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I have had turducken but once. And it was Divine. All three meats were moist and flavourful, the cajun sasuage stuffing added a wonderful bite and everthing melded into an awesome poultry experience. I'm not having much success in Deboning my own birds, and the wife grumbles at the price if I were to order one, but I really want it again. I'm tempted to get together a few of my friends and split the cost to order one again.

All I have to say is that who really wants to eat a poultry orgy? (sorry for the crudeness, but you all are thinking it!)

and yes, I have tried it, and let's just say I prefer spam.

Why is it when I hear Brittany all I want to do is Drink ? Mario is great!

Mario is the man! and he loves his music too! We're forever Mario fans now.

I'm a musician and always aware of music in the background. Have you ever seen a movie without the background music? You don't realize how it sets the mood, increases tension. Sometimes it is just sound, like a beating heart, and it affects you, probably even more when you are unaware you are listening. Music is used in marketing, in grocery stores, amusement parks, cooking shows, restaurants. Case in point....I love Mario's cooking, but the screaming opera that he played on his show made me run for the remote. It assulted my ears. He must love it, because it was his theme song, but for me........pure terror. I love you Mario, and your cook books. ;)

Turducken is one of the more repulsive combinations I have been subjected to over a long span of holidays. Dry turkey stuffed with greasy duck stuffed with undercooked chicken, all overspiced with sage. Yucccccch!

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I had my Christmas Eve dinner almost ruined by the Cajun Grocer’s incompetence.
I ordered a complete meal from them on December 13. They had said on their web site that they ship on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays so that orders will be received on the following weekend. Christmas Eve was a Monday so that left me with the entire weekend to make sure that the turducken would be completely thawed by Christmas Eve.
They shipped my order on Wednesday, December 19. I took a day off of work on Friday, December 21 since that was the day that the Fedex web site said was the delivery date.
I was nervous about shipping it with only two days to get from Louisiana to Chicago but I trusted that they knew what they were doing .. even at the busy holiday season.
When Friday came and went with no update from Fedex as to the progress of my package other than it had left Louisiana on December 19, I began to get nervous.
Saturday morning, I saw that my package had arrived … in St. Paul, Minnesota!! Now, Chicago is not like a small town where you can easily miss the exit on the interstate for us.
I tried to contact the Cajun Grocer on Saturday to see what they could do to help me. They had been promoting their products for holiday dinners, so, on the weekend just before the big holiday, of course, they were not working at all.
I saw later on Saturday that my package had left Minnesota on Saturday morning at 5am. It had arrived somewhere in Chicago on Sunday evening but, after that, there was no further information. By 11:30am on Christmas Eve, when there would be no time to defrost the bird for dinner, I called Fedex to tell them that I would refuse delivery of the package and then called American Express to dispute the charge for the dinner that I never had.
I had to throw something together at the last minute for my kids and their dates. Because my guests were my kids, they understood. But, as for the Cajun Grocer, they will never get my business again. As far as I am concerned, they are an outfit that is not big enough or organized enough to handle a large volume of orders in a time crunch.
I will stick to local food providers from now on. I advise you to do the same.

It's just like any other recipe for roasted fowl....if it's done correctly, it's delicious. That is, of course, assuming you like roasted fpwl.

Most "pop" music has no revelance to me at all. I'm really very sensitive to the music I'm subjected to wherever I dine. Having said that, (I'm an extreme case, I know) I'd rather have no music than REM, Talking Heads, or God forbid, reggae. Do some music therapy research and you'll see that music most certainly influences the whole dining experinece...right down to our digestion!

I had turducken once and would never do it again. It was dry, dry, dry.

Think about it--the meat most prone to overcooking, turkey breast, is on the outside with a duck, and a chicken (and maybe nore) stuffed inside. You have to cook it a good long time to cook all that other meat, leaving the turkey overcooked.

The people who like 'em see, to really like 'em but to me, definitely a novelty item. If I needed that much meat, I'd just cook 2 birds!