Dubbed “the world’s hardest dish” – literally – a traditional stir-fry featuring stones as its key ingredient has sparked culinary curiosity on Chinese social media.
Stone soup in the European sense typically just refers to a hearty soup with basic ingredients and is just reference to the fable meant to promote sharing/community. There’s a lot of retelling of it, including other inedible objects other than stones.
I believe the name was based on a European folk tale, not actually using stones as ingredients. Here’s an account of the fable.
Here is an article specifically about the Italian dish you’re referring to, which also attributes its name to the fable; not actual stones as an ingredient.
Stone soup in the European sense typically just refers to a hearty soup with basic ingredients and is just reference to the fable meant to promote sharing/community. There’s a lot of retelling of it, including other inedible objects other than stones.