Turtle Soup (Noun)
Meaning
Soup usually made of the flesh of green turtles.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
Examples
- Turtle soup was once considered a luxury dish and a status symbol among wealthy people in Europe.
- It was at a local eatery where we got a taste of authentic turtle soup.
- My grandma remembered fondly having turtle soup with herbs for its purported healing benefits when she was sick as a child.
- Today green turtles are listed as an endangered species which brought calls for ending turtle soup on many restaurants menus worldwide.
- Most supermarkets near us usually run out of green turtles or fresh turtles the first few days every week hence unable to cook up new stocks of their infamous turtle soup dish that time