The Turducken meme draws its name and structure from the culinary dish consisting of a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey. In internet culture, it represents the concept of recursion or 'inception,' where one idea is nested within layers of increasingly larger contexts. It is frequently used to illustrate complex situations where multiple problems are hidden inside one another or to mock meta-commentary on social media. While it peaks in popularity during the Thanksgiving season, it remains a staple for technical humor, particularly in programming or philosophy, where 'layers' are a common metaphor for complexity and abstraction.