Whoever heard of Turducken?

It's the first time I come across this dish from a book titled " It must've been something that I ate" by food critic Jeffrey Steingarten. A Tur-duck-en takes a chicken, duck and a turkey; debone them and stuff a chicken into the duck and then the duck into the turkey. Neat, eh?

You see, I've just read about the dish; not tasted it. And I think I probably won't ever. Can't fancy myself deboning a chicken; much less a duck and a TURKEY! And then to stuff them one inside the other. It'd probably take me 3 days.

But this dish reminded me of a song I have often sang to my kids. It goes like this:

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly;
She swallowed a fly, She swallowed a fly;
I think she'd die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a spider;
She followed a spider to catch the fly;
She swallowed a fly, She swallowed a fly;
I think she'd die.

Then repeat the song with : swallowed a cat to catch the spider; swallowed a dog to catch the cat; ending ridiculously with swallowed a horse to swallow the dog....and Of course she's dead.

Always makes my kids laugh and to stop them from opening their mouths for a while...

And the TURKEY always reminds me of Pa slaughtering the turkey we reared in Jalan Siputeh. Pa sat on the turkey to kill it. The bird is so large and I can't figure out how pa had the courage to do that.

But of course, we had a nice turkey dish after that. Ma cooked it chinese style with golden needles, red dates, cinamon, five-spiced powder, etc. The bird was stewed to perfection and that lasted us for lunch and dinner as well.

Ah...those wonderful days when meals are prepared for me.