Mock Turtle were not frequently used and often discarded, including the head, hooves, and tail; and uses the non-muscular meat to imitate turtle meat. Tenniel's illustration shows the Mock Turtle with the body of a turtle, and the head, hooves, and tail of a calf. The complicated pun, then, is both word-play and picture-play. Mock Turtle The Mock Turtle is a fictional character devised by Lewis Carroll from his popular book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Its name is taken from a dish that was popular in the Victorian period, mock turtle soup. Carroll enjoyed such puns on Victorian fashions and etiquette, and
Cup-a-Soup starch, potato starch, sugar, salt, flavouring, glucose syrup, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium-ribonucleotides, parsley, yeast extract, hydrogenated vegetable oil). Grammarians have argued as to the correct plural form of Cup-a-Soup. Some believe the correct form is "Cups-a-Soup", whereas others contest that being a registered trademark the correct form is "Cup-a-Soups" (e.g. in Reeves and Mortimer's "Slade in Residence"). Cup-a-Soup features prominently in the Reeves and Mortimer sketches 'Slade in Residence' and 'Slade on Holiday' with the band being avid consumers of the instant soup. Cup-a-Soup Cup-a-Soup is an instant soup product sold under various brands worldwide. The soup is sold