This may seem silly, but I have a friend with the last name “Mulligan,” and we used to call her “mulligatawny,” like the soup.
Indeed, English epicures use it in preference for mulligatawny.
But it was the bishop that put his foot in the mulligatawny first.
Then she could smile thanks at him over the mulligatawny soup, or the filet of sole, or the boiled mutton, or the apple tart.
mulligatawny soup and tinned lobster will not bring you the favor of the woodlanders.
mulligatawny soup; fillet steak with mushroom ketchup; baked batter pudding.
It was a quarrelsome Company; a dragoon Company; a Company of gentlemen accustomed to gunpowder, and fed on mulligatawny.
And now you jump on me because I didnt get mock-turtle soup instead of mulligatawny.
mulligatawny soup and rice, cold lamb and mint sauce, sherry and beer.
I curse the cook who made the mulligatawny, but I forget that I ate two platefuls of it.