Meaning of gooducken | Babel Free

Definitions

A dish composed of a goose stuffed with duck which, in turn, has been stuffed with chicken.

Examples

“Suppliers of gooduckens say⟳ orders this Christmas are more than double⟳ those of last⟳ year, buoyed by the support⟳ of celebrities such as the actress Emma Thompson.”

“The must-have centrepiece this Christmas seems to be the ‘gooducken’, which is a goose stuffed with a duck that has been stuffed with a chicken.”

“One drawback: Unless you're an expert butcher, you will probably need⟳ to have⟳ your gooducken, goopheasen or other variant prepared for you.”

“Even with these enormous dishes, yet more meat lined the tables; skillets of hare with tangerine jelly, fritters of river pike, poached sturgeon with a garnish of its own⟳ caviar and even a gooducken, the extravagant portmanteau of a chicken stuffed within a duck, stuffed within a goose.”

“There are also variants such as (in America) the gooducken (a chicken in a duck in a goose), Waitrose’s popular four-bird roast (a guinea fowl in a duck in a turkey in a goose) and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s frankly ridiculous ten-bird roast – an 18lb turkey with a goose, a duck, a mallard, a guinea fowl, a chicken, a pheasant, a partridge, a pigeon and a woodcock inside it.”

“The English prepare⟳ a gooducken in which the turkey is replaced with a goose.”

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