# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380 "2022-09-28T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 461
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9204 "2024-01-11T20:42:12Z")
The Polls Only thread has stopped updating me about new posts so I keep reading replies to ones I haven’t seen yet. Anybody know how to fix this? I’ve tried changing from “tracking” to “watching” and back but that hasn’t worked. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9205 "2024-01-11T21:06:12Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > The Polls Only thread has stopped updating me about new posts so I keep reading replies to ones I haven’t seen yet. Anybody know how to fix this? I’d guess you’re getting notifications and your device is forgetting to tell you. Restart device. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9206 "2024-01-11T21:09:23Z")
We regularly make meals that use up whatever needs to be used up. It allows for creativity in the kitchen. Some of my best meals have been thrown together stuff. Sadly though they’re always a one-time thing. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9207 "2024-01-11T21:18:59Z")
I have restarted it. Still nothing. I think it’s a problem with Discourse. The only thread that doesn’t keep me updated is that one. All of the other notifications work. It’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9208 "2024-01-11T21:29:01Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > From your cite: > …lede felt like, not jargon, but slang, from the same generation as —30— to represent the end of a story… Since was taught the latter in journalism school circa 1975, I can only conclude the former is also canon. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9209 "2024-01-11T21:31:25Z")
My mom would boil to death all sorts of things she called “greens”. Mind you she was a child of the depression, a farm girl. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9210 "2024-01-11T21:45:34Z")
I was torn as to how I should answer the soup question. We never made a soup out of literally _everything_ in the fridge, but my mom did sometimes make vegetable soup by throwing in whatever vegetables needed to be used up. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9211 "2024-01-11T22:38:35Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > If you have Book 7 of Elly Griffith’s Ruth Galloway mystery series, though, I’d appreciate you getting done with that one. Haven’t been reading those – but just checked, and one of the libraries I go to has at least a couple of them, and they do look interesting. Thanks for the suggestion! Neither my mother nor I make “everything in the kitchen soup”; but my mother made a more planned version of it – leftover bits of vegetables, the small bit of water they were cooked in, meat bones, etc. would be saved, in the freezer if needed, and then when there were enough add a couple of good onions, and very likely some barley, and make soup. And I make a mixed-vegetables thing along the same lines: saute onions and garlic in a bit of olive oil, add whatever other veggies are around that don’t seem absolutely incompatible (often the better portions of the seconds which didn’t make it to market) until the pan is full. Side dish or if over rice with some cheese melted on top a one-dish meal. > [@kayaker](#): > > Some of my best meals have been thrown together stuff. Sadly though they’re always a one-time thing. Yeah, I know that one. ‘This is delicious! I should make it again – but I don’t remember exactly what I put in it, let alone the proportions.’ ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9212 "2024-01-11T22:40:40Z")
Never been to Europe or the UK. I’ve turned down a few chances, like when my brother lived in Germany (for work) and when my gf went to the UK and Iceland. The thing is I love the Caribbean. If I’m leaving the US it’s to go to an island. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9213 "2024-01-11T22:46:15Z")
I have been to Paris but missed it in the poll. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9214 "2024-01-11T22:46:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Mom had a fancy-ass soupstone that always went in the pot. Ok, I’ve googled it and have found lots of references to the Stone Soup folk tale, and references to soapstone because Google doesn’t believe that I can spell what I’m looking for, but I’m still not sure I know what a “soupstone” is. Something for keeping soup hot? I thought those go in a bowl, not the pot while it’s cooking. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9215 "2024-01-11T22:47:56Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > I have been to Paris but missed it in the poll. You can change your vote by clicking the grey “vote” button at the bottom of the poll and voting again. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9216 "2024-01-11T22:49:20Z")
Ooh! Live and learn, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9217 "2024-01-11T22:54:50Z")
It is a nod to the _Stone Soup_ story. The one she had or has was/is about golf ball size in a string wrap/cord hanger with a ring on the end of it. It is supposed to sit in the pot while it cooks, both imparting flavor from the last pot and absorbing from the current pot. The fanciful idea is that when you come to a pass of great poverty, you can heat up a pot of water and use the stone to get some brothy flavor. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9218 "2024-01-11T23:06:04Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The fanciful idea is that when you come to a pass of great poverty, you can heat up a pot of water and use the stone to get some brothy flavor. That isn’t actually how the stone works in the story. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9219 "2024-01-11T23:12:47Z")
Well, yes, I am familiar with the story. The soupstone is justa weird affectation. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9220 "2024-01-11T23:18:17Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > We called it “garbage soup”. My mom called it leftover soup. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9221 "2024-01-11T23:36:58Z")
I recently got Hellbent and Lives of Puppets but haven’t started either yet ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9222 "2024-01-11T23:38:55Z")
I’ve only been to Lisbon. It was for a wedding. Our hotel was just a few blocks from one of the ginjinha counters. Everyone there knew me by first name inside a couple of hours of us checking in. We got there first, and everyone who arrived I took them down there for shots. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9223 "2024-01-11T23:43:25Z")
Dublin, Madrid, and Lisbon for work, multiple trips for Madrid and Lisbon. Lots of good eating in Madrid and Lisbon, some okay Guinness drinking in Dublin. At least I got to see some of the James Joyce sites. We also drove up to Belfast, that was very interesting. Some other sites as a tourist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=460) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=462)