Minestrone

Hailing from Rome, Italy, Americans were quick to take on minestrone soup as one of their favorites. The flavorful mix of vegetables and beans in tomato broth is incredibly filling and tastes fantastic. Minestrone is also a great healthy choice because it’s incredibly flexible and can be made no matter produce is in season.

Slurpy History
As Wikipedia says it:

“Some of the earliest origins of minestrone soup pre-date the expansion of the Latin tribes of Rome into what became the Roman Kingdom (later Roman Republic and Empire), when the local diet was "vegetarian by necessity" and consisted mostly of vegetables, such as onions, lentils, cabbage, garlic, broad beans, mushrooms, carrots, asparagus, and turnips.

During this time, the main dish of a meal would have been pulte, a simple but filling porridge of spelt flour cooked in salt water, to which whatever vegetables that were available would have been added.”

Nowadays, some minestrone has meatballs along with all the normal stuff