To realise I've completely misunderstood this Christmas dish

[strawberriesplease]

Bear with me as my excuse is I'm vegetarian.

With friends who were talking about their Christmas dinner. Said they were having a three bird roast, and I really thought the birds were all stuffed into each other.

I just couldn't figure out how that happened.

I thought the same. What is it then?!

I think it's like each bird ground up into like a pate thing then wrapped around each other. Bit like a sponge roll

They are!

Nope it's different sized birds inside each other, usually boned, and then tied and roasted.

Eh?

I thought it was three birds stuffed into each other. Never heard the pate idea

They’re not ground up! There are also not just pushed inside one another as a whole bird. They’d be deboned, opened out and then wrapped around the one smaller etc

They are deboned and rolled together

No they are literally deboned and stuffed into each other

I thought it was this too…?

Fucking disgusting either way, but each to their own.

Sounds like maybe some kind of terrine or something?

I'm totally confused now

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Usually called a Turducken, you can get them from butchers.

To clarify as you posted again something very quickly- I mean they are three birds one inside the other.

I also think it’s three birds boned and stuffed into each other.

It's a bird within a bird within a bird isn't it?

It's a bit weird to be honest, and I am far from vegetarian.

In its original form it is three birds of different sizes, put inside one another from small to large.

So, deboned pigeon inside a deboned chicken inside a turkey.

The bones are removed to make it easier to carve, and cook through safely.

I can imagine a pate-stuffing type thing would also work.

Like the old lady who swallowed a fly? 😁

5 birds actually inside each other?

Why? WTAF?

I can't even envision what that would look like.

I'll stick to my quorn roast, thanks

This might help, it's only a few minutes long.

But each to their own!!!

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chestnut-wild-mushroom-stuffed-three-bird-roast/amp

It always reminds me of Tudor excess.