Turduckens, football and holidays go together like, well, a turkey stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a duck .

Whether or not you let a turducken near your own holiday table, tales of this three-part poultry power play are bound to come up around holiday football games.

The credit goes to John Madden , who as a broadcaster made the turducken a trope of his holiday game day shows. In the process he gave the Cajun butcher shop specialty its wings, lifting it to an edible oddity of national repute, instead of just a regional one.

Madden called his last pro football Thanksgiving game years ago, and he died in 2021 at age 85. Even through his retirement years, however, one local butcher, made sure he still got his holiday turduckens.

Glenn Mistich, who with his wife Leah runs Gour

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