Mock Turtle he was a Turtle the Mock Turtle answers, "We called him tortoise because he taught us!" ('tortoise' and 'taught us' both being pronounced <tɔːtʊs> in Carroll's dialect). To say that the Mock Turtle's name is a pun on the name of the soup is incomplete. The Tenniel illustration of the Mock Turtle specifically depicts it as a collection of creatures that make up the ingredients of mock turtle soup; they are not random. The pun is not only of the name, but of the nature of the soup itself. Traditionally, mock turtle soup takes the parts of a calf that
Stracciatella (soup) Stracciatella (soup) Stracciatella (; in Italian, a diminutive derived from the verb "stracciare" ("to shred"), meaning "a little shred"), also known as "Stracciatella alla romana", is an Italian soup consisting of meat broth and small shreds of an egg-based mixture, prepared by drizzling the mixture into boiling broth and stirring. It is popular around Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy. A similar soup, called "zanzarelli", was described by Martino da Como in his 15th century manual, "The Art of Cooking". Other variants exist. Traditionally "stracciatella alla romana" used to be served at the start of Easter lunches. "Stracciatella