Comments on: I'll have the ham

I'll have the ham

Chrysostom — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:56:37 -0800

"It serves 125, takes eight hours to cook and is stuffed with 12 different birds..." [via Cynical-C]

By: milarepa

milarepa — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:04:34 -0800

mmm gamey.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:07:08 -0800

I am adding the accidental portmanteau word industrialducksized to my vocabulary.

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:07:11 -0800

Alton Brown says, "Stuffing is evil."

By: turaho

turaho — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:07:47 -0800

If you smash the names of all the birds together, you get a turoosbarbguinmallpousquapartsquapheaaylesducken, which sounds a lot like one of those really long, unpronounceable names in North Wales or someplace.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:08:06 -0800

Obligatory Red vs. Blue

By: artifarce

artifarce — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:09:06 -0800

First and last use of the tag "Aylesburyduck"? Until next year when the 21-bird roast is, uh, stuffed.

By: Koko

Koko — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:10:05 -0800

That puts my lobster stuffed with tacos to shame.

By: longdaysjourney

longdaysjourney — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:12:46 -0800

Yes, but do you get to wear a towel over your head when you eat it?

By: krinklyfig

krinklyfig — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:14:04 -0800

Cool Papa Bell writes "Alton Brown says, 'Stuffing is evil.'" Except, from the article: "It was very moist and had an interesting mix of textures and flavours. All the citrus stuffings cut through the strong gamey flavours really well." Maybe the stuffing is necessary.

By: longdaysjourney

longdaysjourney — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:14:33 -0800

That should be "napkin", not towel, sigh.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:16:17 -0800

no fewer than 48 birds of 12 different species Yeah, but none of them are endangered species. Bor-ring.

By: milkrate

milkrate — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:22:36 -0800

Ask post

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:24:08 -0800

Previously

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:25:44 -0800

This explains the dodo and the passenger pigeon.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:29:11 -0800

Sjoberg, too.

By: junebug

junebug — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:30:20 -0800

Bread and circuses, my friends. Whence the Visigoths?

By: jamesonandwater

jamesonandwater — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:30:40 -0800

I've often wondered what happened to the Ask guy. rorycberger, did it work?!

By: nanojath

nanojath — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:33:33 -0800

"It serves 125, takes eight hours to cook and is stuffed with 12 different birds..." Pterarchteoptcondovulturducken?

By: ericb

ericb — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:36:13 -0800

Yes, but do you get to wear a towel over your head when you eat it? Ha! When reading the FPP I, too, first thought of the recent This American Life segment on eating ortolan. That episode included a number of other stories related to eating fowl and birds during the holidays.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:40:38 -0800

I'd go for a porkbacon. That's pork with bacon in it.

By: davejay

davejay — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:40:40 -0800

So basically, it's an Aylesbury duck inside a chicken inside a pheasant inside a pigeon squab inside a partridge inside a quail inside a poussin inside a mallard inside a guinea fowl inside Cthulhu inside a barbary duck inside a good inside a turkey? er, wait

By: phyrewerx

phyrewerx — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:50:50 -0800

This is nothing without a Pterodactyl to cap it off at the end.

By: Kadin2048

Kadin2048 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:51:32 -0800

I've heard that the animal-within-an-animal stuffing business originated with the Romans; they had something that involved 5+ levels of stuffing, beginning with a whole cow and working down to a small game bird, all roasted together on a spit. (Which strikes me as a recipe for either food poisoning or charred meat, but I wouldn't put it past them.) I think the source for it that's frequently mentioned is the Satyricon of Petronius. I can't find in the text in a quick glance (so it may be apocryphal) but this blog post mentions it as "a cow stuffed with a lamb stuffed with a pig stuffed with a rooster stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a thrush".

By: flaterik

flaterik — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:05:48 -0800

I'm still trying to figure out a stuffing system that starts with a pigeon and ends with blue whale. I tend to get confused right about the time I get to buffalo.

By: serazin

serazin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:14:16 -0800

I suddenly remembered why I'm a vegetarian.

By: Challahtronix

Challahtronix — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:15:54 -0800

Can someone set this recipe to the tune of Chad Gadya?

By: bruce

bruce — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:19:08 -0800

the world of gastronomy has expanded so much since i was a kid. have any notable american chefs/food writers ever done anything with rodents?

By: Parasite Unseen

Parasite Unseen — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:21:57 -0800

Uncultured swine! In my family, we cook up a dish consisting of a wren, stuffed inside a chicken, stuffed inside a duck, stuffed inside a turkey, stuffed inside a gorilla, stuffed inside a great white shark. In the wren's belly is a single almond. We delight in eating the almond and discarding the rest. The flavor is exquisite.

By: prototype_octavius

prototype_octavius — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:30:20 -0800

In the wren's belly is a single almond. We delight in eating the almond and discarding the rest. The flavor is exquisite. -spit take- hilarious.

By: norm

norm — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:36:52 -0800

Turducken? Fuck that shit! ~~Pabst Blue Ribbon~~ (whatever that ...thing... is)

By: mkb

mkb — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:57:57 -0800

Here is the world record: a Bedouin stuffed roasted camel. (supposedly)

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:03:27 -0800

I do know someone who had a four bird one for Christmas once... not very successful I seem to remember. And unless you're real careful about cooking it, it's a Salmonella Special.

By: availablelight

availablelight — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:09:29 -0800

Here is the world record: a Bedouin stuffed roasted camel. (supposedly) posted by mkb at 5:57 PM on December 17 [+] [!] How do you get the Bedouin in there?

By: grumpy

grumpy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:54:06 -0800

I hear it tastes just like chicken.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:05:41 -0800

When do we get around to stuffing a pig into a cow? Go for the gusto, dammit.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:45:03 -0800

Oh great, now I'm hungry for duck... it's such a lovely food, but eating too much of it will make your heart explode, I'm sure of it. Have you ever seen fat runoff from a duck sausage? You could run a diesel engine off that stuff. This dish includes *four* ducks AND a goose. It must be an orgasmic feast.

By: Huplescat

Huplescat — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:33:40 -0800

Thats a dish fit for a decadent monarch. Does anyone know if vultures are good... to eat that is. One shit on my truck last week and I know where it lives.

By: bowmaniac

bowmaniac — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:40:23 -0800

How do you get the Bedouin in there? posted by availablelight at 3:09 PM on December 17 [+] [!] Practice?

By: TedW

TedW — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:38:50 -0800

...stuffing a pig into a cow... Steerporken?

By: porpoise

porpoise — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:08:18 -0800

Amateurs. They didn't even triple stuff the drumstick and wings! It's not that hard; and the triple-bird drumsticks and wings are even tastier than the stuffed thoraxes (thoraxii?).

By: rhymer

rhymer — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:46:26 -0800

In certain parts of the UK, a 12 bird roast can mean something rather different.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:39:08 -0800

Brings gluttony to a whole new level.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:35:40 -0800

Brings gluttony to a whole new level. You know, that's what I was kind of getting at with my dodo & passenger pigeon comment, but upon further reflection, I'm not sure that's fair. If you indeed serve 125 with the dish, it's probably not particularly gluttonous. 48 birds for 125 people is probably about right (although the article doesn't spell out how many of each bird are involved, so you can't say for sure). The dish has 50,000 calories, but that's only 400 calories per person.