By now we're assuming you've heard of the turducken: A Thanksgiving dish consisting of a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey, because this is America, and what good is your meat if it's not stuffed with other types of meat?

But you may not have encountered these 10 wild and crazy iterations of the traditional turducken—some kinda healthy and others 100% horrifying. Either way, prepare to be amazed.

Turbaconducken

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The obvious first step in making an already-indulgent dish even more indulgent? Bacon, of course. That's precisely what the folks at Bacon Today did when they made this turducken wrapped up in five actual pounds of bacon. You can see every step of the process right here.

The Original Veggieducken

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Thanks to one creative chef, the vegetarians of the world have an answer to all this turducken mayhem. Meet the veggieducken, first developed in 2012 by Dan Pashman for a Cooking Channel web series. It's got sweet potatoes stuffed inside leeks stuffed inside a banana squash—with vegetarian stuffing between each layer. And boy, is it a beauty. Check out the step-by-step intructions here.

Turducken with Cornbread-Sausage Stuffing

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What makes this turducken from The Food In My Beard so unique? Mostly the inner layers of stuffing separating each bird. The combo of sweet cornbread, tart cranberries, and hot Italian sausage is a trifecta of Thanksgiving deliciousness. Check out the gory (but fascinating) bird dissection tutorial right here.

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Turducken for Your Dog

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Don't deprive your pet of the multi-meat Thanksgiving fun: Merrick Pet Care has a full line of natural, grain-free dog and cat foods inspired by the turducken. There are just five ingredients: turkey, chicken broth, duck, chicken, and sweet potato. Not too shabby.

Turkey with Cupcake Stuffing

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Okay, so it's not technically a turducken, but we'd never seen a cupcake-stuffed turkey until we saw this one from food blog Cupcake Project. And maybe it's not so crazy: Isn't a nice homemade cranberry cupcake a better companion to your turkey than the boring cubes of white bread you normally use in stuffing? We're into it. Get the whole recipe right here.

TurDunkin'

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We simply cannot tear our eyes away from this nightmarish masterpiece from Unwholesome Foods. It's a turkey brined in Dunkin Donuts Coolattas, stuffed with roasted halved Munchkins, and doused in coffee gravy and a healthy coating of sprinkles.

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Cherpumple
When turducken just isn't enough to satisfy your craving for food stuffed inside other foods, you're ready for the Cherpumple: A cherry pie baked inside a white cake, a pumpkin pie baked inside a yellow cake, and an apple pie baked inside a spice cake, all stacked one on top of the other and coated in frosting. Original credit for this hybrid dessert goes to humorist Charles Phoenix, who demonstrates the proper assembly on his YouTube channel:

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Turbaconepicentipede
Have you ever seen the movie The Human Centipede? If you haven't, don't. But if you have, you'll recognize the concept behind Epic Meal Time's 802,420-calorie Turbaconepicentipede. The basic structure: A pig stuffed with a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a Cornish game hen stuffed with a quail stuffed with bacon. (Still with us?) Then: Repeat ten times, connect all pigs into one long chain, and garnish with actual Wendy's Baconator sandwiches. And bacon salt—can't forget that. Watch the process in its entirety right here:

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12-Bird True Love Roast
This might be the most elaborate turducken of all time: It's got turkey, goose, chicken, pheasant, three types of duck, poussin, guinea fowl, partridge, pigeon squab, and quail, each paired with a distinctly flavored stuffing. The UK company that manufactures this beast recommends 10 hours of cooking time plus two people to lift it into the oven. Of course, the payoff—feeding about 125 people with a single dish—is pretty good, too. And it's all yours for only 670 British pounds (or $1,010 USD). Check it out right here.

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Tofucken
We wouldn't be surprised if this mock-meat version of the turducken was developed more for the joke value of its name than it was to provide a tasty Thanksgiving meal. Bonus points if you sculpt your Tofurkey into the shape of a turkey head, as this recipe developer did in 2012 for food site Table Matters.