Editor’s note: This post was initially released in November 2017 and upgraded following John Madden’s death in December 2021.
There are numerous NFL memories we’ll all have from Thanksgiving, however when you believe of the late John Madden calling videogames on the vacation, you may partner him with one word: Turducken.
That’s the Frankenstein-like mix of duck, chicken and turkey that provides eaters a taste of each.
It was over 2 years ago that Madden veryfirst attempted the turducken, leading him to talk about it on the air and program it throughout numerous a Thanksgiving videogame, promoting a meal that was familiar in Louisiana before thousands of turduckens were sentbymail around the world.
How did the turkey-duck-chicken make its method into Madden’s hands (literally)?
Let’s go further back than 1997 for a 2nd. First, you have to ask where the turducken camefrom from. The story isn’t totally clear.
Paul Prudhomme, the popular Louisiana chef who passedaway in 2015, declares he developed it in the 1960s while working in Wyoming. Here’s part of the claim from a 1994 Times-Picayune shortarticle reprinted on NOLA.com:
The initial Turducken was presented here in the 1970s by chef Paul Prudhomme. He developed the principle a years earlier in Sheridan, Wyo., while working on a diningestablishment buffet line sculpting meats. Everything looked quite otherthan the turkey, he stated. So the innovative chef set out to develop something smashing. He ultimately ended up with 3 birds, each with its own dressing. After moving back to New Orleans, Prudhomme provided it its name, then copyrighted Turducken in 1986.
“It’s that wild creativity I have and the physical abuse I provide myself to make it takeplace,” he stated, describing the development. “One of the biggest satisfaction of my life hasactually been to be able to do things like the Turducken that make individuals pleased. It’s a big effort however assoonas you taste it, it is actually the finest.”
But there’s likewise a story that in 1985, a farmer came t