turducken
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Blend of tur(key) + duck + (chick)en.
Compound parts: turkey
duck
chicken
Inflected forms:
form: turduckens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dish, usually roasted, consisting of a deboned turkey stuffed with a deboned duck that has been stuffed with a small deboned chicken, and also containing stuffing.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: The main attraction at dinner this week is called "turducken." To make it, [Paul] Prudhomme stuffs a boneless chicken with a reddish sausage stuffing; the stuffed chicken is then stuffed into a boneless duck with cornbread stuffing; finally, the chicken and the duck are stuffed into boneless turkey with greenish oyster stuffing. When sliced, you have three birds and a rainbow of stuffings.
Turducken is a true niche item; a product that has its roots firmly established in Cajun country and is growing in popularity [...] Skip Shensky, managing partner of the All Cajun Food Co., says his company sold 1,500 turduckens this year. […] Broussard’s experience with the product is a little different. He and his brother grew up eating turducken.
Although I may never eat turducken [“Birds of […]
Now, I will admit that when it came time to lay knife on turducken, with everybody gathered around in avid anticipation, the result was horrifying. Instead of freeing a beautiful slice of marbled meat, my knife unleashed a steaming avalanche of something brown and granular onto the platter.
In his black Armani tuxedo, Dad set the first slice of turducken on one of the expensive china plates in a tall stack beside him and held it up.
We eat turducken: a duck stuffed inside a chicken stuffed inside a turkey. The whole thing deep fat fried.
LET’S EAT TURDUCKEN! Uh … Let’s not. It’s stuffed with a chicken … it’s stuffed with a duck …
RICARDO: [...] And is it the final stage of understanding what black matter and dark energy is that holds our turkey together for Thanksgiving, for instance? / CARROLL: That's – it's a great point because we live in a turducken universe. There's all sorts of different ingredients that are involved in the list of what goes into the cosmos we observe. There's dark energy. There's dark matter. There's ordinary matter. The Higgs boson is the final piece of the ordinary matter puzzle.
Bob: Listen, I figured out how to have our own Thanksgiving, stuffed inside Fischoeder's Thanksgiving, like a turducken. / Gene: A poultry within a poultry. It's like Inception with meat.
PAULA'S GUILT-FREE® TURTURTURDUCKDUCKENDUCKEN [...] DIRECTIONS: Stuff a turducken in a turducken in a turducken.
While straining to wedge a fresh slice of turducken into your gaping maw you choke to death on a stray bone and the irony of your untimely demise.
Can’t decide? Then eat turducken. That’s a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey.
Significantly, the explanation of the TDK’s true purpose is provided while the man stands above a test room containing an American family: mother, father, and son are each obese, and they sit on a couch staring at a television screen and eating turducken sandwiches.
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