While surfing for something else the other day, I found a John Madden byline story from 2001 in the Chicago Tribune about Thanksgiving.

In the piece, he actually explains the Turducken, which he made famous during his days calling Thanksgiving games for CBS and Fox.

Turducken has become part of our meal, too. Turducken is a New Orleans thing we found years ago. There’s a butcher down there who makes it for us. Turducken is a deboned chicken stuffed in a deboned duck stuffed in a deboned turkey. And between the layers of meat are layers of dressing. So you slice it and you get turkey, dressing, duck, dressing, chicken. That’s really good.

So now you know. Actually, it does sound pretty good.

Happy Thanksgiving, John.