Things Inside of Other Things
Last year, she created a turducken. She could have bought one, they had them at the butcher shop, pre-stuffed. But she cared too much about her guests and about the spirits of the unfortunate poultry involved to let the carcasses be manhandled by an anonymous meat stuffer.
Her strong, but delicate hands were well suited to the task of painstakingly deboning the turkey, duck, and chicken, and then stuffing the chicken in the duck, and then the duck, stuffed with chicken, into the turkey. When she finished, the three creatures melded together to form a delicious strata.
A year passed. Between last year's Thanksgiving and this one, she got divorced, changed jobs twice, and went on three dates. Her Thanksgiving guest list dwindled from the eight people of last year to just three: her parents and herself.
Undaunted, this year she seeks a more complicated challenge. Determined to make this Thanksgiving more special than the last, she ponders long on how to create a chiduckey. The secrets to the chiduckey, she thinks, are a very large chicken, a medium duck, and a powerful blender for the turkey. Oh, and a funnel, because she's pouring a huge amount of substance into an extremely small, but very empty, cavity.
Her strong, but delicate hands were well suited to the task of painstakingly deboning the turkey, duck, and chicken, and then stuffing the chicken in the duck, and then the duck, stuffed with chicken, into the turkey. When she finished, the three creatures melded together to form a delicious strata.
A year passed. Between last year's Thanksgiving and this one, she got divorced, changed jobs twice, and went on three dates. Her Thanksgiving guest list dwindled from the eight people of last year to just three: her parents and herself.
Undaunted, this year she seeks a more complicated challenge. Determined to make this Thanksgiving more special than the last, she ponders long on how to create a chiduckey. The secrets to the chiduckey, she thinks, are a very large chicken, a medium duck, and a powerful blender for the turkey. Oh, and a funnel, because she's pouring a huge amount of substance into an extremely small, but very empty, cavity.
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"the task of painstakingly deboning the turkey, duck, and chicken, and then stuffing the chicken in the duck, and then the duck, stuffed with chicken, into the turkey."
M.C. Escher cuisine!
Offbeat and unexpectedly moving. Good work, Lynn.
Not going to lie: I love this. And not just because you said "carcasses manhandled by an anonymous meat stuffer" - which reminds me of an unfortunate position I briefly held while in community college.
She, and her meal, are going to use a beer bong to try to fill the void. Love it.
Thanks Bill, Boudreau! I'll save you each a glass of drumstick.
The implication of obsessive-compulsive overdoing and thus overcompensating for a life in tatters with chiducky as implied metaphor is excellent. Nice, (dare I say subtle?), work.
Love the idea of chiduckey! Nice way to tie together the changing personal life with the concept of meats stuffed inside other meats.
Love this! *
You delivered as promised, Lynn.
This is admiration, stuffed inside a compliment, stuffed inside a turkey.
Lynn, this seemed to come out of nowhere, but it took me everywhere - great litte tale.
"I'll say you each a glass of drumstick," says Lynn. Ha! Both your comment and story are drolly funny, basted with a delicious deadpan delivery. *
Oops! I say, this should've read, "I'll *save* you each a glass of drumstick." Much funnier Lynn's way, without my typo.
I love this, Lynn! love that she remains undaunted and continues forward, "and a funnel, because she's pouring a huge amount of substance into an extremely small, but very empty, cavity." I'm still cracking up! *****
I hope the three birds represent the three dates she went on. I saw this done on the UK show "Come Dine With Me". It was a foul affair. FAVE
Just found this and I love it. Wasn't sure where it was going right until the end. The close is a cracker.