 So, showing off a decided attitude, a mix of fear and wit, she poured the mixture into an iron container and cooked it in the "tatakua" ("hole of fire", a rustic Guarani oven made of clay and adobe), from which she obtained a "solid soup".Don Carlos, after tasting it, found it very delicious and immediately named it "sopa paraguaya".Another story, no less credible, says that in ancient times, this food was made with fresh corn and cooked in the "ñaúpyvú" (clay pot), not in the "modern" oven inherited from the colonizers.