This dish is a little like turducken. (background: Turducken is a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey; some people eat this triple-animal feast for Thanksgiving dinner.)
A horscowgoadocabirwormspifly (pronounced HORSE ca go DOCK a bur WORM spih fly) is similar, but it's a fly wrapped in a spider wrapped in a worm wrapped in a bird wrapped in a cat . . . wrapped in everything else the Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly also ate. (Dog, goat, cow, and horse, to finish it off)
All this stuff is perfectly edible, not always by our particular culture, but definitely *somewhere* in the world. Squeamish people may want to substitute spaghetti for the worm and licorice flavored candies for the spider & fly, but purists will undoubtedly object.-- phundug, May 02 2005 "The Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly" http://www.the-old-sea-dog.net/kk1.html [phundug, May 02 2005] She died. Probably from something the fly was carrying. If she didn’t eat the fly, it might be safe to eat the old woman as well.-- Shz, May 02 2005 I'm not sure how comfortable I would be eating a meal that had killed the only other person to eat it.-- hidden truths, May 02 2005 Ha ha ha (+)-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 03 2005 My in-laws have a recipe for stuffed camel:
40 kilos tomatoes, stuffed into 20 chickens, stuffed into 4 lambs, stuffed into 1 camel, roasted for one day and fed to 150 people.-- david_scothern, May 03 2005 I personally feel like I have been reeled in, "hook, line and sinker". Hence, I won't grant it an answer, a bun, a bone, or even a heave.-- blissmiss, May 03 2005 It's that darn name thing again, isn't it? Must go bun [viola] - it might be stupid but it's very true.-- moomintroll, May 03 2005 -How do you pronounce it? -Like it's spelled.-- nick_n_uit, May 04 2005 I thought hippo did the ultimate long title idea, a while back, or was it bubba ? But lately, it seems, I am remembering many ideas, or sorts of ideas, resurfacing, re-named, and re...ergh, gergatated. (Can I get by with that word?)-- blissmiss, May 04 2005 Where did the worm come from? Thers no worm in the version I heard.
Worm forsooth!
+ though-- energy guy, May 04 2005 I would think that would be really disgusting, but wow. I definitely would never have come up with something like that. Hats off to you phundug!-- hobbitcoat, May 04 2005 You're right, where the heck did I get "worm" from? I guess it's because it had rained in the park recently and the robins were slurping up exposed worms by the hundreds this morning. But a worm eating a spider? Guess I need a new biology lesson.-- phundug, May 05 2005 Are we so mindless that all it takes to draw us in is a confusing title?-- hidden truths, May 09 2005 //Are we so mindless that all it takes to draw us in is a confusing title// Apparently, yes.-- coprocephalous, May 09 2005 I think this dish can be compounded further still. ahem..... "Whalelephantiger sheepandanteater dogorillama- catfish-frog-fly." (I am assuming we have here a very small gorilla and a very large dog.)-- ultra-toaster 3000, Oct 18 2009 random, halfbakery