Stone Soup is an old folk story in which a hungry stranger tricks a reluctant town into giving ingredients one-by-one to add to a soup started with only water and a stone.
In varying traditions, the stone has been replaced with other common inedible objects, and therefore the fable is also known as *button soup*, wood soup, nail soup, and axe soup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_soup
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