And the winner is......

...drum roll please.....

My blood has finally started flowing freely again and thus I can muster enough energy to type. After a less than protracted debate with dinner guests, I have decided to break up the battle into two categories:

1) "Moistness":
now there really must be a better word than moist to describe meat. Moist is an appropriate describing word for two things: cake and panties. But it shall have to do since it was the word most oft used by those eating the birds. Anyhow, the winner in this category is the fried turkey. The hot oil (heated to 350 degrees and watched like a weeping Mary in a South American convent) causes the skin to seize and lock in the juices without taking in much oil. The result is perfectly cooked, tender and subtly flavored turkey. Delicious.

2) Flavor:
The hands down winner in this category was turducken. The explosion of the cajun flavors provided from the stuffing bathed gently in duck fat is a combination that is damn near impossible to beat. Note that use of the word "flavor" is not necessarily indicitive of liking the creation, just that it had a lot more of it.

The reason for these two categories was that this is how everyone responded when asked which bird they preferred. Everyone except for Denise refused to truly commit to delcaring one or the other a superior thanksgiving treat. In her infinitely honest wisdom she declared, "I'm glad I can say that I tried turducken. Its a good conversation piece. But I dont ever need to eat that again"