turducken

A roasted turducken

A sliced, sausage-stuffed turducken

Blend of tur(key) +‎ duck +‎ (chick)en.[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɜːˈdʌk(ə)n/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌtɝˈdʌk(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -ʌkən
• Hyphenation: tur‧duck‧en

turducken (plural turduckens)

1. (US, cooking) A dish, usually roasted, consisting of a deboned turkey stuffed with a deboned duck that has been stuffed with a small deboned chicken, and also containing stuffing.

   Synonym: chuckey

   • 1982 November 29, Charles Michener; Linda R. Prout, “Glorious Food: The New American Cooking”, in Newsweek, volume 100, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc., ISSN 0028-9604, OCLC 818916146, page 92, column 2:

     The main attraction at dinner this week is called "turducken." To make it, [Paul] Prudhomme stuffs a boneless chicken with a reddish sausage stuffing; the stuffed chicken is then stuffed into a boneless duck with cornbread stuffing; finally, the chicken and the duck are stuffed into boneless turkey with greenish oyster stuffing. When sliced, you have three birds and a rainbow of stuffings.

     This is believed to be the first appearance of the word in print.

   • 1999, Meat and Poultry, volume 45, Mill Valley, Calif.: Oman Publishing, ISSN 0892-6077, OCLC 909576587, page 26:

     Turducken is a true niche item; a product that has its roots firmly established in Cajun country and is growing in popularity [...] Skip Shensky, managing partner of the All Cajun Food Co., says his company sold 1,500 turduckens this year.

   • 2003 January 4, Jim Kershner, “Happy Turducken Day”, in The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.: Cowles Publishing Company, ISSN 1064-7317, OCLC 909907602; republished in Shaun O’L. Higgins, editor, Mountain Goats are My Weakness: And Other Tales of Life in the Northwest (A Spokesman-Review Book), Spokane, Wash.: New Media Ventures, 2004, →ISBN, page 46:

     Now, I will admit that when it came time to lay knife on turducken, with everybody gathered around in avid anticipation, the result was horrifying. Instead of freeing a beautiful slice of marbled meat, my knife unleashed a steaming avalanche of something brown and granular onto the platter.

   • 2012 November 16, Sean [Michael] Carroll, “Talk of the Nation: Searching for ‘The Particle at the End of the Universe’”, in NPR‎, archived from the original on 17 April 2014:

     RICARDO: [...] And is it the final stage of understanding what black matter and dark energy is that holds our turkey together for Thanksgiving, for instance? / CARROLL: That's – it's a great point because we live in a turducken universe. There's all sorts of different ingredients that are involved in the list of what goes into the cosmos we observe. There's dark energy. There's dark matter. There's ordinary matter. The Higgs boson is the final piece of the ordinary matter puzzle.

   • 2012 November 18, Lizzie Molyneux; Wendy Molyneux, “An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal”, in Bob’s Burgers, season 3, episode 5:

     Bob: Listen, I figured out how to have our own Thanksgiving, stuffed inside Fischoeder's Thanksgiving, like a turducken. / Gene: A poultry within a poultry. It's like Inception with meat.

   • 2014 November, Megan Amram, “Paula Deen’s Health-food Cookbook”, in Science… for Her!, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 35, column 2:

     PAULA'S GUILT-FREE® TURTURTURDUCKDUCKENDUCKEN [...] DIRECTIONS: Stuff a turducken in a turducken in a turducken.

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