11.12.08
All About the Turducken
No, I’m not making a turducken this year, seeing as how I will most likely be spending Thanksgiving in England this year. In one of the stranger coincidences in history, a holiday that celebrates the survival of a group of religious extremists running from persecution in England is actually NOT celebrated in England! Go figure…
But Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays even if it forces us all to remember in some small way that the American populace is descended from some of the most irritating and intolerant people in the history of the world. And the reason Thanksgiving holds a space as one of my favorites (just behind Flag Day) is this recipe. See, the turducken is the ultimate American recipe. It is a monument to both American ingenuity AND extreme gluttony at the same time!
 One turducken - all seven of the deadly sins represented… |
For the uninitiated, the “turducken” consists of a de-boned chicken jammed (without first being introduced properly) into a de-boned duck that is then forced (much against its will I’m sure) into a de-boned turkey. The resulting mess is then usually deep-fried and served with a side of angioplasty balloons.
As a chef, the only response I could come up with when I first heard about this several years ago was, “Holy shit! When can I make one?!?”
Alas, it looks like I will have to wait a few more years before I get the chance. If I were to make one of these in England and invite some of my new friends over to share it, I think they’d deport me on principle alone. Just look what they did to Scotland when they learned about haggis…
P.S. And for one of the funniest articles I have ever read on the subject of turduckens - or on anything really - please check out Francesco Marciuliano’s blog post “The Admittedly Incomplete History of the Turducken”. Just fabulous.
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Eize said,
November 12, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Cordon bleu’d to the extreme! 0.0