Campbell's canned mock turtle soup didn't contain any snakes, lizards, or other reptiles. Instead, it used the meat of a whole different animal.

Since its founding in 1869, the Campbell's Soup Company has launched many notable or quirky (though usually delicious) soup flavors, like Mock Turtle and Ox Tail. It has also pulled those and ...

Turtle soup became a popular delicacy in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the dish appearing on restaurant menus everywhere. Mock turtle soup became popular as people looked ...

For the British and American consumer, there was a brief period where the tinned food isles included a now lost product – the canned form of mock turtle soup, which was largely discontinued in ...

Mock turtle soup grew its own dedicated following. The dish became so well-known it was referenced in Lewis Carroll’s original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a character named “Mock ...

But brands are stepping up and offering consumers real ingredients that are genetically modified and giving them healthier options, which is the case with canned soup. Gone are the days when canned ...

Though big-league soupmakers such as Campbell's and Heinz once sold mock turtle canned soup, Worthmore is the only company I know of that still does.

In the mid-19th century, Americans developed a frenzied culinary affair with turtle.

Although not much less complicated to prepare, mock turtle soup could be made for smaller numbers of diners. By 1882, it had become such a household staple that Campbell’s was selling canned ...

One entrepreneur, H.J. Thurston, canned turtle soup to ship out, and some local seafood canneries added turtle meat to their product line.

If you don’t want to make it, Worthmore’s canned mock turtle soup is a good bet. I spoke with Phil Haock, whose granddad started the business in the ’20s.