Fuddland

As seen in a recent episode of E.R., but I honestly thought the writers made it up for a laugh, feel your heart balk and watch your digestive juices head for the hills as you read about how to prepare a turducken: a turkey stuffed with a duckling stuffed with a chicken stuffed with sausage meat.

Any food that requires a stitching together with a large needle and dotton thread, or has phrases like “with another person’s help” in the recipe, is just wrong.

#1

Daisy | 2004 / 02 / 04 – 00:30

One question: why?

#2

David | 2004 / 02 / 04 – 00:39

Re #1: It’s a fair question, to which the answer must be, “To get even more meat and fat in every single mouthful than ever before”.

#3

graeme | 2004 / 02 / 04 – 01:12

I don’t watch ER but I’ve seen this before; Turducken is quite a big web topic esp. around thanksgiving on US sites, witness 6500+ Google results.

#4

bsag | 2004 / 02 / 04 – 06:45

I believe that this kind of thing was quite popular in Medieval times, but they really went to town on it, starting with a swan and ending with a canary (or something). The answer to the question ‘why?’ in that case was probably, “because I’m the King and I can.

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