gooducken

English

Etymology

Blend of goose +‎ duck +‎ chicken.

Noun

gooducken (plural gooduckens)

1. A dish composed of a goose stuffed with duck which, in turn, has been stuffed with chicken.
   • 2004 November 21, gwendolen, quoting “Three-in-one bird is big this Christmas” by Will Iredale, “Re: Something for Nella?”, in alt.support.loneliness.lighthouse-keepers (Usenet):

     Suppliers of gooduckens say orders this Christmas are more than double those of last year, buoyed by the support of celebrities such as the actress Emma Thompson.

   • 2004 December 16, Evening Standard, London, page 36:

     The must-have centrepiece this Christmas seems to be the ‘gooducken’, which is a goose stuffed with a duck that has been stuffed with a chicken.

   • 2007 December 5, FunMan, quoting “What is a gooducken?”, “Gooducken”, in nl.culinair (Usenet):

     One drawback: Unless you're an expert butcher, you will probably need to have your gooducken, goopheasen or other variant prepared for you.

   • 2017, Taran Matharu, Summoner: The Battlemage, Hooder Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     Even with these enormous dishes, yet more meat lined the tables; skillets of hare with tangerine jelly, fritters of river pike, poached sturgeon with a garnish of its own caviar and even a gooducken, the extravagant portmanteau of a chicken stuffed within a duck, stuffed within a goose.

   • 2021, Henry Scowcroft, Cross Everything: A Personal Journey into the Evolution of Cancer, Green Tree, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:

     There are also variants such as (in America) the gooducken (a chicken in a duck in a goose), Waitrose’s popular four-bird roast (a guinea fowl in a duck in a turkey in a goose) and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s frankly ridiculous ten-bird roast – an 18lb turkey with a goose, a duck, a mallard, a guinea fowl, a chicken, a pheasant, a partridge, a pigeon and a woodcock inside it.

   • 2021 November 25, Greg Hilburn, “Louisiana’s Thanksgiving gifts to the world”, in The News-Star, volume 93, number 41, page 4A:

     The English prepare a gooducken in which the turkey is replaced with a goose.