Turducken & Other Unholy Meats
December 14th, 2005 ·
Yes, folks, behold the turducken!! I’ve only recently heard of this new-ish craze landing on holiday tables near you this season. But, apparently, scores of people have already partaken in the turducken. “What is turducken?” you might ask (as I did). Well, turducken is a chicken stuffed inside of a duck stuffed inside of a turkey. Yes, you read that right: a hybrid chicken / duck / turkey. Cook it. Eat it. Yum!
Although I know a lot of people who seem to know about turducken, I don’t know anyone who has ever actually eaten it. Have you? I haven’t. And, truth be told, I’m kind of afraid to try turducken. Generally, my only Eating Rule is this: as long as it’s not moving, I’ll stick it in my mouth. But, turducken seems a little more menacing, more creepy and more … well … meaty. I don’t know if I can handle that many different meats at one sitting. And, what’s even more disturbing? The site that has the turducken recipe also has a recipe for camlamben*. “What is camlamben?” you might ask (again, as I did too). Well, here’s the abbreviated, mouth-watering recipe:
1 whole camel, medium size
1 whole lamb, large size
20 whole chickens, medium size
60 eggs
12 kilos rice
2 kilos pine nuts
2 kilos almonds
1 kilo pistachio nuts
110 gallons water
5 pounds black pepper
Salt to taste
Skin, trim and clean camel, lamb and chicken. Boil until tender. Cook rice until fluffy. Fry nuts until brown and mix with rice. Boil eggs and peel. Stuff cooked chickens with hard boiled eggs and rice. Stuff the cooked lamb with stuffed chickens. Add more rice. Stuff the camel with the stuffed lamb and add rest of rice. Broil over large charcoal pit until brown. Spread any remaining rice on large tray and place camel on top of rice. Decorate with boiled eggs and nuts. Serves friendly crowd of 80-100.
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* See this site for more information about Camlamben.
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Okay. While the camlamben will never cross these lips, the turducken might. I mean, I can handle the multi-meat meal. But I am a bit creeped out by the shoving of one animal inside another. That is just…wrong.
eeuw. a bit too, well, biological for my liking….
Bloody hell, a whole CAMEL????? Who would eat that? I’ve said ‘man I’m hungry enough for a horse, but of course that’s figuratively speaking, I’d never actually eat a horse…
I’m still trying to absorb that camel concept…stuffed with 20 chickens too!
I might give tuducken a try but def NOT the camel…but like sid says it just seems wrong. Then again the said turkey/duck/chicken/camel/lamb whoever is dead already so they cant really object and even if they could I think they’d object more to being killed rather than objecting about exactly how they’re cooked and eaten!
I could have gone my whole life without knowing about either of those. Imagine if you went to dinner with vegetarians and you ordered that! They’d never speak to you again.
girl..the turducken is off the hook. usually down here in Weeziana…for the holidays it’s a toss between a turducken an a fried turkey. and man! when you have it stuff with crawfish dressing…HEAVEN!
Sid: I know!! It’s the idea of shoving one carcass inside of another that’s kind of creepy, isn’t it?
surly girl: The first time that I heard about turducken, I thought that it was a joke. But, then I started to see Turducken Recipes everywhere. And, my friend Bro even mentioned that she wants to eat turducken for Christmas this year.
Darwin: Yay!!! My favorite British expression? “Bloody hell.” (And, for the record, my 2nd favorite is “Bollocks”.) … Hmmm, about that horse, I wonder if Horlamben exists?? I mean, really, how far can the absurdity go? :)
Nics: My friend Esther is a vegan. She would FREAK OUT if I ever ordered turducken or camlamben in her presence.
rcknrobin: Let me get this straight … you’ve actually EATEN turducken???? OMG, you’re the first person that I’ve ever *met* (figuratively, that is) that has eaten turducken. Wow! What does it taste like??? Lemme guess … chicken? Are there any other turducken-eaters out there?
I guess I will skip eating all together today. Thanks, Stolie! You are doing wonders for my waistline.
Ack.
Berry & Hanuman: The photo probaly makes it look worse than it actually is.
By the way, for those of you keeping the score ( … um, no one???), so far the count for readers’ preference is: Turducken-3, Camlamben-0.
Did anyone see the movie Bruce Amighty? Do you remember the part where the monkey goes home? That’s what I envision when I think about turducken.
Oh sweet jesus.
I can sum up my feelings about both of those in just a few words…
That.
Is.
Just.
DISTURBING…
Really, TurDuckEn, and CamLamDen? EWWWW, and I can eat alot, but I’m getting shivver’s just thinking about it…
Meat dishes that may sound strange to you, but are delicacies in some more remote regions… Ever tried hagis? It’s a traditional Scottish dish. Find your own recipe for it, (http://www.smart.net/~tak/haggis.html#eleven) but if it’s authentic it’s cooked in a sheep’s stomach. Truly, it makes the dish remain tender and moist during the cooking process. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.
goldennib: Believe it or not, I’ve never seen Bruce Almighty.
missbhavens: Soooo … I take it this means that you are a fan of neither the turducken nor the camlamben? :)
Mitch: On this other blog, a guy actually calls it chickdukey instead of turducken. I can’t decide which name I like better …
Pegs: SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER. Hilarious movie. And, there’s a TON of Hagis in it. :) Gotta love the Scots!
I’ll even eat a couple of things that are still moving.
You are BRAVE!!!! :)