a Japanese technique for cooking the flour beforehand to make the bread fluffier. Sometimes, she also makes pizza/calzones/Stromboli with homemade crust, although again, this is a special treat and not super common. But it does happen!

[tyhqo]

Here in Portugal, we have a soup called: "sopa da pedra", wich can translate to something like: "rock's soup". It's basically a soup with a big rock inside to bring an extra flavour.