Thanksgiving dinner is one of the best parts of the entire holiday. For some people, it's the only real part of the holiday, but regardless of how you celebrate, Thanksgiving typically ends with everyone around a table, content with the fact that they ate far more than anyone should ever eat at once.
For most, this calls an assortment of food: turkey, corn, potatoes, cranberry sauce - individually, they're pretty standard, but together, they make up the traditional mountain of Thanksgiving food. In recent years, extreme eating has grown more and more popular, and with it, more elaborate Thanksgiving feasts are created every day. The 'turducken' ( a combination of turkey, duck and chicken) was extremely popular a few years back, but one Kickstarter is taking the idea one step further:
The title says it all: the Kickstarter is helping fund a candied bacon-wrapped alligator/pork turducken - that's a chicken in a duck in a turkey in a pig in an alligator, then wrapped in bacon. Trust us, it's just as insane as it sounds. Thanks go out to New York Times food editor Sam Sifton for finding this 'unique' project page.
It almost seems like a joke, given that the funding video seems to be nothing more than cell-phone footage and the list of prizes boils down to free pictures of the finished product. Real or not, there are only a few hours left for the meal to receive its funding, and with $4,989 to go, there's a good chance the project will never see the light of day.
Maybe...just maybe, that's a good thing.
