calf's head
Mock Turtle Soup
This soup is called Mock Turtle Soup. It was invented as a cheaper version of green turtle soup. Green turtle soup is now illegal, considering the green turtle is a protected species.
Beef or veal (usually the grisly bits like meat from the calves head and feet) sometimes combined with oysters or clams.
The Mock Turtle is a character in Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.He is named after mock turtle soup, which was very popular in England at the time the book was written. Turtle soup was considered a delicacy, but as turtle was too expensive for most people they made fake, or mock, turtle soup instead, usually from calf's head and offal.Carroll clearly found the idea that a mock turtle would be a real animal quite funny (in much the same way that Scottish people occasionally joke about hunting for wild haggis)
`Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?'`No,' said Alice. `I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is.'`It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,' said the Queen.`I never saw one, or heard of one,' said Alice.`Come on, then,' said the Queen, `and he shall tell you his history,'The Mock Turtle is a character from Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, who does not appear in the 1951 Disney adaptation.He appears in Chapter 9, the Mock Turtle's Story, where he seems to be a miserable character, always sobbing and sighing, but the Gryphon assures Alice that there is actually nothing wrong with him:It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know.The Mock Turtle's name is a joke about a popular food of the time. The Victorians enjoyed turtle soup, but it was very expensive, so they made a fake turtle soup out of calf which was called mock turtle soup - 'mock' meaning 'fake'. Carroll was clearly amused by the idea of a 'mock turtle' being a real creature (in much the same way the Scottish people will occasionally joke about hunting for haggis.)
As a verb: It's unkind to mock someone because they're different from you. As an adjective: Since I've never had turtle soup, I don't know if mock turtle soup tastes like the real thing. As a noun: Poor Brittany Spears has become the mock of the gossip industry.
The melancholy Lewis Carroll character named for the offal used in England to imitate an expensive reptilian soup is the Mock Turtle from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." He is a sad, turtle-like creature who tells stories of his past experiences and laments his transformation into mock turtle soup.
The Mock Turtle in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is a fantastical creature that is a mix of a turtle and a calf. It has the body of a turtle and the head, hooves, and tail of a calf. Its unique appearance and eccentric personality add to the whimsical nature of the story.
The Main Ingredient with Bobby Flay - 1996 Soup was released on: USA: 6 October 1997
Posole is one of the many Mexican soups where the main ingredient is corn.
pork meat / usually the shoulder .. then Hominy.
Usually Snapping Turtle is used for turtle soup.