The Turducken comes as a grilled melt type sandwich with a side of kettle chips. (Photo by Peter Currier)
WEST SPRINGFIELD- Part two of my Big E weird food review took me in a direction I was not expecting, as the name of this food mislead me into thinking it would be weirder than it ended up being.
While taking one of many laps around the fairgrounds on Monday, a small restaurant and bar caught my eye for one particular menu item: the Turducken Sandwich.
The sandwich can be found in The New England Craft Pub on the end of the Avenue of States closest to the Rhode Island building.
The term “turducken” may be a familiar one, as it is a relatively famous dish that consists of cooked chicken inside of a cooked duck that is also inside a cooked turkey, or some combination thereof. None of those foods are particularly weird in a vacuum, but once you start putting each one inside of the other, it starts to toe the line of “weird” territory.
So I ordered the sandwich and paid my $10. As I waited, I struggled to understand how this epic meal could possibly be condensed into a sandwich form.
It was quickly brought out to me, and I realized that they had simply ground the three meats together to make it work as a sandwich. The outside actually seems like it was grilled like a grilled cheese, which I suppose makes this sandwich a “melt” more than anything.
I sat down nearby and took a bite into it, and it is actually one of the best foods I have ever had at the Big E. The three ground meats were sandwiched alongside a cranberry stuffing and a kind of cheese I couldn’t immediately identify. The tenderness of the meat and the sweetness of the stuffing went quite well together. I am pleasantly surprised at how good this was.
