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Turducken goes mainstream

Nov 27th, 2002
by Charles Kuffner.

Today’s Chron has this NYT wire story about the history of turducken, the chicken-in-a-duck-in-a-turkey confabulation that Paul Prudhomme claims to have invented. It’s a pretty good overview, with some history of stuffing one type of food into another, and they only get precious about quaint Southern folks at the very end. Good thing I just ate lunch, or I’d be hungry about now.

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5 Comments

  1. Laurence Simon says:
    November 27, 2002 at 12:40 pm

    I remember when one news producer/assistant asked if the things were raised that way or shoved into each other while still alive.

    This is why I do not watch local news, among other reasons.

  2. Charles Kuffner says:
    November 27, 2002 at 12:58 pm

    Did that guy think “There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly” was a true story, too?

  3. Greg Wythe says:
    November 27, 2002 at 1:09 pm

    I’m still holding off for the 4-footed variety of this idea. Let’s say … a rabbit stuffed inside a pig, stuffed inside a cow.

  4. Uber says:
    November 28, 2002 at 9:49 am

    Well Greggie, you couldn’t be closer to the truth. There IS a larger variety of this famous cajun dish. It’s middle eastern in nature. Picture this:

    20 whole chickens, stuffed with rice and hard boiled eggs. Stuff all the chickens inside a whole lamb. Then stuff the whole lamb inside a whole camel. Serves a friendly crowd of 80-100 people. The recipe is here: http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1997/camel.html

  5. Turducken Man says:
    June 30, 2006 at 2:29 pm

    Great Point!
    I like it when main stream media pick up on these types of things.