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To realise I've completely misunderstood this Christmas dish

159 replies

strawberriesplease · 13/12/2022 22:52

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.

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luxxlisbon · 13/12/2022 23:09

strawberriesplease · 13/12/2022 22:54

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

Nope, not like that at all.

NatalieIsFreezing · 13/12/2022 23:10

I'm an enthusiastic carnivore but I have no desire to try one of these. Let alone anything whose name begins with "turd..."

MarmiteCoriander · 13/12/2022 23:10

A relative lived in the middle east for many years and in their kitchen, they had a recipe card/flag thing hanging with a recipe for stuffed camel. From vague memories it included stuffing boiled eggs into a chicken, stuff the chicken into a goose, stuff the goose into a sheep, stuff the sheep into the carmel.

A turdurken/3/5 bird roast is a real thing and none of it is a pate 🙄 ! I agree that it generally means a de-boned meat rolled/stuffed inside another.

ThinWomansBrain · 13/12/2022 23:14

sounds foul

Wiennetta · 13/12/2022 23:15

Absolutely foul.

FallopianTubeTrain · 13/12/2022 23:20

You open up each one so it's flat and debone it, then put one on top of the other in size order, usually with some sort of stuffing or pate between each layer, then roll the whole thing into a log, tie up with string and roast. Looks like a rolled pork joint when complete.

Or you can do as above but leave the legs and wings on largest bird then stitch it up at the end to reconstruct it as a bird shape with layered many bird stuffing.

Either way it takes about 3 weeks in the oven due to density!

RampantIvy · 13/12/2022 23:21

Don't you mean fowl? 😁

LeaveIt · 13/12/2022 23:21

Completely fowl 😂

IrmaGord · 13/12/2022 23:22

My FIL used to do the 5 bird roast. It's nicer than it sounds and I think he used to put stuffing in between some of the layers. Definitely not ground up meat.

Soakitup37 · 13/12/2022 23:22

I mean a v quick search online would answer this confusion.

MaggieFS · 13/12/2022 23:23

bellac11 · 13/12/2022 23:03

It always reminds me of Tudor excess.

Yep, me too. My coq is bigger than yours and all that.

KrisAkabusi · 13/12/2022 23:24

I've had a seven bird roast from Lidl before. Partridge, quail, pigeon, pheasant, duck, chicken and turkey.

sueelleker · 13/12/2022 23:34

NatalieIsFreezing · 13/12/2022 23:10

I'm an enthusiastic carnivore but I have no desire to try one of these. Let alone anything whose name begins with "turd..."

Tur(key)duck/hen

villamariavintrapp · 13/12/2022 23:34

What an undignified end to their lives..

Banjoman · 13/12/2022 23:40

villamariavintrapp · 13/12/2022 23:34

What an undignified end to their lives..

As opposed to being eaten separately?

Do they know if they’re going to be a Christmas dinner or McDonalds nugget?

AccountCreateUsername · 13/12/2022 23:41

Yes this is🤮 for anyone vegetarian. As an aside, I eaf land birds and water birds shouldn’t be combined, so duck / goose /?swan OR chicken / partridge / songbird or whatever 🤓

AccountCreateUsername · 13/12/2022 23:42

Read it somewhere

latetothefisting · 13/12/2022 23:44

Banjoman · 13/12/2022 23:40

As opposed to being eaten separately?

Do they know if they’re going to be a Christmas dinner or McDonalds nugget?

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This made me laugh!

For everyone saying it's disgusting, how is the concept any different to pigs in blankets or similar?

Wronglane · 13/12/2022 23:46

Why the fuck would you think it would be ground up into a pate like a sponge roll. That’s really weird

TheOnlyBeeInYourBonnet · 13/12/2022 23:47

You'll love Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's TEN bird roast, then!

steff13 · 13/12/2022 23:47

Here people do turducken, a turkey stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken. 🤢

villamariavintrapp · 13/12/2022 23:47

@Banjoman I suppose not, but it seems disrespectful somehow.. to be made into a big Frankenstein-bird at the end.

lemmein · 13/12/2022 23:48

*This made me laugh!

For everyone saying it's disgusting, how is the concept any different to pigs in blankets or similar?*

When my kids were little they looked disgusted at me eating black pudding 'euwwww pigs blood!' - whilst happily wolfing down their pork sausages! 🤣

bellac11 · 13/12/2022 23:49

latetothefisting · 13/12/2022 23:44

This made me laugh!

For everyone saying it's disgusting, how is the concept any different to pigs in blankets or similar?

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I never know what people mean when they say these things are disgusting as such, and people do say that a lot a about these multiple bird roasts, but I also wonder what happens to the skin of the inside bird, I cant imagine the slimy rubbery skin all cooked inside the other birds is very nice.

Banjoman · 13/12/2022 23:50

villamariavintrapp · 13/12/2022 23:47

@Banjoman I suppose not, but it seems disrespectful somehow.. to be made into a big Frankenstein-bird at the end.

Hmm no worse than a KFC bargain bucket!