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
Bookbinder soup Bookbinder soup Bookbinder's soup is a type of soup pioneered in the United States of America in 1893 when Samuel Bookbinder created Old Original Bookbinder's restaurant in Philadelphia. The soup is served at some other restaurants including the Drake Hotel in Chicago. The soup is tomato-based with typical stew vegetables such as carrots, celery, bell peppers, onions, leeks, mushrooms, and garlic. It is commonly made with snapping turtle. The soup made by the Drake Hotel in Chicago has been written about by several different sites and is said to take less than an hour and a half to make. The