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Soup of Poverty

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Soup of Poverty	comment	When you're poor and subsisting on Poverty Food, more often than not your food of choice will be soup (or stew, broth, ramen, gruel, or porridge). It's easy to make and cheap to produce in big batches, whether it's being sold in 99-cent cans or ladled out into bowls to feed a line of hungry people. If you're making it yourself, why, practically anything edible (and even some things that aren't...shhh!) can go into a soup — just throw it in the pot, add water, boil it up and you're done. You can even keep it going indefinitely by adding new ingredients whenever it runs low, making a perpetual stew. Needless to say, there's a reason why a place that serves food to the hungry is called a "soup kitchen". Regular patrons of the Soup Kitchen of Poverty include poor people, homeless people, prisoners, soldiers, traveling vagrants, wilderness survivors, and Starving Students. However, while this particular soup will keep your belly full, it probably doesn't taste that great. It may be a thin, watery broth or gruel. It may be a murky shade of brown, thick enough for a spoon to stand up in it, and have unidentifiable lumps floating on the surface. It may not even taste that bad, but just makes you tired of living on it day after day. And in the worst case, it may be filled with chunks of "mystery meat" that aren't really pork... Specific types of "poverty soup" are, in fiction, associated with certain time periods or genres. Medieval times: A thick, meaty brown stew and a hunk of stale bread. 18th-19th century: A bowl of watery, tasteless white porridge. (Pea soup and oatmeal gruel were considered the iconic Poverty Foods in 19th-century English literature.) Modern times: Cheap canned soup or instant ramen, which comes with a little foil packet of flavored powder that makes soup when added to hot water. Futuristic times or science fiction: An artificially formulated nutritional paste that meets all the necessary vitamin and mineral requirements but tastes like absolutely nothing. Related tropes: Poverty Food: The Souper-Trope. I Ate WHAT?!: That meaty chunk in your bowl probably wasn't chicken. Lethal Chef: Even lousy soup made by an indifferent cook is better than starving. Mystery Meat: "Once it's in the soup, I'll call it beef!" Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious: Oatmeal, watery broth or any other tasteless but filling version of the Soup of Poverty qualifies. Reduced to Ratburgers: Rats have meat on them, so into the soup they go. Soup Is Medicine: Soup cures hunger and sniffles? Truly, it's the wonder food! Starving Student: Instant ramen is the food of choice for many poor college students. Stock Medieval Meal: This soup may be part of the standard peasant diet. Too Desperate to Be Picky: If it's edible, it's going in the soup. Not to be confused with Stone Soup.
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Soup of Poverty / int_13d4b38f	comment	She Who Became The Sun: Zhu's last meal with her famine-stricken family before everyone but her dies is a soup of water, some beans, and their last winter melon. They don't even let her have any melon.
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Soup of Poverty / int_1768ad00	comment	Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol: The family of Bob Cratchit is so poor that the only thing they're shown eating on Christmas Eve is thin broth. This happens while the kids begin to lament their poverty and sing about how much they want expensive, filling meals (and presents).
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Soup of Poverty / int_182dee4c	comment	American Girls: Kit: When the Great Depression hits, Kit's family has to take in boarders in order to make ends meet. With so many people living at the house, Kit's mother has to find creative ways to stretch the food so that it lasts, including cutting toast in triangles to make it look like there's more and topping the oatmeal with peach slices to distract the boarders from noticing that they've eaten it four times in one week.
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Soup of Poverty / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Homer Loves Flanders", Homer and Ned volunteer together at a soup kitchen, feeding soup to homeless people.
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Soup of Poverty / int_30c1ffd0	comment	Stardew Valley: Algae Soup is a food item that can be made using four Green Algae, which are fairly common. It is said to be "a little slimy", but restores +75 energy and +33 health, so players are often reliant on it in the early game, especially to get through the caves.
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Soup of Poverty / int_34d4f0e7	comment	The Julian Chapter of Wonder (2012) features his grandmother speaking about her experience as a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust, hiding out in a barn that belonged to her disabled classmate and his family. She even mentioned near the end that the 'soup' was just some bread and vegetables in water, and that both she and the disabled boy had lost so much weight.
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Soup of Poverty / int_39a1676b	comment	Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Tess' ancestors were once nobility, but they have fallen so far that they now live in poverty. She remarks that they have a silver spoon with the family's coat of arms on it, but it is so worn that her mother uses it to stir the pea soup.
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Soup of Poverty / int_3e96b159	comment	Cats Don't Dance: As Danny glumly rides the bus back to Kokomo, Indiana, he sees many Funny Animal extras on the street. A few are warming themselves by an open fire in a grease bucket, while many more are lined up, bowls in hand, for a ladling of soup from a large steel pot. Before Danny arrived in Hollywood, these folks could at least be cast as extras or "atmosphere" people, and enjoy sit-down meals. His fiasco at Mammoth Studios made all animal extras pariahs, so seeing this poverty soup line makes Danny feel even worse.
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Soup of Poverty / int_42482e40	comment	Oliver! features the same workhouse gruel as its source novel, Oliver Twist.
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Soup of Poverty / int_436f9154	comment	Annie has a variation on the gruel/porridge variant: in Miss Hannigan's Orphanage of Fear, the girls live on mush note cornmeal porridge, a Great Depression staple . At one point Miss Hannigan excites them by remarking that they're not having hot mush for a change, but then reveals that they're having cold mush instead.
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Soup of Poverty / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop: In one episode, the crew has so little money that all they have to eat is self-cooking instant ramen.
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Soup of Poverty / int_443000dd	comment	The Last Unicorn: Molly's group complains about being served rat soup for three nights in a row, and laments that at least she could have used a different rat.
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Soup of Poverty / int_48ed41c8	comment	Pocahontas: Discussed. When John Smith is trying to convince the settlers that they can benefit from cooperating with the Native Americans instead of fighting them, he shows them an ear of corn.
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Soup of Poverty / int_4c467f43	comment	Oliver Twist: Oliver is stuck in an Orphanage of Fear that keeps its charges just north of starvation on a bowl of thin gruel three times a day. In the book's signature scene, Oliver is bullied into requesting a second bowl, outraging the attendants.
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Soup of Poverty / int_4cd32aa7	comment	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Poor-quality food costs only pennies per day and keeps people reasonably healthy, but generally consists of rough bread with thin soup or a Mess on a Plate.
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Soup of Poverty / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: In "A Jones for a Smith", Francine is sentenced to community service at a soup kitchen for driving drunk, and Stan, who had just sworn to never help anyone (or let anyone be helped), attempts to steal the soup barrel and eat it all. At the end, after Stan finally swallows his pride and realizes help is good, he returns to Francine at the kitchen and politely asks for some soup.
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Soup of Poverty / int_6bef8832	comment	Baldur's Gate III: The Tiefling refugees in the Druid Grove have a pot of gruel on the boil. It's described as "watery sludge" and "gray goo", but is as good for you as a Healing Potion.
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Soup of Poverty / int_6de33ac8	comment	Dead by Daylight: When The Twins/Charlotte and Victor Deshayes were born with conjoined and deformed bodies, their mother Madeleine was accused of being a witch and had to flee with them into the wilderness to escape being executed. They had to survive by eating whatever they could find, including a stew of foraged vegetables mixed with moss and bark, which was said to "create a false sense of fullness."
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Soup of Poverty / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	Neopets: If you have less than 3,000 Neopoints to your name, you can feed your Neopets for free at the Soup Kitchen, which is run by the kindly Soup Faerie. Unlike most examples of poverty soup, her soup is so delicious that rich Neopians sometimes come to the Soup Kitchen and pretend to be poor just to get a bowl. Several food items have gruel in them, which appears as an unappetizing greyish-brown slop. The description of the Zafara Gruel is "This cute bowl might just help you forget that you are eating gruel." Meanwhile, the Gruel Ice Lolly is said to be "for those that want a cold refreshing treat without breaking the bank," and the Gruel Cake is "perfect for those planning parties on a tight budget!"
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Soup of Poverty / int_7fd1fd91	comment	King Kong: To really sell the feeling of the Great Depression at the time this story takes place, long lines of poor people can be seen eating soup in the streets, and following an evening's Vaudeville act, Ann Darrow takes her elderly friend Manny to dinner.
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Soup of Poverty / int_820b56de	comment	In Son of a Critch, the Critch family is lower-middle class, getting by on Mike Sr.'s earnings as a small-town radio presenter, and consequently, much of their dinner fare consists of things that have been boiled to death in a pot.
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Soup of Poverty / int_84f3f987	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: The refugee camp in the war-torn Xyz Dimension only serves soup. Otherwise the locals can only depend on the water from whatever water fountain is still working and whatever little canned food is left.
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Soup of Poverty / int_853d2b96	comment	Princess Academy: Even though the villagers of Mount Eskel are the only miners of linder (a valuable type of stone) in the world, they remain poor because the lowlander traders take advantage of their lack of knowledge to not pay them fairly for their linder. Sometimes they have to water down their gruel to stretch it thin enough to get through the winter. They have a little song about it that goes, "Water in the porridge / And more salt in the gruel / Doesn't make a belly / Full, not a bellyful."
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Soup of Poverty / int_893bf98d	comment	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Bucket family lives in extreme poverty with Mr. Bucket working as a toothpaste-cap screwer at a factory to provide for himself, his wife, his son Charlie, and the four grandparents. All they can afford to eat is cabbage soup, bread, margarine, and boiled potatoes (and every year on Charlie's birthday, a single chocolate bar which they have to scrimp and save for). Things get even worse in the winter when Mr. Bucket loses his job and even cabbage soup becomes unaffordable for them.
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Soup of Poverty / int_8a836c90	comment	The Walking Dead: Played With in Season 9's "Who Are You Now?". Luke, who is trying to help his group gain membership with the Alexandrians they've just encountered, offers to make a fancy meal out of the deer they've killed. Eugene shoots him down, stating they primarily make stew since it will feed more people. At this time, Alexandria, though isolationist, is doing reasonably well in terms of food and survival, so the stew isn't out of desperation but just them still being smart considering the many times they have suffered food shortages. Later in Season 10's "Diverged", Carol struggles to put together ingredients for a soup in the aftermath of the Whisperer War that destroyed most of their food supplies just as the town was forced to accept the combined peoples of Hilltop and the Kingdom.
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Soup of Poverty / int_8c85e195	comment	The Chosen TV Series: Ramah's father mentions this trope when she abandons her job to follow Jesus Christ along with Thomas.
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Soup of Poverty / int_8d13beac	comment	St. Joseph in the Forest: When the youngest daughter comes across the cottage of St. Joseph, he allows her to stay the night, but the only food he has to offer is a few roots, which she has to scrape and cook into a soup. Despite being hungry herself, she gives him the bigger portion of the soup and is rewarded with a sack of gold in the morning. After that, her two elder sisters try their luck. The middle sister gives him a portion of the soup equal to hers and gets a small bag of money. The eldest sister eats almost all the soup and leaves him the scrapings, and for her selfishness, gets a second nose stuck to her face.
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Soup of Poverty / int_952d2e68	comment	American Girls Collection: American Girls: Addy: When Addy lives on Master Stevens' plantation, the only thing she and the other slave children are fed is cornmeal mush. American Girls: Kit: When the Great Depression hits, Kit's family has to take in boarders in order to make ends meet. With so many people living at the house, Kit's mother has to find creative ways to stretch the food so that it lasts, including cutting toast in triangles to make it look like there's more and topping the oatmeal with peach slices to distract the boarders from noticing that they've eaten it four times in one week. In the History Mysteries book The Strange Case of Baby H, shortly after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, soldiers set up relief stations and hand out bowls of oatmeal and slices of bread to survivors.
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Soup of Poverty / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: A low-quality stew called the "bowl o' brown" is the staple food of peasants living in Flea Bottom, simmering for years inside huge tubs and always getting new ingredients added to it. Any edible ingredient can be tossed into a bowl o' brown: barley, carrot, turnip, apple, fish, rat, cat, pigeon, horse, and... well, when a bard named Symon Silver-Tongue tries to blackmail Tyrion Lannister for better career prospects, let's just say a certain pot-shop ends up getting a surprise donation of "long pork".note Or not. Tyrion does tell his henchman to kill the bard, and to stuff him into the stew, but he was mostly joking about the last part, and there're way easier ways to dispose of the body. When House Bolton's forces and allies are snowed in at Winterfell by a massive blizzard, the common men and soldiers are served watery grey porridge and plain bread while the lords and knights eat the good food like ham, bacon, and butter, which causes some grumbles of discontent among the former.
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Soup of Poverty / int_9da908aa	comment	Yellowjackets: The group has been stranded for months in the Canadian wilderness and they have trouble finding food. In "It Chooses" Van offers a leather belt to Mari, suggesting they add it to the meager soup as a source of protein. With a sarcastic "Belt soup. Yum," Mari drops it in the pot. This is the episode where the group holds a Lottery of Doom to pick out who will be sacrificed to the Wilderness and eaten.
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Soup of Poverty / int_9e3d1858	comment	Kingdom Come: Deliverance: Stew pots can be found at campfires and kitchens, and can be used as free food sources by the player.
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Soup of Poverty / int_a15073d	comment	Parodied in Trolls Band Together. When Veneer is expressing reservations about draining the talent out of trolls to fuel their popstar careers, Velvet asks, "Do you wanna lose all this and go back to the dark place where we had nothing?", followed by a flashback of Velvet and Veneer as small orphan children holding empty soup bowls and begging for more food. Then Veneer reminds his sister that they actually had a normal middle-class upbringing and their parents were dentists.
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Soup of Poverty / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Parodied in "Xmas Story", in which homeless robots go to a kitchen for booze (as robots run on alcohol in the future). Leela grew up in an impoverished orphanage, where the thing she looked forward to the most was Double-Soup Tuesdays.
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Soup of Poverty / int_a52286a5	comment	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: Through unexplained means, the utopia of Omelas is maintained by keeping a child in a tormented state for its entire life, locked in a dark basement and fed nothing but a half-bowl of cornmeal and grease a day.
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Soup of Poverty / int_a8610093	comment	In Frostpunk, the Soup law gives you the option to turn 2 units of raw food into 5 units of food rations rather than the standard 4, which can be a blessing if you have a potential famine on your hands. The downside is that consuming the slurry causes your citizens to become more Discontent little by little. It's negligible at first, but if you don't switch back to standard rations in due time, the meter will keep ticking up.
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Soup of Poverty / int_a9f06cb6	comment	In the VeggieTales episode "Duke and the Great Pie War" (a retelling of the Book of Ruth), Nona and Petunia, both formerly well-off, have fallen on hard times. One evening, Petunia, trying to put on a cheerful attitude, announces that they have "water soup" for dinner. After Duke offers them whatever they can pick from his orchard, she instead makes apple fricassee.
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Soup of Poverty / int_ab22a621	comment	Robot Alchemic Drive: The protagonist's best friend Nanao offers to make you a bowl of bread soup early on in the storyline. This is the first of many indications of just how poverty-stricken she is, but she always tries to stay in good spirits, even when the protagonist calls her out for not taking care of herself for the sake of saving what little money she can get.
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Soup of Poverty / int_ac4932d7	comment	In Mockingjay, after District 12 is destroyed by firebombs, the survivors are evacuated to District 13, where everything is tightly controlled to conserve resources, down to each citizen's individual portion of food during scheduled mealtimes. One of the meals is fish stew, which doesn't taste bad, but the slimy texture makes it hard to swallow. Gale advises Flavius, "I wouldn't let that get cold. It doesn't improve the consistency."
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Soup of Poverty / int_b4963c9f	comment	Good Eats: In the episode The Big Chili, Alton Brown notes that all the claimed originators of chili shared one thing in common: poverty.
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Soup of Poverty / int_b5d2696e	comment	Asylum of Doom: Oatmeal is seemingly the only thing the inmates at the Burke Lunatic Asylum get served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Soup of Poverty / int_b88b182f	comment	Exaggerated in The Dark Eye. Serfs in the Bornland are expected to reserve one plate of their poverty soup for their lord, in case they show upnote They won't; why would they? as a token of hospitality, no matter how dire the times are.
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Soup of Poverty / int_c054aa77	comment	Cult of the Lamb: Some of the one-star dishes are soups that are cheap to make, but have a small chance of making your followers sick after eating them. Grassy Gruel has the description "Better than nothing." It has a 25% chance of causing illness. Stringy Meat Gruel is "made from scraps" and has a 10% chance to cause exhaustion. Pungent Fish Stew "tastes better than it looks" and has a 10% chance to cause illness. Paltry Pumpkin Soup has a 5% chance to cause illness and diarrhea.
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Soup of Poverty / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Dan Lewis worked at a food pantry where he and his coworkers supply the poor with cans of soup. His coworker suggests he take one home and he refuses because he wants others to have it instead, before he goes home and it's revealed to the audience that he is also poor and has nothing in his fridge. He quietly berates himself for not just taking the soup that he was offered.
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Soup of Poverty / int_c4771251	comment	Mistborn: The Final Empire: The scene when Vin is introduced Soothing by Breeze is set in a "soup kitchen", where skaa, especially the poorest ones, eat cheap and really bad soup.
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Soup of Poverty / int_c564dcf0	comment	Moving Pictures: Holy Wood is a Boom Town; there aren't enough jobs to go around, so most people have only pennies to spend on food. One entrepreneur opens up an eatery that sells disgusting stew at thirty pence a bowl. If you have to ask what kind of stew, you aren't hungry enough. They eventually settle on calling it fish stew, "on the principle that if you find it in water, it's a fish."
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Soup of Poverty / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: In the second arc, while Yusei, Jack, and Crow (and later Bruno) are living in a rented garage, they have financial issues so the food they're seen eating most often is instant ramen. The thing is, it actually tastes really good and Jack is absolutely obsessed with the stuff, which becomes a plot point when another character who currently lives on Poverty Food breaks in, said character being Yeager, who steals a cup because he really likes it. Half of that particular mini-arc is Jack and Yeagar crying over their love of instant ramen. Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: The refugee camp in the war-torn Xyz Dimension only serves soup. Otherwise the locals can only depend on the water from whatever water fountain is still working and whatever little canned food is left.
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Soup of Poverty / int_ce05bda7	comment	The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me?: A Japanese salaryman falls asleep one night and wakes up to find himself the eighth son of a dirt-poor noble family. The first night after he wakes up they're celebrating the wedding of the eldest son with a lavish feast, but the night after that they're stuck eating soup that's barely got anything beyond water in it. This motivates him to become rich so that he doesn't have to eat like that anymore.
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Soup of Poverty / int_d26874b6	comment	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Invoked in Old School, when Greg's class goes on a field trip to Hardscrabble Farms, a wilderness survival camp. The people running it don't believe in wasting food, so at the end of each meal, everyone's leftovers are dumped into a giant stew pot. Mr. Healey tells Greg that they did the same thing when he went to the camp 30 years ago as a kid, and they're still using the same pot. One girl eats three servings of the stew to make herself sick so she can get sent home early, which Greg finds a bit extreme.
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Soup of Poverty / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: Residents of the Seam, poorest part of District 12, regularly buy bowls of hot soup from an old woman named Greasy Sae who throws whatever ingredients she can find into her kettle. When Katniss and Gale bring her the carcasses of wild dogs they've killed while hunting, she winks at them and says, "Once it's in the soup, I call it beef." In the winter, she makes a stew out of mice meat, tree bark, and pig entrails. When Katniss is tending to Peeta's injured leg, she makes a soup out of mashed groosling meat and roots. She admits to herself that she's not much of a cook, but even she can make soup because it mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting. In Mockingjay, after District 12 is destroyed by firebombs, the survivors are evacuated to District 13, where everything is tightly controlled to conserve resources, down to each citizen's individual portion of food during scheduled mealtimes. One of the meals is fish stew, which doesn't taste bad, but the slimy texture makes it hard to swallow. Gale advises Flavius, "I wouldn't let that get cold. It doesn't improve the consistency."
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Soup of Poverty / int_daff6a21	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: In the second arc, while Yusei, Jack, and Crow (and later Bruno) are living in a rented garage, they have financial issues so the food they're seen eating most often is instant ramen. The thing is, it actually tastes really good and Jack is absolutely obsessed with the stuff, which becomes a plot point when another character who currently lives on Poverty Food breaks in, said character being Yeager, who steals a cup because he really likes it. Half of that particular mini-arc is Jack and Yeagar crying over their love of instant ramen.
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Soup of Poverty / int_e86200e3	comment	The Demon Girl Next Door: At the beginning of the series, the Yoshida family is cursed to subsist on 40,000 yen a month (400 USD, based on the exchange rate of the time). On the day when Yuko sprouted horns and a tail, they also ran out of the rice they could afford for the month, with her mother saying they'd have to make do with miso soup for the rest of the month.
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Soup of Poverty / int_ed8b3b42	comment	American Girls: Addy: When Addy lives on Master Stevens' plantation, the only thing she and the other slave children are fed is cornmeal mush.
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