Turducken: American Masterpiece or Fowl Overkill?

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Turducken: American Masterpiece or Fowl Overkill?

I thought the cat food company was cute when I saw a can of Turducken for cats in the special health food for pets store. Then someone at work mentioned it. Okay, it was funny, but seriously? There was a human form of this Turducken, the mixture of turkey, duck and chicken?

Why yes. Yes there is.

Have you ever heard of Turducken? Imagine a large Turkey, roasted and delicious, and as if that weren't enough, imaging stuffing the turkey with a nice roasted DUCK! Yum Yum. An even better idea would be to first stuff the duck with a CHICKEN.

According to Wikipedia, no one knows for sure how the turducken came into being. But either some Cajun cook or some other meat selling entrepreneur in the 1980s decided it would be nice to stuff a duck with a chicken and then stuff that into a large turkey and roast them all together.

Often these Turducken are stuffed with sausage stuffing. This sounds like a gastrointestinal vomit job to me. Although, foodies and gourmands everywhere are clinging on to this new American delicacy, the Turducken.I think the Turducken is the perfect example of America's lust for overdoing a good thing and always wanting MORE. Someone told me yesterday that their family fills their seasonal Turducken with crispy crispy bacon.

Now, personally, I may be a bit daffy, but I don't care for duck. I did not like the amount of dark meat, oil, and gamy taste of the roast duck. I've had duck three times and I can fairly say I don't care for it. Now, I'll chicken and turkey up the yin yang, but only white meat, and the drier the better. But I would not eat a Turducken.

How about you? Do you do Turducken?

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I want to eat this someday XD
- 11/19/2009 8:50 PM
- osmundaregalis@xanga (message)
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My private music instructor is making one for thanksgiving... It sounds kinda intense...
- 11/19/2009 8:54 PM
- nodnarbassoon@xanga (message)
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I think I just puked a little.
- 11/19/2009 8:54 PM
- iStephanieMarie@xanga (message)
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It looks so beautiful and nom-worthy. I don't like duck, but I can learn to love it if it means I can experience eating turducken one day.
- 11/19/2009 9:07 PM
- salvatruca_stalking_havok13@xanga (message)
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Not sure where this originated either, but this, to me, is what makes this country great. Americans love nasty food, I love nasty food. Nasty in the sense of a big nasty juicy burger with bacon, a fried egg, and crispy onions. Nasty like deep fried snickers bars at the state fair. Nasty like that huge steak and cheese sub you get at baseball games in philly. mmmm gettin hungry now for some greasy food!
- 11/19/2009 9:21 PM
- ds61533@xanga (message)
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-puke-
- 11/19/2009 9:36 PM
- fried_ryce@xanga (message)
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never heard of it and it doesn't sound at all appealing to me.
- 11/19/2009 9:40 PM
- sarahflorida1085@xanga (message)
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I've had it once. It was delicious.
- 11/19/2009 9:53 PM
- Werewolf@mancouch (message)
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@osmundaregalis@xanga - I've made this before, and it's gross. I mean, sure, nice to try it. It's nice to see what a Yak tastes like too I suppose by that logic, haha.
But yeah, this is a bad idea. It's like how it sounds good to take every food you like and pile it together and then deep fry it with bacon wrapped around it; but really... that's just disgusting. :)
Turducken is kind of like that.
- 11/19/2009 10:26 PM
- chow (message)
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@ds61533@xanga - "big nasty juicy burger with bacon, a fried egg, and crispy onions."
Okay now THATS a tasty burger.
- 11/19/2009 10:28 PM
- chow (message)
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Its sort of big in Quebec I have heard. My brother in law (French Canadian) made this for a thanksgiving once... no one really cared for it.
- 11/19/2009 10:31 PM
- karmavore (message)
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@chow - haha yeah that is some good stuff! I think it's Peruvian
- 11/19/2009 10:36 PM
- ds61533@xanga (message)
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I want!
- 11/19/2009 11:05 PM
- xpika1x@xanga (message)
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I saw one that had each part wrapped in bacon I wasn't around for Neil Armstrong walking on the moon but I imagine the joy I felt after seeing the turbaconducken would have been similar.
- 11/19/2009 11:10 PM
- KevtheMoron@xanga (message)
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You don't like duck??? But it's so delicious!
I wouldn't really want this, except to say that I'd tried it.
- 11/20/2009 12:03 AM
- just_the_average_jane@xanga (message)
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mmmm, i can't wait to try a turducken! mine would be with regular stuffing. the pieces would be just a little of each part put together to make a reasonable sized bite. i want to see what the combination of flavors tastes like.
- 11/20/2009 12:12 AM
- divinelycomposed@xanga (message)
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*shudders a little*
- 11/20/2009 12:13 AM
- arenfro@xanga (message)
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i seriouslt don;t get this american obsession with food overkills. nobody sane would ever eat that or a huge chickenbaconmegabeef burger or some other mega food. like seriously...
- 11/20/2009 7:12 AM
- kaos_calle@xanga (message)
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I've never tried it... wonder how hard it is to cook! One of my friends has one every year, and another one of my friends is going to try and make it himself this year (usually they're store-bought). It's so weird that you like poultry the drier the better, I hate dry meat! Well, unless it's supposed to be dry, like in pork song.
- 11/20/2009 8:11 AM
- black_lie@xanga (message)
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- 11/20/2009 9:56 AM
- ab112112112@xanga (message)
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Hey, I can go you one better. A couple of years ago, my local Whole Foods store was giving samples of Turduckenail -- quail inside chicken, inside duck, inside turkey. Tasted pretty good.
- 11/20/2009 11:27 AM
- chocolatescifi@xanga (message)
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I'm gonna have me some turducken this Thanksgiving! I'm looking forward to it :)
- 11/20/2009 12:34 PM
- sugar_mama@xanga (message)
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I am not too sure about turducken but I love roast duck and chicken. I may try it someday.
- 11/20/2009 1:44 PM
- Charmaine_Lim@xanga (message)
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I've tried it before and it's delish! I don't normally like duck but between each layer we put stuffing-not sausage stuff then a layer of blanched spinich drizzeled with butter and garlic.

I make my own version for Sunday dinners at time and just put a de-boned cornish hen inside a chicken and the different layers are awesome!
- 11/20/2009 4:38 PM
- BEAUTIFULCINNAMONQUEEN@xanga (message)
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i'd try it haha
- 11/20/2009 7:00 PM
- ArtByV@xanga (message)
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