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Mock turtle soup imitates another soup
English mock turtle soup uses ingredients such as calf’s head to imitate the texture and flavor of turtle soup. The word mock signals a substitute rather than the named animal. A dish’s title can describe what it resembles instead of what it contains.
The turtle is present in the comparison, not necessarily the pot.
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