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nineweaving mentions that she knows someone who, for Thanksgiving, is planning to roast a quail inside a duck inside a turkey. I wonder what this would be called, a turducquel? I hit Wikipedia to find out. I am instantly distracted.Bustergophechiduckneaealcockidgeoverwingailusharkolanbler.
Aristophanes, eat your heart out.
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I do not think I would enjoy eating a turdbutt.
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It is not an invention I would like to be credited with, yes.
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"which is then stuffed with a pheasant, and finally stuffed with a quail" -- *pauses* --presumably in the opposite order?
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Possibly some fourth-dimensional rotation is involved in the construction of this dish . . .
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A quillyquacktomaturk?
But hold the radish.
Nine
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Only if it contains porcupine and ketchup.
But hold the radish.
Catullan Turkey!
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Which means you may have the chance to sample this animal. I have to admit I was rather surprised when they came home bearing quail. It was on sale. No, really.
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In which case, this sounds like a very plausible dish to precede the Mad Cake. Awesome.
I have to admit I was rather surprised when they came home bearing quail. It was on sale. No, really.
. . . Where do you shop?
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... quail? ... the fuck?
I think there was some kind of dimensional slippage there.
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In fact, it was very nice.
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Nine
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Seconding the wonder about what else you put on the pizza.
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Nine
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Not as good as Raised By Pigeons, though, which is my new standard.
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That is very good. Where does it come from?
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Yes, I will be obtaining this shortly.
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"Can I please have the mussels in tomato sauce?"
Yay.
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Good Lord, I wish I shopped where you shop. ;-)
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Hee. That's very cool.
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I still envy all of you with cheap quail, though.
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It's possible to buy 10-bird ones, I think, in the UK. Except, as you can imagine, it costs quite a lot of money.
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I've cooked a couple of three-bird versions, but I bought them pre-prepared (I would say "'cos I'm chicken," but you'd take that as a pun, so I won't).
One of these days...
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Yes!
Though it would be very difficult to set to an accompanied recitative, let alone a patter song.
It's metrical; you never know . . .
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λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεο-
κρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματο-
σιλφιοτυρομελιτοκατακεχυμενο-
κιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστερα-
λεκτρυονοπτεκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπε-
λειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγα-
νοπτερυγών
Yes.
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It's a seventeen-ingredient compound noun. I'm not sure it's possible to translate humorously and literally . . . fish-cakes with shark, dogfish, leftovers, spice, silphium, shellfish, eagle, cheese, poured over with honey, wrasse, with sea-fish, two kinds of pigeon, roast chicken, brains, grebe, dove, hare, boiled wine, dipped and crunchy with dessert on top. That might have failed at both.
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I give thanks this year that I was raised by two parents who both knew how to cook.
Best of luck to you!
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Some of those are really scary. I'm impressed. ;-)
Only turkey at my house, but it should be good turkey, at least. Da wants us to have bacon and oyster dressing, but my mother isn't going to permit it.
Your subject line has broken my Greek, BTW. ;-)
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