Review of Cajun Grocer Turducken. . .

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mistral

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We purchased one of Cajun Grocer's turduckens (15 lbs) for Thanksgiving. The beast arrived in solid, frozen majesty. Held just fine defrosting in the fridge. Went on the grill (we smoked it) great, was very handsome. Turkey, chicken and duck(duck breast only) was good.

Despite a small confusion about shipping, the thing arrived in good shape, within shipping parameters. Customer service was very good.

BUT, I cannot recommend this turducken because the stuffing was supposed to be "cajun cornbread stuffing" and the dang stuffing was sweet! Irritattingly sweet! I though it was against all tradition to put sugar at all in southern cornbread?

That stuffing was just nasty-sweet. Maybe if I was eating just the cornbread it would'a been good, but as a stuffing, it was "suckalicious".

We will try a turducken again, but will get a completely meat beast (no stuffing at all) from Shelton's in California (a local purveyor of turkeys and various other poultry and poultry products); Shelton's calls it their "Poultry Trilogy"--and they use a whole duck inside a whole chicken inside the turkey--no stuffing, and so all meat. Their Pomona store is near to us and we can get them (this year at least) starting at 15 lbs at about 5$ a pound, which is roughly the price we paid at Cajun grocer WITHOUT Cajun Grocer's shipping cost--and their bird was not all meat.

Oh well, I am glad that 4 of us split the cost!

 
Always wanted to try one of these! Thanks for the post. I recall one that was stuffed

w/ sausage! Let me know if you find the "perfect one". I was going through my files for Thanksgiving, and ran across an article that I had printed out years ago, on how to make one. (What was I thinking??@$#) Obviously, never got around to it. I believe it was Chef Paul.

 
I think we had the same brand a couple of years ago, with 2 diff stuffings. It...

...was okay, but I recall that only one of the stuffings was worth eating. I can't stand sweet stuffing, either, and our usual stuffing is a basic sage.

I'd be interested to hear about other turducken brands that are worth purchasing.

 
Food related rant! I often find things which should be savory taste sweet to me. I've always

avoided cornbread stuffing for that reason. Why do manufacturers who boast about their fat-reduced products just load their stuff up with sugar?. They also seem to think that honey, syrup, fructose etc. are not sugar. I recently bought "healthy" fat-reduced potato chips which tasted sweet and sure enough a version of sugar was listed in the ingredients. What were they thinking?. My complaint was shrugged off with a couple of coupons. Why would I want to buy more of their disgusting product? Forget about fat, just read labels which include some form of Sugar in practically everything. And don't get me started on salt!!

 
The stuffing in this turducken tasted like Marie Callendar's cornbread. . .

more like corn cake, very, very sweet. Yuck.

And I am with you about finding so many things that should be savory tasting sweet. Good Lord, I hate it.

 
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