turducken

plural turduckens

1. UScountableuncountablecookingA 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.

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

   2000, Vogue, page 134

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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.

   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, →OCLC, page 92, column 2

   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.

   1999, Meat and Poultry, volume 45, Mill Valley, Calif.: Oman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26

   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.

   2003 January 4, Jim Kershner, “Happy Turducken Day”, in The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.: Cowles Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC; 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

   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.

   2008, S. A. Bodeen, The Compound, Square Fish, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 103–104

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

   2009, Rebecca Wolff, editor, A Best of Fence: Fiction & Nonfiction, Fence Books, →ISBN, page 385

   Synonyms: chuckey