Turducken & other animals stuffed into other animals
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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Here it’s always been called bird in a bird in a bird, far less wordy
I’d have to rename that bibirbird.Here it’s always been called bird in a bird in a bird, far less wordy
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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don’t you know the birds the word
I’m partial to Tuduchi - sounds fancy!
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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It might have changed since I Iast had a three bird roast but in never involved turkey. It was always a much gamier affair and due to the long cook time drying the outer bird it was always goose.
Goose is still popular here at Christmas.
A lot of people still don't like turkey, probably because back in the day it was stuffed and cooked into submission leaving behind blotting paper masquerading as meat
Goose is still popular here at Christmas.
A lot of people still don't like turkey, probably because back in the day it was stuffed and cooked into submission leaving behind blotting paper masquerading as meat
It might have changed since I Iast had a three bird roast but in never involved turkey. It was always a much gamier affair and due to the long cook time drying the outer bird it was always goose.
Goose is still popular here at Christmas.
A lot of people still don't like turkey, probably because back in the day it was stuffed and cooked into submission leaving behind blotting paper masquerading as meat
The only geese I have ever eaten have been ones I've dispatched myself at 6AM in a bitter cold marsh with a shotgun. They are pretty lean, so they can dry out easier than farmed geese. I've only purchased and cooked on farmed duck, and I guarantee that duck was NEVER able to fly. I only cooked/ate wild ducks, that once again, I hunted. Very different animal.
The Turducken was originally from a Cajun meat market in SW Louisiana. Chef Paul Prudhomme in New Orleans popularized it first, then Emeril Legasse gave it a revival with his FoodTV shows.
It turned up in England a few years after it appeared in NOLA. I don't know how the name changed.
CD
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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The turkey version may have turned up later but the goose version of bird in a bird.. I just can't keep typing that
dates back Tudor times in the UK and has been in use at banquets/celebrations ever since.I saw the wikipedia page on it and was surprised/horrified how its history has been obliterated, completely overwritten with non-sense. Thats the price we pay for free information I suppose!
SomeStrangeMan
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You have no idea.
Also Turducken? I never eat things that start with turd.
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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I thought that too
The turkey version may have turned up later but the goose version of bird in a bird.. I just can't keep typing that
I saw the wikipedia page on it and was surprised/horrified how its history has been obliterated, completely overwritten with non-sense. Thats the price we pay for free information I suppose!
Well, of course we murcans HAD to have copied it from the UK.
CD
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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Well it's more to do with the unreliability of the sources we use. It is a fact that Bird in a bird in a bird has been in existence in the UK since Tudor times yet it would be hard to garner that from wikipedia.
The majority of Americans are descended from Europeans, a very large proportion being English so it would be rather strange if all recipes and food traditions were simply left behind.
It's as American as Apple Pi...
The majority of Americans are descended from Europeans, a very large proportion being English so it would be rather strange if all recipes and food traditions were simply left behind.
It's as American as Apple Pi...
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Yep, I remember touring the kitchens at Hampton Court, and they mentioned stuffing about anything into anything else, like a lamb stuffed in a boar stuffed in a deer - it was something of a fad.