ebay watch - genesis lot

Today's eBay Watch is a massive Genesis lot of games and hardware. While I have seen more absurd piles of equipment and media all grouped together, it is still an impressive set of games, though more impressive yet is the shipping rate! I figure it may go for around $850, but have been wrong before.

Because of how my mind works, I suddenly got a hankering to see what the internet had to tell me about one of my favorite topics, the Turducken. As expected, wikipedia thrust its hand into the air and squirmed in it's seat like a front row suck-up until it was called upon. Today, though, it had delightful and hilarious information! Please witness, the greatest 'nested bird roast' ever in the history of mankind:

The largest recorded nested bird roast is 17 birds, attributed to a royal feast in France in the 19th Century:
a bustergophechiduckneaealcockidgeoverwingailusharkolanbler (originally called a Rôti Sans Pareil, or "Roast without equal") - a bustard stuffed with a turkey, a goose, a pheasant, a chicken, a duck, a guinea fowl, a teal, a woodcock, a partridge, a plover, a lapwing, a quail, a thrush, a lark, an Ortolan Bunting and a Garden Warbler. The final bird is small enough that it can be stuffed with a single olive; it also suggests that, unlike modern multi-bird roasts, there was no stuffing or other packing placed in between the birds. This dish probably could not be recreated in the modern era as many of the listed birds are now protected species.

I hope that John Madden reads this article as well as I can only imagine the delight that he would have over the amazing excess that this roast involves! I will always enjoy telling my Madden Turducken NFL story, and will gladly do so over several pints any day.

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Posted by charlie on March 27th 2007
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