# To Turducken or Not to Turducken **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863 "2011-04-18T17:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/21 "2011-04-19T01:09:17Z")
Whole Stuffed Camel > **[Whole stuffed camel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_stuffed_camel)** > > A Whole stuffed camel or Camalambakicken is a satirical folklore dish consisting of a camel engastrated with a sheep or a lamb, in turn stuffed with other ingredients. > Reference to this recipe is made in the comedic novel I Served the King of England, first published in 1971 by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal as a traditional Ethiopian dish cooked for a visit to Prague by the Emperor Haile Selassie. The novel Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle contains a recipe for camel stuffed with dates, plover... > [@](#): > > The Snopes article mentions that the Guinness Book of World Records lists the recipe without actually mentioning whether or not anyone has actually eaten it: > > ``` > "The largest item on any menu in the world is roasted camel, prepared occasionally for Bedouin wedding feasts. Cooked eggs are stuffed into fish, the fish stuffed into cooked chickens, the chickens stuffed into a roasted sheep's carcass and the sheep stuffed into a whole camel." > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![theoldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@theoldman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theoldman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/22 "2011-04-19T01:56:17Z")
how about trying the Turbacon epic. a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig… wrapped in bacon: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7Xc5wIpUenQ/hqdefault.jpg "TurBaconEpic Thanksgiving - Epic Meal Time") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ) ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/23 "2011-04-19T02:02:33Z")
Start with a blue whale… ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/24 "2011-04-19T02:04:51Z")
> [@theoldman](#): > > how about trying the Turbacon epic. a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig.. wrapped in bacon: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ) Eh, needs more bacon. ---
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/25 "2011-04-19T02:28:14Z")
Y’all know you are only feeding the bipolar mania, right? This has gone from, “hmmm, I might want to give this a whirl”, to "HELL YEAH! Where all the livestock at? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/26 "2011-04-19T06:55:25Z")
> [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](#): > > Y’all know you are only feeding the bipolar mania, right? This has gone from, “hmmm, I might want to give this a whirl”, to "HELL YEAH! Where all the livestock at? Beyond that oven door lies madness… ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/27 "2011-04-19T10:21:19Z")
Turdurken? Meh. Make a humming bird stuffed in a sparrow, stuffed in a chicken, stuffed in a duck, stuffed in a turkey, stuffed in an emu stuffed in an ostrich. An Ostemturdurkarrowbird. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/28 "2011-04-19T13:09:09Z")
How about a tofurkey stuffed inside a turkey stuffed inside another tofurkey. A tofurkeyturkeyfurkey. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/29 "2011-04-19T13:48:50Z")
> [@KennerTheGreat](#): > > How about a tofurkey stuffed inside a turkey stuffed inside another tofurkey. A tofurkeyturkeyfurkey. Bananafanna-fofurkey. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/30 "2011-04-19T13:52:30Z")
This thread is inspiring me to make…reservations. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/31 "2011-04-19T14:18:36Z")
Somewhere, John Madden is salivating. ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/32 "2011-04-19T14:43:59Z")
How about a fly inside a spider inside a bird inside a cat inside a dog inside a goat inside a cow inside a horse? I don’t know why… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/33 "2011-04-19T18:00:25Z")
I just want to try duck. I’ve never seen it for sale either uncooked or at a restaurant (that I remember), and my mom says it’s bad so she won’t get it from our more countrified relatives. (For some reason, they give her food but not me. I guess I’m a guy, so I can’t cook.) ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/34 "2011-04-19T18:07:11Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > (I love that you’re discussing turducken with your therapist!) I think Freud had a thing or two to say about stuffing things into other things. I’ve had turducken a couple of times. Local cajun place makes them up. IMO if you cajun them up proper with spices and cook em right they are pretty good. I don’t know if they are to “die for” or “worth” the extra cost, but I do think they are a step up from your run of the mill turkey or chicken. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/35 "2011-04-19T18:30:38Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Somewhere, John Madden is salivating. I think thats pretty much a given. That or spraying his feet with some sorta medicine, the name of which escapes me at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/36 "2011-04-19T18:45:34Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I think thats pretty much a given. > > That or spraying his feet with some sorta medicine, the name of which escapes me at the moment. Tinactin ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/37 "2011-04-19T18:47:35Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Tinactin Tough actin tinactin! if you please (that was a joke son 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/38 "2011-04-19T18:53:06Z")
Quoth **Kozmik** : > [@](#): > > Start with a blue whale… Yes, but what do you put it inside? And in all seriousness: If you want to try making a turducken, then do so. But don’t do it for the first time as a holiday meal: Too much stress if something goes wrong. Instead, schedule a turducken day a few weeks from now, and invite folks to help out. That way, if the poultry is ruined, it’s _just_ the poultry that’s ruined, and everyone will have the fun of helping out. If it goes well, and you like the results, _then_ start making it a holiday staple. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/39 "2011-04-19T18:56:19Z")
> [@theoldman](#): > > how about trying the Turbacon epic. a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig.. wrapped in bacon: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ) This doesn’t seem very appealing. Probably fun to make but to eat not so much. No offense to the chef. ---
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863/40 "2011-04-20T01:01:13Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And in all seriousness: If you want to try making a turducken, then do so. But don’t do it for the first time as a holiday meal: Too much stress if something goes wrong. Instead, schedule a turducken day a few weeks from now, and invite folks to help out. That way, if the poultry is ruined, it’s _just_ the poultry that’s ruined, and everyone will have the fun of helping out. If it goes well, and you like the results, _then_ start making it a holiday staple. Now that is a good idea. I have already started to invite certain adventurous yet satirical people to join “Team Turducken”, one of which who makes bitchen’ margaritas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-turducken-or-not-to-turducken/578863.md?page=1)