Meaning of turducken | Babel Free

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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.

US, countable, uncountable

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“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.”

“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. […] Broussard’s experience⟳ with the product is a little different. He and his brother grew up eating turducken.”

“Although I may never eat⟳ turducken [“Birds of […]”

“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.”

“In his black Armani tuxedo, Dad set⟳ the first slice of turducken on one of the expensive china plates in a tall stack beside him and held it up.”

“We eat⟳ turducken: a duck stuffed inside a chicken stuffed inside a turkey. The whole thing deep fat fried.”

“LET’S EAT⟳ TURDUCKEN! Uh … Let’s not. It’s stuffed with a chicken … it’s stuffed with a duck …”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“While straining to wedge a fresh slice of turducken into your gaping maw you choke to death on a stray bone and the irony of your untimely demise.”

“Can’t decide⟳? Then eat⟳ turducken. That’s a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey.”

“Significantly, the explanation of the TDK’s true purpose is provided while the man stands above a test⟳ room containing an American family: mother, father, and son are each obese, and they sit⟳ on a couch staring at a television screen and eating turducken sandwiches.”

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