Yeah yeah yeah chili and goetta, we get it, everyone knows about Cincinnati chili and goetta, but where's the love for Mock Turtle Soup? I know real heads respect it, rep it, but more often than not when you ask a Cincinnatian about their favorite regional foods they only name drop chili and goetta. Not even a shout out for fish logs, cheese crowns or anything else outside of the big 2.
So I guess what I'm asking is have you had mock turtle soup? Do you have any ideas why it's usually overlooked, even by "proud" locals? Is it an age thing? Is it because no trendy restaurants feature it on their menus? Is it a westside vs eastside thing? I'm perplexed.
Has anyone ever tried mock turtle soup before? I decided I wanted to see what the heck was in it, after all these years!
I found a recipe online here: https://soupaddict.com/mock-turtle-soup/
And honestly? It sounds wild- I've never heard of putting gingersnaps in soup before! Not sure if I'd like it, but it's different from any other soup I've ever heard of!
But then I kept searching to see if there were other variants, and these two recipes seem more consistent with one another (and no gingersnaps, or any ginger at all).
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/treme-mock-turtle-soup-51224210
https://www.tasteofthesouthmagazine.com/mock-turtle-soup/
Am I planning on trying any of these recipes? God no, I hate cooking. But now I have a better idea of what it was Richard was craving!
Mock turtle soup was an ingredient on the appetizer round of chopped tonight :)
I’m through most of season 5 of my first watch and I keep thinking how Andrew needs to try some stuff from this show. Characters are constantly talking about food, the entire story of the show is based around having family dinner, and two of the main cast from the very beginning (Luke and Sookie) run restaurants.
But I think the Turtleneck Soup that Sookie throws together for a grieving Richard in season 4. It would be outside of what’s been made on the BWB before. I’d like to see Andrew try it with both cow guts and a “normal” meat like beef.
I just googled what exactly is in Mock Turtle soup and I can't imagine any little boy eating this let alone Richard Gilmore! Brains, organs, oysters, lemon peel, hard boiled egg yolks...
"Take a large calf's head. Scald off the hair. Boil it until the horn is tender, then cut it into slices about the size of your finger, with as little lean as possible. Have ready three pints of good mutton or veal broth, put in it half a pint of Madeira wine, half a teaspoonful of thyme, pepper, a large onion, and the peel of a lemon chop't very small. A ¼ of a pint of oysters chop't very small, and their liquor; a little salt, the juice of two large onions, some sweet herbs, and the brains chop't. Stand all these together for about an hour, and send it up to the table with the forcemeat balls made small and the yolks of hard eggs.[3]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_turtle_soup
Has anyone ever looked this up?! The original main ingredients are cow brains and organs, meant to imitate the texture of turtle flesh...because this soup actually does mock soup made from turtles! Hopefully Trix made the mock mock version that uses ground beef.
This is a story from years ago when I provide onsite tech work in a niche market all over America. The work is good and pays well, but the travelling can be rough, as I put in some 100,000 miles (160,000 km) a year by car.
First the usual disclaimers: Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
It is summer and we are driving in Missouri. In the middle of the road, a fairly large snapping turtle. I bump it with the car a little. Looking at it, it had to be at least 150 years old. I have the family with me. Immediately, Beautiful Wife starts in on it. We need to stop. We need to save it. It's moving too slow! It will be killed.
Sigh. Ever my Beautiful Wife's dutiful hero, I pull over, and get out and try to negotiate the beast. He has a few scars on his old shell and body. There is a light scratch where we just bumped him. It will heal fine.
He is heavy. I cannot pick him up from behind - the balance is off and he starts to tilt forward. I have to pick him up from the front. And if you know anything about snapping turtles, they have long, fast necks and mean bites. So I can not hold this beast close to me - he will literally take a bite out of my crotch if I do. I Have to hold him out at arm's length, which is both ridiculously awkward and very hard to maintain for very far. Meanwhile, he keeps trying to snap at me and I swing him back and forth a little to throw off his aim.
Finally, I get him to the side of the road. Satisfied that he is not roadkill, I return to my car and get in to leave. At this precise moment, a very old late 1970's ghetto car pulls up and parks. A couple of lanky, poorly dressed black men hop out, collect the turtle and throw it in their trunk and leave.
To my Beautiful Wife's absolute horror I turn and announce, "Well, someone's having Turtle Soup for dinner tonight."
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Rootable underdog Evvie joined the ranks of so many other rootable underdogs in Survivor history who have been voted out around this stage of the game. The look on Xander's face after the vote said it all: "I'm going to be a Fallen Angel, aren't I?" Yes, Xander. Yes, you are.
The Yase underdogs were very popular in this subreddit, for two reasons. That is to say, because of two misapplications of edgic.
##Two Myths About the Yase Edit
First was the misuse of the Complex Tribe Theory. When there are three tribes, CTT can, at best, eliminate the least complex of the three. After all, the winner can come from a tribe that goes to tribal council over and over (as we saw with Denise from Matsing and as we're likely to see with Shan from Ua).
Second, and more important, was those pesky little turtles. Many an edgic'er was led astray by the scene with the adorable, plucky little reptiles being watched by plucky, adorable little Yase. "That's the editors telling us Yase is going to win!" people said, "It's the narrative of the season, in turtle form!"
Wrong. That was a total misunderstanding of edgic. I'm convinced that the turtle scene did more to divert edgic'ers from the true winner than anything else. You ask, "Why did they include that scene and give it so much emphasis (even a flashback later on), unless the winner was from Yase?"
Why? Because the turtles were cute and had cute little flippers, and Yase had a heartwarming reaction to the scene. Because it was great footage. Because it made for good TV. That's why it was included. It was too good not to show! It had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's winner edit.
The edit, and edgic, is about the choices editors make. The more free the choice, the more pure the edit. Showing an immunity challenge is mandatory. Showing something that's really good TV is almost a given. On the other end of the spectrum, showing a boring, irrelevant confessional from Michelle in Kaoh Rong because otherwise you'd forget the name of the season's eventual winner--that's a winner's edit.
#What the Edit Is Really Saying
So what is the edit--and the edgic--actually telling us this season? It has been telling us that a Black player will win this season. Probably Shan. The edit continues to be crystal clear on that. (I've already explained in earlier posts why the edit and logic lead us irresistibly to this conclusion, so there's no reason to repeat it here. Maybe I'll do a wrap-up after the season end
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