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Whole stuffed camel is a dish consisting of a medium-sized camel engastrated with a sheep or a lamb, in turn stuffed with other ingredients.

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Although the recipe has been published in a number of cookbooks and recipe webpages, and claimed to be a traditional Arab wedding dish, the recipe is often treated with skepticism, and many think it might be an exaggeration of a real, less impressive, culinary experience. A posting on Snopes describes references in the recipe that might lead the reader to the conclusion that the recipe is, in fact, a joke, including instructions to "skin, trim, and clean the camel (once you get over the hump)...".

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Reference to this recipe is made in the comedic novel I Served the King of England, first published in 1971 by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal as a traditional Ethiopian dish cooked for a visit to Prague by the Emperor Haile Selassie.

The Guinness Book of World Records lists the recipe as the "largest item on any menu in the world", "prepared occasionally for Bedouin wedding feasts.". According to the Milwaukee Journal, the steps are:

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Cook eggs. Stuff eggs into fish. Cook the fish. Stuff the fish into cooked chickens. Stuff the cooked chickens into roasted sheep. Stuff the roasted sheep carcass into a whole camel . . . now cook to taste.

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There is a reference in culinary expert Richard Sterling's book The Fearless Diner in which he claims to have met someone who cooked the entire recipe for "some sheik or other," in Saudi Arabia. Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle contains a recipe for camel stuffed with dates, plover eggs, carp, seasoned bustards, and sheep, baked for two days on hot coals in a trench.

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Remastered CD editions of Pink Floyd's album "Atom Heart Mother" include a "Breakfast Tips" card. This card features, on one side, a recipe for a "Traditional Bedouin Wedding Feast." The recipe describes a culinary method of stuffing a chicken inside a lamb, which is then placed inside a goat, and finally all are stuffed inside a camel to be cooked over a charcoal fire.

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