The turducken cannot hear the turduckener
For Christmas we are eating a turducken, a Cajun dish in which a duck is shoved into a chicken which is shoved into a turkey. Beaks and bones have been removed (though a beak would have come in handy during the shoving).In between the discrete fowlic elements is slathered a cornbread stuffing. Eating a turducken is like slicing through three-layered Neopolitan ice cream, except with birds.
Because our friend Eric is joining us, and because Eric actually raises falcons, we were hoping to surprise him by adding his falcon to the mix. The integrity of the meter would be maintained if the resulting dish was a turdalcken, and the configuration would be duck -> falcon -> chicken -> turkey. If we can get it together in time, we might be able to surprise Eric with this new tradition.
"This tastes like -- Oh My God!" he will say. "It's my Charlemagne!"
If we had more time, we might have been able to prepare a turdalckenelope, turdalckenelopiraffe, or even a turdalckenelopiraffephant, but Christmas shouldn't be about complexity.
See also: The Second Coming
posted
by Marty Barrett at Thursday, December 20, 2007
1 Comments:
Oh my goodness - your list of possible variations had me laughing out loud. Not the usual "I'm laughing INSIDE" that I do while reading your hilariousness.
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home