# Turducken - Really hard to make? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turducken-really-hard-to-make/385268 "2006-12-22T20:58:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turducken-really-hard-to-make/385268/41 "2006-12-26T18:16:15Z")
Just as another data point, Jeffrey Steingarten, food-reviewer author of _The Man Who Ate Everything_ wrote about making a (The) turducken. He is someone who could happily spend an entire day with fiddly preparations for a meal, but thought The Turducken was too tedious to repeat. Of course, he undoubtedly, um, (let’s see if I can make **Shoshana** happy) is the kind of person who’d rather full tunnel bone than go for the butterfly technique. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turducken-really-hard-to-make/385268/42 "2006-12-30T10:58:34Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] What doesn’t taste good soaked in butter? [/QUOTE] Rosie O’Donnell? [sub]…sorry…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turducken-really-hard-to-make/385268/43 "2006-12-30T16:13:05Z")
Congrats **qwest**! I made my own version **once**. It was called “Which Came First” because it was a turkey, a chicken and a couple of hard boiled eggs. The taste was good but during the process I jabbed the meat of my thumb with a fractured turkey leg bone. “Oh great,” I thought, “Salmonella delivered directly to the bloodstream! Can’t wait to see how that works out.” Having done it once, I doubt I’ll ever do it again but I like the term ‘Turducken Veteran’. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turducken-really-hard-to-make/385268/44 "2006-12-30T16:39:13Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] But can you get those [stuffed camels](http://home.tiac.net/~cri_d/cri/1997/camel.html) online? Now that says “Xmas!” [/QUOTE] What are they stuffed with? Gold, Frankenscense, and Myrrh? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turducken-really-hard-to-make/385268/45 "2006-12-30T19:40:54Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] What are they stuffed with? Gold, Frankenscense, and Myrrh? [/QUOTE] Maybe they’re stuffed with MORE CAMELS! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turducken-really-hard-to-make/385268/46 "2006-12-30T22:23:32Z")
Snouldn’t there be a goose somewhere in this [Fowl Matryoshka doll](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_dolls)? And where is **Duck Duck Goose**? ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turducken-really-hard-to-make/385268/47 "2006-12-30T22:49:11Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] You can do that, but you’d need a Cornish hen and a pheasant in between your chicken and quail, giving you a turduckencorpheail. I wonder if anyone’s tried the tofurkey-in-a-turkey-in-another-tofurkey, aka the tofurkurkeyfurkey. [/QUOTE] My husband, who is vegetarian, and I have posited that if one could purchase a tofu duck and a tofu chicken to stuff inside one’s tofurkey, one could produce a perfectly admirable Tofucken, which would also be a lot of fun to say at the Thanksgiving dinner table. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turducken-really-hard-to-make/385268.md?page=2)