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We're not quite in medieval times yet, but the Yorkshire Christmas pie, which might well deserve its own article, pushes the turducken timeline back about a century before the rôti sans pareil.
Also, I wasn't able to incorporate this little tidbit in the article, but it's too good to pass up. Grimod de La Reynière cites the following humorous little tale from Les Étrennes de la Saint Jean, given below:
Il y avoit une fois un honnête Boucher, qui avoit bien plus d'argent que d'esprit, duquel il fit l'usage qui s'ensuit. On l'avoit invité de faire une Galanterie à sa Maitresse ; il rêva donc si long-tems, que le Mardi-Gras arriva ; comme il n'y avoit plus de tems à perdre, il imagina de lui envoyer un Bœuf, dans lequel il y avoit un Cochon, qui renfermoit un Veau, où étoit contenu un Mouton, où l'on avoit mis un Poulet - d'Inde, lequel contenoit un Chapon du Mans, garni en dedans d'une Bartavelle, où se trouvoit un Ortolan ; & ainsi toujours en diminuant, l'un dans l'autre, jusqu'à une petite Moviette, dans laquelle , pour finir, il avoit écrit un Billet de Déclaration, en ces termes : "Si le contenu du présent Billet est agréable à Mademoiselle, je préfererois la Moviette à l'Ortolan, Perdrix, Chapon, Dindon, Mouton, Veau & Cochon, & je m'estimerois plus heureux que ce Bœuf gras."
Les Étrennes de la Saint Jean. 1751. "Galanteries nouvelles d'un Marchand Boucher à sa Maîtresse." p. 122-123. [1]
Also, could someone more familiar with English cooking flesh out the paragraph on three-bird roasts? 198.189.164.204 ( talk) 19:49, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
The Turducken is now widely available in canada, so the last line of the first paragraph of this article needs to be changed, since it is no longer a dish only available in the Southern US. See http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=1039709 for evidence of it's availability in canada. Mrleaffan ( talk) 17:33, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Three-bird roasts are sold by major UK food retailers - Morrisons, Marks and Spencer, Aldi for three. That's "widely available" in my book. 87.244.92.217 ( talk) 12:08, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the popular introduction of the Turducken---long before John Madden--during the annual Thanksgiving broadcast of NPR's Morning Edition when it was hosted by Bob Edwards. Broadcast annually since 1993, was a fantasy "pot-luck" dinner hosted by Bob to which the invited Julia Childs, Wolfgang Puck, Meta Heater, Craig Claibourne and Paul Proudhomme. Each brought a course with the piece de resistance being Proudhomme's Turducken. Here is a link an NPR page for one of the broadcasts which, unfortunately, I was unable to play. Perhaps it is no longer live now that Edwards no longer hosts the show. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=857578---- Gjpwhite 22:27, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
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I'm not sure I believe the Osturducken--as far as I can tell, there's a lot of talk around the net about it, but no pictures or direct evidence that this has ever been done. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.143.123.87 ( talk • contribs)
The osturducken, pigturducken, Churkendoose (chicken, turkey, duck, and goose), qua-duc-ant —quail (quail, duck, and pheasant), Roast a l’Imperatrice - all get mentioned in articles but I have yet to see evidence that they are actually produced enmasse. Articles also mention the ancient Roman tetrafarmacum.-- Wowaconia ( talk) 17:49, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
For that matter, has anyone ever heard of a successful Osturduckencorpheail? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.20.192.87 ( talk • contribs)
I think an ostrich would be a couple orders of magnitude too large to be stuffed with any other living bird, with the possible exception of other saurian monsters such as the cassowary or the emu... and then -those- would still be too big to fit a turkey into without it rattling around inside.
I think there is a lot of inaccuracy here and it should really be under Three Bird Roast, a turducken is just a portmandeau of its constituant birds, like gooducken. -- BMT86 09:58, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
I unlinked chimerical, but if anyone believes it ought to be relinked, I recommend aiming it at the wiktionary, not the disambiguation page. If you just want to copy-paste it, here it is: chimerical. -- Tiresias BC 06:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
A special on the History Channel about meats just said that, in Roman times, a version of layered cooking existed which went even farther than the Turducken (chicken inside duck inside goose inside pig inside cow). I don't know any details, but this is perhaps something that should be researched/mentioned. If nothing else, it contradicts the stance presented in the article that layering can only be traced back to the Middle Ages. Here's a link I found fairly quickly, which mentions the same thing: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/food/richfood.htm Hossenfeffer 06:29, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
My web logs tell me that this paged linked to my Easter Turducken post, thanks to someone named Fabartus (rev 31 Aug). Not being much of a Wikipedia editor, I'm not sure the link belonged there, but the explanation of its removal confuses me. It was removed on 20 Nov by "70.149.186.145" who claimed that (s)he "removed unrelated music link, inactive links, and ad driven links". Since my Easter Turducken post was none of those (though the page was down briefly on 20 Nov), I wonder if this removal was accidental. WWordman 15:10, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
This article ought to be part of a bigger one on multi bird roasts. This type of thing has been done for centuries in England (and doubtless elsewhere) with game birds, you simply place the smallest into the next smallest bird like a Russian doll. I would say almost obvious, not novel. Certainly far from uniquely American as the article suggests. The ugly name is nasty, but like other mixed breed names, always attracts journo types who like playing with words in headlines.
-- 66.109.193.44 21:07, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
maybe just remove the quote from the top, because everything after that looks more pro.
This comment belongs to talk untill ref is found.-- Hq3473 03:22, 25 November 2006 (UTC) (Just a brief note: This type of recipe was apparently known at banquets in medieval times. There are references to swans being stuffed with other birds, and quails have been used as the smaller bird. Sorry no references to hand, I'll come back later)
Some anonymous editor keeps deleting mentions of turducken in popular culture. Why? Lots of other articles have pop culture sections, why shouldn't turducken? And it's not like the list was becoming unwieldly. -- Htmlism 15:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Please stop removing "On the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, he remarked on thanksgiving eating habits by saying 'How fat are we getting when we look at a turkey and say that's not enough?!", I know for a fact that he said it on a day or two before thanksgiving. I don't know how to do refrence links so could someone else put it on. You could probibly find it on www.nbc.com/leno.
Um, why does it mention michael moore as one of things sarge stuffs the birds in? hes a real person and not a turkey. 162.83.164.35 21:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
According to the reference article. John Madden DID NOT invent the turducken as claimed within this section. It may be at least more accurate to state that he popularized it. -- 216.83.189.165 ( talk) 17:58, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
I think this statement needs some reworking: "John Madden...presented a turducken to the viewers, then began carving it with his bare hands." How does one "carve" something with their bare hands? Maybe you could carve it if you had BEAR hands, but not BARE hands. Now, Wolverine, he could carve a turd-duck-hen with his bare hands. But they're not really hands, anyway, they're adamantium claws. So unless John Madden has some adamantium claws I'm not aware of, this needs to be rephrased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.42.223 ( talk) 20:45, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
With that said, is there a chance that one of you turducken aficionados could take a cross-section photo the next time you prepare on of these delicious looking beasts? Alas I have not been able to have one yet (and can't cook worth a damn, this looks like an advanced dish). -- A Good Anon 01:51, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
According to Black Table, this was once a reference: http://www.blacktable.com/turducken031217.htm. I don't see it in edit history/or any discussion about it. (Was it here and deleted?). I think it would make a better EL than a ref, but I do not know much about turducken.- Cindery 23:26, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Probably for good reason, too. What I wanted to fix is "commerical", toward the end of an early paragraph. (Please delete this once it's fixed.)
Regards, nb Nikevich 00:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Completely fake. The only reference presented for this section bears no mention whatsoever of emus being used for food, left alone 'emuturducken'. A google search presents only a handful of hits, all of which refer back to this article. I'll delete it. If anyone objects, feel free to reinstate it and provide some better references and/or reasoning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chaos95 ( talk • contribs) 06:05, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I don't have time to edit this right now, but I just want to point out that we need a reference to gluttony here. For lots of folks, just mentioning Turducken provokes a gag-reflex -- not so much because of the flavors -- but because of the orgiastic excess. I'll try to add something once things calm down in a couple of months, but it would be even better if some else could take care of it by writing a sentence or two sooner (especially before Thanksgiving!)!
Orgiastic Excess, you got it in one, that's exactly how I feel about Turducken. It's ridiculous. -dhymers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.164.248.143 ( talk) 15:57, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
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Just stumbled across this after reading the word online and having never heard about it. Fuck this sounds disgusting. No wonder there is an obesity epidemic in the US. This article should be deleted. Fuck you very much. 1.125.48.144 ( talk) 09:22, 25 December 2015 (UTC) I wouldn't go as far (or be as vulgar, I hope) as the above comment but I must say the whole collection of recipes mentioned here made my gag reflex kick into high gear (block that metaphor!) It didn't surprise me to read that this originated with the Romans, never known for the delicacy or restraint of their culinary choices. Or to put it another way, this is the best argument I've ever heard for becoming a vegetarian. Euuuwwwwww! OofyProsser ( talk) 19:59, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
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I removed from the Nutrition section the passage that read:
The link provided in the footnote does indeed refer to a recipe and component birds. The URL http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Turducken/Nutrition.aspx leads from http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Turducken/ to the detailed nutrition information for that recipe. -- Horse Badorties ( talk) 02:31, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I agree. I don't know how I missed that but you are correct this information is dubious. As stated before, I see no point to adding this nutritional information to begin with, even worse the way it is presented is misleading. The recipe is very POV because it is one website's take on the dish, and the portion size is not appropriate. On top of this, the nutrition information is completely against the Wikipedia policy WP:Original Research-- Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC ( talk) 06:35, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
A lot of "junk" seemed to be added in this section today. I'd like to see references for these, otherwise I think they should be removed because some of them sound like nonsense, which were added by unregistered editors.-- Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC ( talk) 23:04, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Doesn't it bother anyone that the name begins with "Turd". And it's not even in the order of the layers. Proper order: TURkey, stuffed with CHicken, stuffed with dUCK = TURCHUCK. It should be called a Turchuck. 205.174.22.26 ( talk) 02:01, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Turdcock. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnmarkaurelius ( talk • contribs) 23:23, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Admittedly, i only skimmed this article as it's unbelievably technical. But alas, there seems to be no clear explanation as to what turducken is. I can only imagine it is some combination of turkey and duck. 76.106.33.90 ( talk) 03:02, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Though detailed, nothing in the pop culture sections amounts to much more than "the turducken appears occasionally in popular culture." It seems far too trivial for inclusion here. I propose removing it, though I see above there may be some strong opinion against that. Please comment. Cmprince ( talk) 03:17, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
These pop culture references are deeply, no shallowly, trivial and do nothing more than add to the seeming idiocy of this article —which seems necessary to keep, since stuffing animals with other animals before cooking and eating is a recurring idea of people perhaps bored with life. Indeed, it seems based on an old-school cultural anomaly stemming from a foolish desire to conquer nature in an ostentatious manner. Or something. Seriously, even if you love the article and the object of culinary desire, those references lower the level of discussion. Actio ( talk) 02:27, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
The current link to the BBC yields a 404, and a search of the site does not reveal the linked page. An alternate, also UK link is http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-502605/It-serves-125-takes-hours-cook-stuffed-12-different-birds---really-IS-Christmas-dinner.html which discusses the funky tradition in detail.Guavagirl 04:47, 23 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guavagirl ( talk • contribs)
"A traditional Bedouin ceremonial feast features a roasted dinner of eggs stuffed into chickens stuffed into a goat or lamb stuffed into a camel. Having never seen this dish and there being a shortage of camels in Maine, the recipe won’t be included here."
Reference - http://www.portlandphoenix.com/food/other_stories/documents/05122925.asp
Non copyrighted Re-write:
Other multi-animal roasts are known to exist. One Bedouin ceremonial tradition involves a camel stuffed with a goat or lamb, stuffed with a chicken, stuffed with an egg. For lack of a proper name, we will go with Cam-go/la-chi-gg.
This would be a rather interesting additional thread to this article. Sorry for the techno crudeness, this is my first wiki interaction.
--polishsausag Polishsausag ( talk) 16:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Reference [7] on this page may be cyclic; the content of the referenced link shows strong signs of having been duplicated from an earlier version of the Wikipedia article. Hyphz ( talk) 16:44, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't see why it says the outer Turkey is de-boned. That may be the cause, but not always, and not even in the picture shown at top (unless they somehow removed the bones, while leaving the skin intact). -- Rob ( talk) 03:46, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
This evening I was served Turducken for the first time and after a near-fatal ingestion of toxic substance, I came here to wikipedia to find out if there was any possiblity that I might have been warned about the presence of toxic material in the Turducken. I found no such warning here, and believe the article should include mention of the fact that at least in some commercially-prepared Turducken, the internal organs such as liver, heart, kidneys, gizzards and testicles are included in the "stuffing", so the notion that it's a simple matter of a bird within a bird within a bird is inaccurate. The foul, inedible and toxic organs of these dead animals are also included in the recipe. Luckily I survived as I have a well-developed gag-reflex and was able to spew the foul stuff out of my mouth before I actually swallowed it, but the next person may not be so lucky. I think a warning to anyone foolish enough to try to eat this gastronomic frankenstein ought be be given so as to provide unwitting gluttons at least a fighting chance at survival. Jonny Quick ( talk) 06:44, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
This warning sounds less like a warning and more like you didn't like something so you are saying to warn folks of a toxic substance without much proof of such substance. -annonymous 6/2/2012 2:45 AM EST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.64.5.105 ( talk) 06:46, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Should be changed to "body cavity". The birds' viscera have been removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:1280:21EA:ECE7:8D0C:C672:4B45 ( talk) 11:32, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
This isn't a traditional English term. I'm English, 60 years old, and I've never heard of it. There is a tradition of cooking one bird within another but these ridiculous American neologisms are never used, even by restauranteurs or marketers (as potential customers would never have heard of them). Commercial three bird roasts sold by supermarkets are duck, chicken and turkey. -- Ef80 ( talk) 20:25, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Why does this section have an "In physics" paragraph? While I highly value the field of study, I wouldn't categorise it as a "popular culture" topic. May need to move this part? FiReSTaRT ( talk) 15:47, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
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