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by vincent-manis 983 days ago
Stone Soup (Revised)

Everybody in the village was starving, there was no food. A traveller came and told the people that he could make soup from a stone and water. Soon, the cauldron was bubbling. The traveller tasted the soup and said, “Yummy! But it would taste even better if we added a turnip.” A villager had a turnip, and threw it into the pot. Other villagers added some spices, a parsnip, a few mushrooms, some barley, and other ingredients. The mayor had a taste, and pronounced it delicious and nourishing.

Then the traveller took the cauldron to the city, and poured the contents into cans, which he sold for $20 per can. This generated enough revenue that he could open his own soup factory.

This is called relicensing.