Black soup has existed some form almost everywhere in the world, limited only by religious beliefs.

That way, they could escape the black soup their cooks made from pigs' blood.

There a long rectangle of evil black soup simmered in the afternoon sun.

I often dreamed about that: my sealed, translucent eyes swimming in the black soup of life.

One bowl of black soup a day for the youngsters, and iron discipline maintained by the birch.

There is also a soup made from blood, called svartsoppa (black soup).

I lived in barracks on black soup.

A bowl of black soup?

I thought of thousands of gallons of water from fire hoses and imagined a cold black soup thick with dangerous debris.

Black poli'uka, made with goose or pork blood, is closely related to the Swedish "black soup" svartsoppa.

Where to Eat Spartans may no longer subsist on black soup and porridge, but their city is still no culinary paradise.

No recipe for the Spartan black soup has survived, but blood soups are still eaten in various countries today, such as Italy and France.

The meat soaked in the black soup is also served in tacos, sandwiches and even in panuchos or salbutes.

Mr. MacKenzie specializes in beautiful versions of ordinary things, like gleaming black soup bowls, just right for creamy soup, for $4.50.

No wonder Hitler wrote rapturously of the city, down to its black soup, which he thought similar to a broth found among the peasants of Schleswig-Holstein.

All end up either in Throop's great black soup kettle or in a cage, where they must amuse Throop and all three of his heads as they dine.

Rawon or Nasi Rawon/Rawon Rice (when served with rice) is a strong rich tasting traditional Indonesian beef black soup.

It is perhaps closer in appearance and preparation to the Polish soup Czernina or an even more ancient Spartan dish known as melas zomos (black soup) whose primary ingredients were pork, vinegar and blood.

The canal at this point was crossed by the road bridge which made it the ideal point from which to hump junk out of a car boot and chuck it into the black soup of the stagnant water.

Now convention required that Feliks, his black soup obediently consumed, felicitate the engaged couple, which he did with solemn grace, raising his glass and speaking in a voice from which emotion had been excised: 'May you enjoy unending happiness.'

Martin of Tours Eve is celebrated in Scania in November with Mårten Gås parties, where roast goose and svartsoppa ('black soup', made of goose stock, fruit, spices, spirits and goose blood) are served.

According to legend, a man from Sybaris, a city in southern Italy infamous for its luxury and gluttony (which gave rise to the word sybarite), after tasting the Spartans' black soup remarked with disgust, "Now I know why the Spartans do not fear death".

Deftly, using both his big hands, he placed the bowl of black soup before the impetuous U'tor, and when Feliks looked down at it and saw the terrible blackness there he knew that his proposal of marriage had been rejected, and so did everyone else at the table.