Thanksgiving Quiz: There's more to it than just knowing how to cook a turkey
Nobody knows who coined the word 'turducken,' a portmanteau of 'turkey,' 'duck,' and 'chicken,' much less who invented it. Louisiana chef Paul Prudhomme claims that he came up with the idea, but others say that it was the cajun butcher Hebert's Specialty Meats. In any case, the practice of stuffing ever-smaller birds into each other like Matryoshka dolls dates to Ancient Roman times.
Nobody knows who coined the word 'turducken,' a portmanteau of 'turkey,' 'duck,' and 'chicken,' much less who invented it. Louisiana chef Paul Prudhomme claims that he came up with the idea, but others say that it was the cajun butcher Hebert's Specialty Meats. In any case, the practice of stuffing ever-smaller birds into each other like Matryoshka dolls dates to Ancient Roman times.
Nobody knows who coined the word 'turducken,' a portmanteau of 'turkey,' 'duck,' and 'chicken,' much less who invented it. Louisiana chef Paul Prudhomme claims that he came up with the idea, but others say that it was the cajun butcher Hebert's Specialty Meats. In any case, the practice of stuffing ever-smaller birds into each other like Matryoshka dolls dates to Ancient Roman times.
Nobody knows who coined the word 'turducken,' a portmanteau of 'turkey,' 'duck,' and 'chicken,' much less who invented it. Louisiana chef Paul Prudhomme claims that he came up with the idea, but others say that it was the cajun butcher Hebert's Specialty Meats. In any case, the practice of stuffing ever-smaller birds into each other like Matryoshka dolls dates to Ancient Roman times.
1. First popularized by NFL analyst John Madden, what is the name of the dish consisting of a chicken stuffed into a duck, which itself is stuffed into a turkey?
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Turducken |
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Chuckturd |
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Dodecahedron |
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Turkish Kurdistan |



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