PETA makes me smile

[Briminator]

Gotta love those wacky PETA people. They are now taking on good ole John Madden for his demolition of a turducken on Monday Night Football.

I was going to do a thread on how beer almost shot out of my nose when John Madden carved the turducken by hand, his hand, no knife just the hand. But this is sooooooo much better:

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/4615352.htm

PETA declared, "Kindhearted
Philadelphia Eagles fans were appalled to see seriously
overweight NFL announcer John Madden tear apart a Turducken
with his bare hands...

First of all I live in Philly, Eagles fans are anything but kindhearted, appalled is not a word to express the joy of watching Madden do something insane, I would use "Laughing like a hyena" it made my day, no make it my week.

Instead of giving the game MVPs "the legs of a bird raised and
killed under cruel conditions, then dissected as a game-show
prop," the group wants the announcers to celebrate with a slab of
soy.
Yeah that is going work real well, somehow I think the football players will prefer Madden's 6 legged turkey over a "slab of soy".

Oh the horror, we saw a crazy rather large happy football guy carve a turducken with his hand, granted Al Michaels looked horrified but maybe he is league with PETA. These people are completely fucking bonkers, I cannot wait to hear what Madden says on Thursday during the game.

[Siemsi]

It's so sad......PETA has become so irrational.

[I can't believe that's butter!]

Those silly PETArds.....I often go to their homepage for a good laugh.

[I can't believe that's butter!]

And let me go on record that I would be second in line to tear into a turducken. Those things look damned good!

[cuauhtemoc]

Turducken? Lemme guess: An unholy hybrid of turkey, duck, and chicken, right? Either that or a cross between a turd and a... donley? No, that doesn't sound right...

[Lsura]

cuauhtemoc, a turducken, if I remember correctly is a chicken insided of a duck that's inside of a turkey, all cooked together.


I could be wrong though.

[carrot]

Got it in one, Lsura. Turducken! (http://ismybrain.com/~jsalmon/turducken.html)

It's alright, I suppose, if you're into that sort of thing. My uncle brought one to Thanksgiving a couple of years ago.

[D_Odds]

Originally posted by Briminator
These people are completely fucking bonkers, I cannot wait to hear what Madden says on Thursday during the game.

I think Madden lost the Thanksgiving Day gig when he went to ABC. The games are Fox and NBC. That's probably why he moved his turducken tradition to Monday night.

[pepperlandgirl]

Man, I can't believe I missed it! I would hae loved to see Al's face.

[Mr. Miskatonic]

Originally posted by D_Odds
I think Madden lost the Thanksgiving Day gig when he went to ABC. The games are Fox and NBC. That's probably why he moved his turducken tradition to Monday night.

Indeed, local sports in S.F. have been musing that Madden will be home for Thanksgiving for the first time in 23 years.

[Enderw24]

A Chicken in a duck in a turkey?!? That's the fucking greatest concept I've ever heard! The only thing better would be if we could find an ostrich and bake the whole thing inside it.

[Max Carnage]

and maybe a cornish hen inside the chicken and a hummingbird inside the whole thing!

[carrot]

You guys are getting a little nuts here. What, three different birds in one carcass isn't enough?

[D_Odds]

Originally posted by Mr. Miskatonic
Indeed, local sports in S.F. have been musing that Madden will be home for Thanksgiving for the first time in 23 years. I'll bet Mrs. Madden is thrilled. :D

[anya marie]

Hey yeah? Any of you actually cook and eat it? Did it turn out well, and would you serve a turducken again?

[ElvisL1ves]

The turducken looked yummy, but Madden using his bare hands (after describing the cutting sequence with the Telestrator, of course) was simply disturbing.

He did add that there's a layer of stuffing between the chicken and duck, and between the duck and turkey, and that all are boneless.

What happened to the turkey with the 8 legs? Does ABC have a copyright on that?

[I can't believe that's butter!]

Second on the Cornish hen inside the chicken....

[Ethilrist]

Originally posted by ElvisL1ves
What happened to the turkey with the 8 legs? Does ABC have a copyright on that?
This guy with an eyepatch and a couple ravens came looking for it, and boy, was he pissed when he found out they cooked and ate it.

[Pythagras]

PETA makes me happy. They are a little bit of non-complacency in an all to sensitive world. They used to have this billboard outside of where I lived. I did not agree with what it said, but it made me happy to see them sticking their ideals out there instead of namby-pampying to the public. Go PETA!

[World Eater]

hummingbird inside a
cornish game hen inside a
duck inside a
Chicken inside a
turkey inside an
Ostrich.

All it needs is some bacon.

[glarGH]

<homer>
mmmmmm.. bacon...
</homer>


Getting a turducken would be so tasty.. I haven't been able to think of anything else since I read this.. maybe its because I'm gonna end up eating the "Thanksgiving Vegetarian Lasgna" or a "Tofurkey" with my S.O's fam.. or maybe its because I haven't eaten at all today... hrmmm..

I have the urge to buy a roast chicken and eat it like a wild beast, juices dripping, hands and face smothered with bits of meat and fat, snarling and glaring at any who approace... RARRRRR!

[Myrr21]

How the quote should have read:
PETA declared, "Philadelphia Eagles fans were appalled to see NFL announcer John Madden bare...
:eek:

See, a little editing, and they'd have my full support...

[BobbySuezQ]

I too about spewed my drink when I saw this. Aside from the fact that I absolutely love John Madden, it was hilarious.

Gotta love those PETA people.... what is it again? People Eating Tasty Animals?

:D

[E-Sabbath]

Mmm. Turducken. But there's other things...

http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1997/camel.html

Lacamelken.

[cornflakes]

Originally posted by Joe K
Those silly PETArds.... As in hoisted by their own....

[Kyomara]

Originally posted by carrot
Turducken! (http://ismybrain.com/~jsalmon/turducken.html)

Gawd. I don't know whether to drool or puke.

[Spavined Gelding]

But what about the poor soy beans? Out there in all sorts of weather, rain and heat and darkness and wind. Just as they reach maturity and look forward to a life of carefree pleasure some huge, noisy machine comes along and wrenches them from there happy home, piles them into huge steel bins where they are packed in with millions of other beans in a regular Black Hole of Calcutta, and then crushed and ripped asunder just so that John Madden has a slab of tofu for his lunch. Oh, the inhumanity of the thing. Tofu is murder.

[Hemlock]

Originally posted by Enderw24
A Chicken in a duck in a turkey?!? That's the fucking greatest concept I've ever heard! The only thing better would be if we could find an ostrich and bake the whole thing inside it.
An old Arab recipe calls for a baby camel, stuffed with a sheep, stuffed with a baby goat, stuffed with a chicken, stuffed with pigeons. Or something like that.

Tear that apart with your hands.

[Bryan Ekers]

Originally posted by Hemlock
An old Arab recipe calls for a baby camel, stuffed with a sheep, stuffed with a baby goat, stuffed with a chicken, stuffed with pigeons.[/B]

In recent years, though, the whole thing has been stuffed into a belt loaded with explosives.

[Khan]

"Churkey" would be cooler.

CHicken

dUck

turKEY

:p :p :p

[lokij]

I prepared a Turducken last year for Thanksgiving, it was delicious. The hardest part was deboning all of the birds.... it took me a couple of hours to do it but I was pretty meticulous about it. If I ever make another one I WILL go one further and stuff a deboned quail inside the chicken.. mainly because I love quail. Be advised however that these things will shed a LARGE amount of grease and liquid during the roasting. I cooked mine overnight at relatively low temperature, when I woke up there was a nice little pool of drippings in the bottom of my oven frome where it had overflowed my rather large roasting pan. The bird(s) was fabulously tender though. ;>

[Lissla Lissar]

Tofu is murder.
"Vegetables live in oppression/
Served on our tables each night/
This killing of veggies is madness/
I say we take up the fight!"

Sorry, I just started chanelling "Carrot Juice Is Murder", by the Arrogant Worms.

[Fenris]

Originally posted by Joe K
Second on the Cornish hen inside the chicken....

You guys are defeating the purpose: a Cornish hen is a chicken. It's gotta be different birds. So what we do is add a goose layer between the duck and chicken and a pheasant layer inside the chicken. Then quail and then hummingbird.

I've never seen swan for sale but I've tasted it once (like duck, but milder), but if we had one, it would go between the duck and the turkey.

And since you can buy ostrich steaks (I have...eh. A not altogether happy beefy flavor with a stringy chicken texture) I'm allowing ostrich.

So our ideal Turducken thing goes:

Ostrich
Turkey
Swan
Duck
Goose
Chicken
Phesant
Quail
Hummingbird

Of course the oven might explode. :D

Fenris

[I can't believe that's butter!]

fair enough, I'll drink to that. :)

[Kitfox]

Aren't swans bigger'n turkeys? And I'm pretty sure geese are bigger'n ducks...

And I'm sure we could fit an emu in there somewhere.

[Wabbit]

Mmmmm, emu...........

[JRDelirious]

Now, if you get some genetic engineers to use some vestigial DNA to reconstruct a Giant Moa...

And between the quail and the hummingbird ya gotta get some swallow.

...This all sounds like something Henry VIII or Nero may have had on his plate... I gotta find my copy of The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody to check...

[Smeghead]

I once saw a TV show where they took two or three turduckens, stuck them inside a pig, then sewed that into a cow. Dead serious.

By the way, I'd love to see someone attempt to debone a hummingbird while keeping the meat intact.

[Tapioca Dextrin]

Why doesn't Mr Madden just get his hands inside a Trojan Hog (http://www.godecookery.com/incrd/incrd.htm#008)?

[drachillix]

Originally posted by Smeghead
By the way, I'd love to see someone attempt to debone a hummingbird while keeping the meat intact. [/B]

Soak it in vinegar overnight

[Monty]

Brim: I'm willing to wager that there's at least one vegetarian and/or vegan professional football player.

[bdgr]

Cajun Fried Turduken......I might just have to try this.

[PhiloVance]

Originally posted by World Eater
hummingbird inside a
cornish game hen inside a
duck inside a
Chicken inside a
turkey inside an
Ostrich.

All it needs is some bacon.

...and a partridge in a pear tree. :rolleyes:

[Moirai]

Originally posted by Monty
Brim: I'm willing to wager that there's at least one vegetarian and/or vegan professional football player.

You think? My guess is that it would be very hard to acheive ideal weight and muscle mass and maintain it. I could be wrong. Are there vegans or veggies who pump iron at a professional level? Also, what about injury recovery rate?

Or is this some obscure joke about "there's at least one gay football player?"

That turducken sounds yummy. Let's go for it!

PETA are waaaaay too uptight.

[Paul in Qatar]

Anyone got a recipe? I'll give it a whurl.

Sorry I can't come over tonight I am boning a number of birds.

[Siegfried]

http://casa.colorado.edu/~kachun/tdc_recipe.shtml

That's the Illustrated Turducken Recipe page. I'd be willing to give the recipe a try; however, I have a feeling that my turkey would look like Swiss cheese after I try deboning it. I also have to wonder how much it would cost to get all the ingredients together. I better start saving now.

[Joyfulgirl]

Originally posted by EJsGirl
Are there vegans or veggies who pump iron at a professional level? Also, what about injury recovery rate?


Quick search turned up VeganBodybuilding.org (http://veganbodybuilding.org) Check out the link to Jim Morris and the links at the bottom of the page. It's certainly possible to be vegan and a bodybuilder. Not sure about professional football players, though.

As for PETA, they seem to feel that any publicity is good publicity, but "the group wants the announcers to celebrate with a slab of
soy"? <insane laughter>

[lezlers]

Originally posted by EJsGirl
You think? My guess is that it would be very hard to acheive ideal weight and muscle mass and maintain it. I could be wrong. Are there vegans or veggies who pump iron at a professional level? Also, what about injury recovery rate?

Or is this some obscure joke about "there's at least one gay football player?"



Some Vegetarian athletes:

Dave Scott: triathlete who has won Ironman Triathlon four times

Robert Sweetgall: ultra-distance walker

Edwin Moses: Olympic gold metal for hurdling

Pierro Verot: world record for downhill endurance skiiing

Estelle Gray & Cheryl Marek (vegans): world record for cross country tandem cycling

Not sure on the body builder question but I bet if you did a search you'd find one.

And for the record, I'm a vegan and think the folks at PETA are a bunch of loons who give vegetarians and vegans a bad rap.

[bizzwire]

My vote's for:

Snail Darter inside a

Spotted owl inside a

Golden Eagle inside a

Black Rhino

[singular1]

You don't really have to debone (http://www.cajungrocer.com/ekart/catalog.asp?action=displayCategory&cid=135) it!

[Orual]

Originally posted by Ethilrist
This guy with an eyepatch and a couple ravens came looking for it, and boy, was he pissed when he found out they cooked and ate it.

Thank you, thank you...

I now have an image of Odin riding an eight-legged turkey in my head...

[Haywood]

I saw what I think was a National Geographic show years ago that featured a segment about the camel stuffed with a sheep stuffed with a goat stuffed with a chicken stuffed with pigeons. Apparently the concoction made people sick because of the sheer size and bulk it took a very long time to bring all of the meats up to cooking temperature, some of the meat started going bad before it was cooked. I don't think this would be a problem with a turkducken though.

So what is next? PETOV? People for the ethical treatment of vegetables?

[I can't believe that's butter!]

Honestly, I'd like to know if PeTA is entertaining any plans to introduce a Tofu turducken.....What would that be, a Toturducken? They could use varying durometers of tofu to simulate the different meats used in normal turduckens, and that might do well, in itself, what with the bounties of flavor technology available these days. Despite all these technological advances, they could probably only use soy sauce and maybe some obscure brand of bread without ANY by-products whatsoever for stuffing to avoid making any cute little animals cry....

[Left Hand of Dorkness]

Don't know how reliable this list is, but check out [url=http://veggie.org/veggie/famous.veg.athletes.shtml]a whole buttload of vegetarian and vegan athletes, including one football player:

Desmond Howard (formerly w/Washington Redskins, now w/Jacksonville Jaguars) Source: PETA mailer

and plenty of other athletes, including:


Martina Navratilova (Retired Tennis Champion) Source: Magazine Interviews/Genesis Awards
Monika Montsho (weightlifter, 2 x runnerup GB Championships 60kg, NW woman weightlifter of the year 1991)
Hank Aaron (home run champion in major league baseball) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
B J Armstrong (US Basketball star)
Chris Campbell (1980 world champion wrestler)
Ruth Heidrich (3-time Ironman finisher, marathoner, age-group record holder, Pres. Vegetarian Society of Honolulu) (vegan) Source: personal acquaintance, also...her book--A Race for Life
Donnie LaLonde (Former Light Heavyweight Champion of the World. (Lost title to Sugar Ray Leonard)) Source: Article in San Jose Mercury News
Bill Pearl (Mr. Universe and bodybuilder) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
Jacques Vaughn (All American point guard, #1-ranked Univ of KS Jayhawks) Source: Lawrence (KS) Journal World (numerous editions)


Take it for what it's worth -- but it looks like you can be a vegetarian athlete after all.

Daniel

[Left Hand of Dorkness]

Dammit, here's the link (http://veggie.org/veggie/famous.veg.athletes.shtml).

Daniel