1.   Lunch was a watery soup with some vegetables.

2.   Traditionally in France, the upper classes ate fine cooking, while the poorest people drank watery soup.

3.   People scoured the countryside for food, eating wild grass, watery soups and even bugs.

4.   Many slept on filthy mattresses with no sheets and were fed a monotonous and skimpy diet of pasta, rice and watery soup.