I've heard a lot about them, and several places sell them around here, but it isn't something I would be interested in. I like food that is very simple, for the most part...also, not crazy about duck. My mother used to cook duck when I was a kid and I ate it, but haven't eaten it since.

I bet you can guess my answer! Oh yes many times. I personally don't like duck so I don't eat that part. It is in layers, boneless, the duck and chicken are inside the turkey. So when it is cut your getting a 3 layer piece. Most also have some type of stuffing like dirty rice or boudin, or jambalaya. Lots of textures of taste and flavors. If you don't like any of the ingredients you may not like it. I just remove the duck from mine. Think of that 3 flavor ice cream that is 3 slabs neopolitan?

I've heard of it, but haven't tried it because the combination never seemed appealing or well suited to my own taste preferences.

It must have its fans to have the popularity it does. The photo + the description don't change my mind. The comparison to Neapolitan ice cream is apt, I never liked that because of its having 3 flavors.

Funny, I was going to post and ask about tarducken last week because I saw it advertised at $6.99/lb. I read it was chicken around duck and didn't even know about the turkey. lol! Too much combo/meat for me and I'd never put the duck on the inside since it's so fatty. :p

Perfect analogy with Neapolitan ice cream!

Ewww..... where I come from the French Canadians called it boudin, but the English Canadians called it blood pudding. My grandmother from Britain was the only one who ever ate it. Congealed blood sausage.....ewwwwwww.

ravencajun provided good description. I've had it and do not like it b/c too many flavors involved. would not recommend it.

Boudin is very different from blood sausage. Boudin as you can find in Louisiana is a blend of cooked rice, onions, green onions, spices and cooked ground meats, can be pork, beef, liver, chicken, no blood at all involved, it is stuffed into a sausage casing. It is very similar to dirty rice stuffed into casings. The type that can be stuffed in the turducken is just as I described. Mostly flavorful rice. I won't post a picture of blood sausage it's pretty horrible, I would never consider eating that.

I saw frozen Turducken at Publix (we live in FL now) and was sooo tempted to buy it. But we always had it fresh (unfrozen) and it was DELICIOUS! (I'm not a duck fan either, but. . . . ) Heberts in Lafayettte, LA is the best. They have killer Boudin too.

It would be considered extremely excessive for my frugal food-budget psyche to even serve 3 kinds of meat at one meal, whether stuffed one inside the other OR side-by-side --- unless it was a mixed meat pizza topping for Sunday's homemade pizza made from the week's bits of leftover meat, or cold-cuts for sandwiches for a crowd. ;-)

I see it would cost around $85 and up (from what I found on-line), which is 8-1/2 weeks of my $10-week meat budget.

However, I would consider dipping into my emergency savings account for one if I knew it came with John Madden (former NFL player/coach/commentator) for dinner, who made them popular. Now THAT would make it worth it!

-Grainlady

Thanks Raven for clearing that up. Actually, in the pic you posted it actually looks quite yummy. Guess the word "boudin" just turned me off, but, I still learn something new every day. Old dog ~~ new tricks. Thanks.

That stuffing looks nasty in that cross-section -- I'd rather eat home-made stuffing. Plus I 'd hate to have to eat through all that dry turkey and chicken breast to get to the duck....

BUT -- I've made turducken stock/bone broth!! I save poultry bones up, and one time there was a little turkey and a little duck and lots of chicken -- hence, I named it turducken broth! (It was great!)

I have never tasted one. I've looked at them, but I don't like the idea of the SKIN being on each bird in between - especially the duck. That fat just won't render and I couldn't face it LOL.

We do want to do a version of it for ourselves though some day in the smoker.

Have you heard of a deer turkey, or turkey deer? Not dear lol. Instead of putting the duck and chicken in the turkey it's instead stuffed with venison sausage. Now that is good.

No, I have never eaten it. I would rather have my meat separate. I have never eaten duck either.

Sue

Agreed, dances_in_garden - the duck fat in the skin MUST render!

I think most of them remove all skin except for the outside turkey skin. So no duck or chicken skin involved. And just the breast meat is used. At least all the ones that I have seen. I just eat the top turkey breast because I don't eat duck so I don't know how the rest taste.

Heard of it. Seen it advertised. Never tried it. Never tried Turbriskafil either!

Wasn't Turducken a Paul Prudhomme creation?