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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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[angevin2.livejournal.com]

I got stuck at "Kansas City Pitmaster Peter "Pookie" Thornhill was credited in 2006 with the invention of the turdbutt, a pork shoulder (or Boston butt), inside a duck, inside a turkey."

I do not think I would enjoy eating a turdbutt.

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

oh noes.

"which is then stuffed with a pheasant, and finally stuffed with a quail" -- *pauses* --presumably in the opposite order?

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Glorious!

A quillyquacktomaturk?

But hold the radish.

Nine

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

That would be us, actually, at Household Thanksgiving, to which you are of course invited (it is not on actual Thanksgiving; details through email later).

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.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

NPR does stories on this each year (or similar)--just the way they always give the recipe for Susan Stamberg's grandmother's cranberry relish.

[alankria.livejournal.com]

I want that 17-bird one. =D

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.

[thomasfreund.livejournal.com]

I think it would be much more impressive if Major General Stanley knew the name of that dish from Aristophanes rather than just the Croaking Chorus. Though it would be very difficult to set to an accompanied recitative, let alone a patter song.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow, I lead the men of darkpaisley's family in the production of thanksgiving. Only one of them is conversant in the interior of a kitchen. I suspect we will most emphatically not have such complicated fare. Right now, I am predicting beer and disaster.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Bustergophechiduckneaealcockidgeoverwingailusharkolanbler.

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. ;-)