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farctate--adj. (FARK-tate)--stuffed, filled. (from tsuwm's back words tshirt link) farctate turducken  (almost sounds like another language!) But I think I would've kept the "k" in tur kducken, to keep that turd out of there...I mean, who wants to eat that? Plus, I'm a big fan of alliteration. Oh, for those of you who don't do wfftd..stuff a chicken into a duck into a turkey, roast or bar-b-que, and you have a turducken!
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What is this blue rondo?
a jazz tune made popular by Dave Brubeck, from the same album as Take Five. I say made popular, rather than written, because I'm not sure that Brubeck wrote it; it may have been Paul Desmond. sadly, I'm without that record right now, so I can't check!
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I would've kept the "k" in turkducken
I agree that it makes better poetic sense in the phrase farctate turkducken with the rkd of turkducken echoing the rct of farctate.
Obviousizing what WO'N meant by alliteration.
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Q: What is this blue rondo?
A: a jazz tune made popular by Dave Brubeck, from the same album as Take Five.
But the original Turkish Rondo refers to the Rondo alla Turca, from one of Mozart's piano sonatas.
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thank you wofa, for that completion!
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The action of stuffing one fowl inside another. it's no engastration, it's cruelty 
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Medieval chefs were expected to invent spectacular surprises. Engastration was just an
example of this. Remember the nursery rhyme:
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye;
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
They all began to sing.
Now, wasn't that a dainty dish
To set before the King?
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Point well taken. Isn't there also a more allegorical/pointed/satirical/political meaning (as with many other "nursery" rhymes)? It was a particular King that was meant, and the 24 blackbirds were some real noblemen, and such like? Any historians available?
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Dear wofahulicodoc: The only nursery rhyme with genuine historical background is that of
Little Jack Horner, about which we had several posts fairly recently. I have read "folksetymology"
equivalent allegation about others, but know not how to check themm
Incidentally, in the old days oven temperatures were comparatively low, and birds had to be
stuffed to keep them from being dried out too much during slow cooki;ng. With today's hot ovens
cooking times are much shorter, and many state health departments forbid restaurants' stuffing
birds as Salmonella may not be killed if cold things such as whole apples are used along with
the bread crumbs etc. Can't resist adding bit of humor from caroon Moon Mullins many years ago.
To give Mamie a break from cooking, Willie cooks the bird. Little Kayo asks for some stuffing, and
Willie says "There ain't none. This bird wasn't hollow." Last frame shows Mamie beating Willie over
the head with turkey with all viscera still inside.
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