# We're having Turducken! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590 "2008-11-26T18:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/21 "2008-11-27T14:26:41Z")
Has anyone ever tried making a turgoosen? ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/22 "2008-11-27T17:37:42Z")
No but my legend of a dad has bought one for Christmas this year, I’m about as excited as the time I got a Spiderman outfit for my 7th birthday! Any ideas on the gravy? Just a standard de-fat, de-glaze with wine and stock situation? The turgoosen has apricots and some other stuff between the layers so wondering if it needs anything else in there, maybe a hit of cranberry jelly or some apricot jam perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/23 "2008-11-27T17:47:35Z")
I hate to be the one that points this out, but I’m not sure I could ever eat something that had t-u-r-d as the first four letters. Whose clever marketing idea was that? ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/24 "2008-11-27T17:59:59Z")
No shitake mushrooms for you then! Me, I’ll eat anything if it tastes good - who cares what it’s called! ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/25 "2008-11-27T19:15:34Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Has anyone ever tried making a turgoosen? I hear it can be greasy. Come on somebody had to say it ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/26 "2008-11-27T20:09:53Z")
> [@psycat90](#): > > We’ve had turducken for Thanksgiving twice. 4 or 5 years ago, and last year. My husband ordered them from [cajungrocer.com](http://cajungrocer.com), so all we had to do was thaw and cook. No tips for cooking really, other than just keep an eye on it, it might be done before expected. > > They are really tasty. It’s just…a whole lot of…meat. Which I guess you really should expect. Yep, that’s where today’s came from. I saw it a few days ago just after it arrived. That thing is huge! And I don’t care if it’s horrible for me. It’s not like I’d eat it every day. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/27 "2008-11-27T20:40:01Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Come on somebody had to say it And I’m glad that you did. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/28 "2008-11-27T20:51:47Z")
Pfft. I won’t eat anything that contains fewer than [12 different birds](http://www.vulturedroppings.com/droppings/the_true_love_roast_move_over_turducken_theres_a_new_bigbird_in_town/). ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/29 "2008-11-28T06:07:04Z")
> [@FlightlessBird](#): > > Turducken’s are so last year. Now everyone’s doing [Turbacoduckens](http://blog.rifftrax.com/2008/11/24/happy-thanksbacon/). My God, it looks like somebody skinned Cthulhu! > [@Atomic Flear](#): > > A single serving of turducken has 1,639 calories, 107.2 grams of total fat, 577 milligrams of cholesterol, 539 milligrams of sodium and 156.9 grams of protein. I actually gasped aloud in horror. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/30 "2008-11-28T18:09:45Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > They’re awesome. I’ve always wanted to try making one at home, but I’m intimidated by the de-boning required. I’m a fairly accomplished cook in some ways, but when it comes to knife skills, I might as well be wearing a hockey mask. > > They sell them frozen at Byerly’s, but I can’t bring myself to pay for a prepared bird. It hurts my pride as a chef. Let us know how it turns out. If you have a good butcher, they can do the deboning for you, then save the bones for stock. I have told my husband that I HAVE to do a turducken on the Big Green Egg for next year. With sausage and apple stuffing, so it has four meats in it. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590/31 "2008-12-04T17:20:02Z")
I totally forgot to come back and update everyone on how the turducken was! Our weekend was crazy, because my sister got the stomach flu on Wednesday, so with her being our only guest, we thought it was prudent to move Thanksgiving to Friday. Anyway, the meat was delicious…moist, flavorful. If you love duck, I would highly recommend it. If you are just a fan of turkey, though, I’m not sure the turkey meat itself was any better than the brined turkeys we usually make. The one thing I was disappointed in was the stuffing. We ordered the sausage & cornbread, and it was kind of unappetizing to me. The sausage was packed in hard, and was very pink in color…not like the sausage I am used to. And it was not mixed in with the cornbread. It was like a hard layer of sausage, a layer of moist cornbread crumbs, then the chicken, duck, and turkey layered on top. Luckily, I had decided to make bread stuffing, just because everyone likes it so much. I don’t think anyone ate any of the other. Now I have about 10 pounds of meat I’m trying to use up. Any suggestions? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-turducken/474590.md?page=1)