Exactly what birds are in a "turducken?" And what dish involves more than 10 birds stuffed inside each other?

Consider the dish named with one of the greatest portmanteaus of all time: the turducken

If you’ve never heard of turducken and you are a meat lover, prepare to rejoice. A turducken is a de-boned chicken (or hen) stuffed into a de-boned duck, which is then stuffed into a de-boned turkey.

Are three meats still sounding pedestrian? Well, try this on for size. 

A gastronomist in the early 19th century wrote about his rôti sans pareil. This “roast without equal” is a bustard, stuffed with a turkey, a goose, a pheasant, a chicken, a duck, a guinea fowl, a teal, a woodcock, a partridge, a plover, a lapwing, a quail, a thrush, a lark, an ortolan bunting, and a garden warbler.

Since some of the ingredients are now considered endangered, you can’t exactly whip up this meat bonanza in your kitchen. (No need to disinvite the vegetarians yet.) But you get the point. The imagination is the limit to the number of meats that you could stuff into a ballotine.

This isn’t quite the same thing, but “turducken” reminds us of one of our other favorite animal hybrid words, zedonk. A zedonk, of course, is the product of a donkey and a zebra. What then is a liger, a zebrula, or a dzo? Find out here.

If you’ve got a little extra cash to spend, you could also go for the gooducken, which is a goose stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken. 

Have any questions regarding Thanksgiving comestibles? Let us know. And what will be your main protein on the table Thursday night?

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104 Comments
Josina on November 22, 2010 at 3:37 pm

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But poor birdies…….
I think I’d be stuffed after that rôti sans pareil!

William on November 22, 2010 at 3:48 pm

“The River Cottage” did a ten bird dish – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPwXsw_vzNU

chris on November 22, 2010 at 3:51 pm

That’s sad killing all those birds :’(

This turducken sounds cool but nasty.

Kevin on November 22, 2010 at 3:52 pm

I think i’ll ask for seconds after that decahedron of a feast. But thats just me.

Edrianna on November 22, 2010 at 4:02 pm

I’m sorry, even a meat lover like me is a bit repulsed by the many birds used in the making of this dinner… X_X

fattMAN on November 22, 2010 at 4:08 pm

blah bloo blahhhhhhhhhhh

cold turkey on November 22, 2010 at 5:05 pm

try gibier for your thanksgiving, lets say lièvre for a change

I would avoid a raven by the way since it is more useful than consumption

JJ on November 22, 2010 at 5:22 pm

That’s just… wow. If you could stuff any bacon/sausage/other pig PRODUCT (not the actual pig) in there I MIGHT try it. But it still sounds gross as hell. :0

Zuber on November 22, 2010 at 5:25 pm

Dislike Dislike Dislike.
Every Bird has its own taste though i’ve nt tried all of those but this mixture??? Big NO!!!

ltshep on November 22, 2010 at 5:52 pm

Sweet Lord above, I love meat and would have lost the meat in my stomach if I read this while or after eating some! I…I…I, duh…guhhh…….
MAKE IT DIDN’T HAPPEN, make it didn’t happen DX

ilyeb on November 22, 2010 at 6:35 pm

thats a lotta birds o.o

Rose on November 22, 2010 at 6:36 pm

Eating all those birds together sounds disgusting! I’ll just stick with plain chicken, thank you very much!

me on November 22, 2010 at 6:52 pm

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Ok thats a weird combination that i am not going to try

Stephanie on November 22, 2010 at 7:14 pm

I just good with the turkey. It is funny to think about it: How exactly do they get each bird to fit? Then that’s when it sounds gross :P I hate to be the guy who gets all the birds! I know he must be hungry after wards. I wonder if anyone choked on a bone?

Adeline on November 22, 2010 at 7:28 pm

sure it taste good!! A great dish for Christmas too!! (:

andre on November 22, 2010 at 7:31 pm

I still couldn’t eat anything with ‘turd’ in the name…

Jim Allen Sale on November 22, 2010 at 8:24 pm

where’s the ostrich

Sunny Gutierez on November 22, 2010 at 8:27 pm

YEAH!!! like where is the ostrich?

Robert Young on November 22, 2010 at 8:34 pm

I’m blown away that there is a single soul alive, much less with an *internet connection* that still hasn’t heard of turducken. It’s been all over the cooking shows for the last decade! Put down the club and get out of your cave.

Vanessa on November 22, 2010 at 9:06 pm

Actually… we are having one this Thanksgiving! And yes, it does have sausage stuffing inside. Honestly, I’m stoked to try this $100 feast. All those meats are delicious on their own- imagine them together! Mmmm…

sabita on November 22, 2010 at 9:19 pm

I’d prefer one bird at a time.

D.Smith on November 22, 2010 at 9:29 pm

I don’t think so. Chicken yes, turducken No!

Cyberquill on November 22, 2010 at 10:36 pm

I see. So a turducken is a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which is then stuffed into a de-boned turkey, which is then stuffed into a non-de-boned human.

Michael Dadona on November 22, 2010 at 11:12 pm

I THINK BETTER TAKE your suggestion to have gooducken for this year (2010). Much better do not cook the goose, duck, and chicken, but roast it all. The next step is to dress it up with fruits and vegetables for balance diet menu.

THE SELECTED fruits and vegetables must contain high anti-oxidant value to enjoy for both; excitement and healthy. Everything must be started from the beginning point of preparation, the following processes, and up to the end.

HUMAN on November 23, 2010 at 12:01 am

THAT SOUNDS REALY REALY GREAT BUT THINK ABOUT PEOPLE THAT DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING IN THERE STOMACS,

HUMAN on November 23, 2010 at 12:02 am

BEFORE YOU STUFF YOUR FACES WITH ALL THAT BIRDS..OR DOES PEOPLE NOT CARE ANYMORE…

thunDaClap on November 23, 2010 at 12:46 am

Pfft bustard, that’s hilarious.

Ashley Smolnik on November 23, 2010 at 1:22 am

hahah. @ Cyberquill

Kimi on November 23, 2010 at 1:28 am

Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a Tur-key.

Anucat on November 23, 2010 at 1:53 am

wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Trichomonas on November 23, 2010 at 3:43 am

Try adding a Penguin in the mix!!!

JD on November 23, 2010 at 4:09 am

MAN! That made me HUNGRY!!!! I’m going to have to try a few of these dishes, they just sound to darn good not to.

Albert on November 23, 2010 at 5:04 am

I think I’ll have the steak.

RollingMyEyes on November 23, 2010 at 5:35 am

That’s a great point… Where IS the Ostrich??!? JUST THINK of all the animals you could fit inside of an ostrich!

Ryu on November 23, 2010 at 6:03 am

Turducken… sounds like… “Hadouken!!!”
Would be a good special move on Street Fighter – Ryu throws a turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken. TURDUKEN!!!

Zivagyus Praporshi on November 23, 2010 at 6:16 am

Ever had a jellyfish sandwich?

Vanessa on November 23, 2010 at 6:32 am

This is vile. Couldn’t Dictionary.com offer something a little more instructive and less disrespectful of our animal friends?

Say no to fowl play, go vegan.

tunafish on November 23, 2010 at 6:35 am

its like mad bird diasese, only not mad bird diasese

Taylor on November 23, 2010 at 7:01 am

Holy Christ.
i mean, with 10 birds. How big would the dish actually be?

f on November 23, 2010 at 7:41 am

i thank this picture made me felt frightening

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Larko on November 23, 2010 at 8:25 am

Thats sounds tasty!!! May have to try that!!

smoothius on November 23, 2010 at 8:25 am

i’m still waiting for the codeeroatig thats a pig stuffed into a goat stuffed into a deer stuffed into a cow. mmmmmmmmmm…tasty

mark v on November 23, 2010 at 8:27 am

This is the manliest meal ever. Not only are you eating a pile of cute defenseless animals, but your pile of cute defenseless animals also are eating a pile of cute defenseless animals.

isaiah on November 23, 2010 at 8:28 am

non-de-boned…….lol

carnivore on November 23, 2010 at 8:30 am

Made turducken for the first time last year. Amazing. Not a vegetarian in the family, though. Doing it again this year. Youtube has videos on deboning, so it’s not even that difficult. Worth the effort and a surprise for everyone. It looks exactly like a whole roasted turkey when it comes and of the oven, and then it’s a fun surprise when you carve.

Carnivore on November 23, 2010 at 8:32 am

Love my meats but the rôti sans pareil is ridiculous….. Let’s figure out more obnoxious ways to be cruel to nature shall we?!…(Wonder why these animals are extinct)

shaun on November 23, 2010 at 8:37 am

that is so sad:(

Bon Appetit on November 23, 2010 at 8:38 am

It all sounds AWESOME!!

anon on November 23, 2010 at 8:48 am

its actually kind of good!!!

garden gal on November 23, 2010 at 8:58 am

Thanks for the laughs . . . got my morning off to a great start . . . BTW, I’m w/the o.O crowd on this one! Heard of it, saw it on a cooking show and was morbidly fascinated, but not drooling at all! Happy Thanksgiving to all!

juneyah on November 23, 2010 at 9:23 am

eew thats kinda gross and i would just eat a regular turkey

juneyah on November 23, 2010 at 9:27 am

how do they fit that in there

Kate on November 23, 2010 at 9:31 am

I’ve never had duck… but despite my mild hatred of meat, I think I’d try this…

juneyah on November 23, 2010 at 9:37 am

i mean phat phat okkk

Mr. D on November 23, 2010 at 9:40 am

Good ol’ fashion cooking!

angel-of-knowledge on November 23, 2010 at 9:43 am

that’s crazy. I’ve heard of the turducken but I’ve never heard of the rôti sans pareil. Not sure if it’d be any good though. I guess I’d be willing to give it a try but still interesting stuff.

juneyah on November 23, 2010 at 9:52 am

im something yrs old hahahahaha

ecatherine orozco on November 23, 2010 at 9:54 am

aha .

Kathy on November 23, 2010 at 9:59 am

turYUKen!! :(

rawr kitty on November 23, 2010 at 10:02 am

blarghy! I looked up all the birds I wasn’t already familiar with, and zomg those poor little birdies!
Most of them can fit in your hand! D: what a crime against cuteness!…oh and animals…yeah…O.o;

Natasha on November 23, 2010 at 10:09 am

The two most interesting turkey variations I’ve heard of are:

1) my vegetarian friends’ “Tofurkey” yes that’s right, a turkey shaped tofu mold and it is a real thing.

2) the “Turturkeykey” which, apparently, is a smaller turkey stuffed inside a larger turkey. As seen in last night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother. So far as I know this is not a real recipe, but who knows, perhaps there is an adventurous chef out there…

Nathan Hunter on November 23, 2010 at 10:11 am

If I ate that, I’ll would’ve died and gone to meat lovers paradise resting on 72 oz steak with a hamburger as my pillow and a slice of ham for my blanket.

keith on November 23, 2010 at 10:17 am

this gives new meaning to giving someone the bird…

doucha mandick on November 23, 2010 at 10:20 am

i think turducken is pretty spiff, yet i don’t think i would waste that much money on a dinner when i can spread out the meats and use them for ocassional dinners

Sheila on November 23, 2010 at 10:21 am

How do they debone all of them?! Kind of defeats the purpose of turkey legs doesn’t it? I’d rather eat the turducken than the other one. I think with all that meat, you’d have leftovers for months! Don’t see too many recipes out there for leftover turducken, do you?

rebecca on November 23, 2010 at 10:40 am

Wow. I have actually read about something similar to this in a book. To be able to do it you would have to have quite a bit of knowledge as to how to season them. Chicken is pretty much a wild card, it is good with most seasonings, but the same cannot be said of turkey or duck. Wow.

ToonGirl on November 23, 2010 at 11:15 am

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

ToonGirl on November 23, 2010 at 11:17 am

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Never heard of that!-_-

Rapsody in White on November 23, 2010 at 11:33 am

I’ve had a Turducken. The duck meat makes the whole thing worth while…I am actually cooking one for our bountiful feast this week! My father used to stuff a pig into a wildboar that was stuffed into a cow. He called it a Copiboar. It was AWESOME!

Saint Luticriss on November 23, 2010 at 11:55 am

The first time I heard of a Turducken was with this informative YouTube video. I’m sure it will give some people here some great recipe ideas to try out for this Thanksgiving!

dave on November 23, 2010 at 12:08 pm

this is really awesome

stanley on November 23, 2010 at 12:11 pm

where can one get this turducken today.

cindy on November 23, 2010 at 12:14 pm

I do love meat but this i just plain nasty,if i had that it would probably put me off having any kind of meal for a long time.

Saf on November 23, 2010 at 12:46 pm

@ Mark V.

Pfft, even I know that the “manliest meal ever” is an irukandji jellyfish stuffed inside a live, PCP-addled wolverine stuffed inside an albino alpha male silverback gorilla stuffed inside a hand-strangled water buffalo stuffed inside a Jurassic kodiac bear drowned in rye whiskey.

Sheesh, don’t they give you guys some kind of handbook or something? ;)

~Saf

John Chaffin on November 23, 2010 at 1:23 pm

How can you debone something and still have enough form to it to stuff something else inside it? The article implied that it was pedestrian. If pedestrian is lacking any imagination or vitality, this sounds exactly the opposite. I would never have had the imagination to stuff one animal in another. It would seem to me, with all of the different animals stuffed into each other that there would be too much vitality.

Christie on November 23, 2010 at 1:27 pm

Completely overrated. My family bought several different varieties over a few years of thanksgiving. At first it was a novelty, but its certainly not worth the price tag. The “stuffing” is bland, and when all the birds cook together like that, you cannot differentiate between the different meats. I suppose the upside was that carving was made easier by there not being any bones… however, it was tough to get all 3 types of meat in one cut… nay, impossible.

louis paiz on November 23, 2010 at 1:33 pm

the turkey stuffed, with different kind of meats in latinoamerica is called pavo relleno it is cooked for chrismas is stuffed with duck chicken pork etc. unfotunally not every body can have such delicacy in his table. thanks

baby123 on November 23, 2010 at 1:44 pm

anyone here im new <;] hey i have a party hat on

baby123 on November 23, 2010 at 1:46 pm

couldent read all of it cause it just saaid the plain nasty eeww

Sydney on November 23, 2010 at 1:52 pm

Turducken is a favorite in Louisiana. We enjoy them at least once a year. Along with the 3 meats it is usually packed with rice dressing and the entire thing weighs about 18 lbs. so its not too big for a large gathering.

yoyo coco on November 23, 2010 at 2:20 pm

I AM AMAAAAZED!!!!!!

After all these comments I’m not sure if I want to eat one. This whole turduken thing WAS sounging tasty until I thought of an Australian version. Just think about it. Ostrich(I’m adding ostrich even if it’s not native) the emu, than koala, than duck then rabbit, than kiwi.

I don’t know. It might be worth a shot.

Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry on November 23, 2010 at 2:31 pm

So, the dish we’re talking about of 10-plus-fowl-and-fowler, was called, a– ‘Busturgoopheachiducguinteawoodcoparplolapwiquaithrularbunwarbler’?

(Or…perhaps we should use their zoological-Latin names…?)

But how does one slice it–? Or does each guest get a whole-one?

I agree he could have served a larger audience with moa, ostrich, rhea, condor … down to … hummingbird … But there’s a smaller, something I’d-read-of-somewhere, the size of a little-finger-last-joint….

(Or maybe he did– The moa went extinct at the end, of the 19th Cent.)

Reminds one of a Russian shell-doll…but edible….

It’s like the food chain all over again…. One expects this of fish.

Now if he just had a way to alternately bake and chill each layer like a Baked Alaska…

omar on November 23, 2010 at 3:17 pm

no…thats just no…
ill stick with mac ‘n’ cheese…
ugh, thats disgusting…ive eaten a pigeon before tho…it was actually pretty good…but still, no
this reminds me of that website where they were asking how leprechauns taste like, it was retarded lol
yea, im with the O.o guys
ew…ugh, i need to barf

Thoomash on November 23, 2010 at 4:33 pm

BARUUUP!

How did you know what I was eating?

Now I’m going to saute me a big plate of chicken livers!

Sorry nothing left Omar.

WALNUT on November 23, 2010 at 5:31 pm

I WOULD JUST AS SOON EAT A WADER, STUFFED WITH A GULOSH, STUFFED WITH A BOOT, STUFFED WITH A JOGGER, STUFFED WITH AN OXFORD, STUFFED WITH A SLIPPER STUFFED WITH A SANDEL, STUFFED WITH A SOCK, SANS FOOT, IN A HEARTY BEER/WINE/GARLIC SAUCE. NUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMY

kpopluv on November 24, 2010 at 6:52 am

we like it

leigh on November 24, 2010 at 7:00 am

I’m not a big meat-eater, and when my sister-in-law served her home-made turducken for (Canadian) Thanksgiving, I was very hesitant to try it, but didn’t want to be rude, so I ate it. Man, it was the best bird I’d ever had. Her sweet potato souffle was wonderful, her home-grown brussel sprouts excellent….everything was amazing. I agree it’s over-kill to eat 3 birds at one meal, but it was really quite something.

kpopluv on November 24, 2010 at 7:01 am

nice,we like it so mych..thanks

okeusje on November 24, 2010 at 7:04 am

yeah,you are right

goodshop on November 24, 2010 at 7:11 am

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abby on November 24, 2010 at 9:39 am

pretty girls have problems too you know

kplatinum777 on November 24, 2010 at 11:22 am

These are almost otherworldly dishes. I for one am not quite sure if they were conceived out of genuine desire for delectable meals, or a classic game of one-upmanship in which one has to come up with the most outrageous and expensive thing to serve at a dinner table. Ah, well…

Hopesprings on November 24, 2010 at 11:37 am

It’s cruel enough eating one bird, but stuffing birds inside other birds is a revolting idea.

L.T. on November 24, 2010 at 12:40 pm

Much easier if the birds devoured one another in the proper sequence — crapping out a feather duster,of course.

Noteni on November 24, 2010 at 3:06 pm

Turdukens are quite good, and we had a Cajun-seasoned turduken last year that was especially good.

amy on November 25, 2010 at 9:19 pm

I helped fix this yesterday and had it for the first time today…and it was the first time I’ve had duck…it was good and the duck ok, but my favorite dish by far is still the sweet potatos with brown sugar and marshmallows…wow, those were the best I’ve ever had! Our turkey was 22lbs alone so we have a bunch of leftovers. That other meal deal sounds a bit much to me…I would skip it.

laki titi on November 28, 2010 at 10:25 pm

abby, goodlooking guys have problems as well…..

Pastry Queen on December 3, 2010 at 11:24 am

I’ve heard of a dish called cherpumple. It is a cherry, pumpkin, and apple pie. I’d like to try it, but I’d have to bring someone with me to finish the rest of the pie, because I don’t like cherry of pumpkin pie. :)

lingUist geeK-sage(RP) on December 7, 2010 at 1:01 pm

How about all those stuffed birds,stuffed on a de-boned pterodactyl..Sounds good, right?

Zohan on December 10, 2010 at 1:35 am

the list can go on till you roast an elephant with whole jungle inside it… ! :(
come on ! go veggi at least that has some benefits

kholline khailly on January 11, 2011 at 1:06 am

oh, sounds gross. but i guess i’m gonna eat a lot of it if it’s cooked by my beb. :)

my beb cooks well. and i love it as much as i hate it. :P

uh. i’m missing him already. :)

liit kiki on January 11, 2011 at 1:10 am

laki titi: whoah? :P

kelle on January 11, 2011 at 7:02 pm

Wow…. I like it! I’ve tried lots of weird dishes in my lifetime…. I wouldn’t mind trying this is as well… Muahahahahaha!! YUM!

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