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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