A Turkey Showdown
Tomorrow, thousands of students will be sitting down to a more-elaborate-than-usual family dinner, most centered around a turkey. But is the traditional turkey the best main course for your get-together, or are there better options? Three Bwog writers make their cases.
Turducken: A turducken is a fine southern tradition, an exercise in the economy of space, and one of the more controversial takes on the Thanksgiving turkey known to the Food Channel. Or more simply, turducken is a portmanteau for the contents of the dish – a turkey stuffed with a duck, itself stuffed with a chicken; all boneless, all delicious.
The next question being, naturally, how does that work, mechanically speaking? The answer I like to give involves vigorous horizontal arm pumping and some rather R-rated sodomy jokes. The truth of the matter, though, is that no matter how hard one shoved, the suppository method of stuffing the birds would never work without a substantial amount of inedible lubrication and some broken bones. So instead, one must debone their birds. Occasionally a little torque (and a SEAS student to explain how to apply torque) may be necessary to break some of the stronger connections. Then, create pockets under the skin of each bird without separating the skin from the meat and rub down with a sauce of choice. Finally, coat the cavity of the turkey with a layer of stuffing, lay the duck inside the turkey’s body cavity and similarly cover its cavity with stuffing, laying the chicken, filled with stuffing, upon that.
Tags: showdown, thanksgiving
25 November 2009 @ 3:24 PM · 14 comments
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