Fowl Play: Wherein Anything Worth Doing is Worth Overdoing

by kittymowmow on December 18, 2007

 

 

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YUM! This year’s Yuletide feast in England: “We are going to eat a PETA activist stuffed inside a Greenpeace activist stuffed inside a Animal ‘Rights’ activist stuffed inside Gordon Brown’s voluminous carcass (with a non-’Fair Trade’ apple stuffed into his mouth). Now THAT is a Christmas dinner! No, THIS is a Christmas Dinner! It serves 125, takes eight hours to cook and is stuffed with 12 different birds First there was:TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s creation of a ten-bird roast on his show two years ago.He stuffed an 18lb turkey with a goose, duck, mallard, guinea fowl, chicken, pheasant, partridge, pigeon and woodcock - producing a remarkable Russian doll-like dish. Now there is: a behemoth containing no fewer than 48 birds of 12 different species. This massive roast, the proud creation of Devon farmer Anne Petch, weighs almost four stone [56 pounds] (more than most airlines’ baggage allowance), costs [$1,330], and has enough meat to serve 125 people.It contains about 50,000 calories and takes more than eight hours to cook in an industrialducksized [sic] oven.

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