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Turducken Tuckin': Not Your Father's Bird

Aired November 27, 2003 - 06:53   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It starts off like a joke, they took a turkey, a duck and a chicken and they cooked them all together and then held a turducken eating contest. Turducken eating contest.
Where else would you find this story but in New York. And who else would bring it to you but Jeanne Moos.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Does this look like Thanksgiving dinner at your house?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you can stomach Michael Jackson's mug shot, you can stomach competitive eating.

MOOS: What they are eating is enough to make a turkey trot.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cookie jar (ph), this is going turducken, for turducken with this woman.

MOOS: Turducken: turkey, duck and chicken.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At first I thought that they had a turkey have sex with a chicken.

MOOS: The butchers at Le Bells (ph) set us straight.

(on camera): So it's basically a deboned ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sorry.

MOOS: Did you slop this thing around?

(voice-over): Take a turkey, a duck and a chicken and debone them. Then put the chicken and the duck into the turkey, along with stuffing, sew it up, then wallah (ph), turducken.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ain't she a beaut?

MOOS: We tasted the turducken back at the contest.

(on camera): That's good.

(voice-over): But competitors said it was a bit dry for speed eating.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She is compacting the food in her stomach and getting rid of that burp. Ladies and gentlemen, she is in its own (ph).

MOOS: Each plate contained a pound of food.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You are looking at the three horsemen of the esophagus here.

MOOS: Whoever eats the most in 12 minutes wins.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sonja Thomas (ph).

MOOS: Wearing a mere 100 pounds, this former manager of a Burger King beat the big boys. She ate this much food, 7.75 pounds.

(on camera): Where is all that turducken right now? Can we see? Can we see?

(voice-over): Last year's winner isn't giving turducken a bad rap.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Turducken for Thanksgiving, it's your best bet, ooha (ph).

MOOS: Why talk mere turkey when you can talk turducken, or as its namesakes call it, gobble, quack, cluck.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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