Home concert: Stone soup

Rebecca (ESL) remarks that the home concert reminds her of a story.
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Rebecca: Stone soup. That’s what it was.

Bill: Stone soup?

Rebecca: You know. The story of the two old women who are sitting out on the street and they boil a stone in water and someone comes by and they ask what are you cooking and they say “stone soup” but it would taste better if you brought a potato or something.

Bill: Aah, the one that goes, everybody brought a little something and it all turned out delicious.

Rebecca: Right. A little bit of opera, a little bit of poetry, a little bit of Bach organ, a little bit of fork song –

Bill: Folk song. Not fork song.

Rebecca: Sorry. And the food and wine.

Bill: Oh too right. Samosas were great and the this is a good merlot.

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Voiceover

Rebecca is ESL (English as Second Language), not NS (native speaker) and she occasionally speaks as she spells (“folk” becomes “fork”). Bill’s tone is lightly instructive, not patronizing.

Stone Soup Story:
In a town, there were two poor women. They had no food. They thought of a plan. They put a stone and some water in a pot. Next they made a fire. Then they boiled the water. A young man came along and asked what they were cooking.
“A delicious stone soup. All it lacks is some carrots.”
The young man went away and fetched some carrots.
After that, another young man came along and was told that all the soup needed was potatoes so he brought those.
More people came and in turn brought different vegetables.
In the end, after many vegetables were added, the result was that the soup really was delicious.

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