History Quotes / SoupOfPoverty

->''In the Bottom there were pot-shops along the alleys where huge tubs of stew had been simmering for years, and you could trade half your bird for a heel of yesterday's bread and a "bowl o' brown," and they'd even stick the other half in the fire and crisp it up for you, so long as you plucked the feathers yourself. Arya would have given anything for a cup of milk and a lemon cake, but the brown wasn't so bad. It usually had barley in it, and chunks of carrot and onion and turnip, and sometimes even apple, with a film of grease swimming on top. Mostly she tried not to think about the meat.''

->'''Mr. Timmins:''' Why don't you ask some of our old friends [to come to dinner]? Old Mrs. Portman has asked us twenty times, I am sure, within the last two years.
->'''Mrs. Timmins:''' The last time we went there, there was pea-soup for dinner!

->''I'm hoping the peach slices will distract our guests from the fact that we've had oatmeal four times this week already. But it's cheap and it's filling.''

->'''Bandit #1:''' ''(spits out the liquid in his cup)'' Rat soup. Again rat soup.
->'''Bandit #2:''' At least [Molly] could use a different rat. The third night, anyway.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn''

->'''Melisandre:''' When I was your age, I lived on one bowl of stew a day, and "stew" is a kind word for it.
->'''Gendry:''' In Flea Bottom, we called them "bowls of brown". We'd pretend that the meat in them was chicken -- we knew it wasn't chicken.
-->-- ''Series/GameOfThrones'', "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS3E8SecondSons Second Sons]]"