Saturday, 21 December 2013

Behold, the Cthurkey! A monstrous hybrid of crab, turkey and octopus

The dish is the culinary concoction of Rusty Eulberg, who wanted to ‘do something unique’ for Christmas dinner.

Rusty named the abomination Cthurkey, because his wife is a big fan of Cthulhu – a mythical monster created by horror writer HP Lovecraft. The beast has an octopus-like head with a face of feelers, a scaly body and long, narrow wings.

His method involves roasting a turkey topped with bacon, while cooking the crab and the octopus separately. He then joins the three together to make a feast fit for Frankenstein’s table.

In an additional touch of menace, he serves the dish on an old Nazi platter featuring a Swastika on the bottom – a relic bought by a friend in an old abandoned Lutwaffe base in Germany.

Rusty told Gothamist: ‘The universal reaction was, “Oh my God, I couldn’t eat that”. But each individual piece was cooked separately. All I did was set them together on the plate. It was delicious.’

He has diversified the dish to create the Cthicken – squid, crab and chicken – and is also considering other methods of cooking, such as deep-fried Cthurkey

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