People who make not liking turkey their entire personality

Gonna have to stop you there. Xmas pudding is fucking disgusting and always has been.

Yes they take to insulting your cooking skill and insisting you must have bought frozen turkeys that aren't lovingly hand-reared by the local farmer, they can't understand how they like something and you don't - how can that be? They think you must be broken, didn't do it right they can't compute - the Christmas programming has crashed.

I know, it’s like you’ve mortally offended them. 😂Are you a turkey, OP?
I’m indifferent to turkey. We have it cause it’s tradition, innit?! It’s ok, not my favourite meat. I prefer beef or chicken.

I don’t like lamb. Perhaps I am a rubbish cook but I don’t like it when other people or restaurants make it for me either.

I’ve made liking turkey my whole personality. I even buy it when it’s not Christmas.

I don't understand why the turkey lovers get so upset when people say they don't like it - they respond like someone is shitting on their Christmas - chill out - if you love turkey great - eat it for months after Christmas - who cares.

This is DH. He hates turkey with an absolute passion. purely on principle I think. Every time we’ve hosted Christmas he refuses to cook it (which is fine because he is the chef in our house and he is very good at it!) but don’t make it into a “thing”

i play a game and sneak it into food where I can. Eg made a cottage pie the other week. Turkey mince went in. He had no idea.

Hmm. As part of my job I ate an awful lot of turkey dinners. i never complain about food cooked for me but it absolutely was not my choice. I don't rate turkey at all and would never buy it. It's just a dull meat. One organisation I belong to now has a Christmas lunch, £20+ for turkey or vegetarian. I have to admit I chose not to go. £20 for a meal I don't like much is too much.

I'm not a fan of it but I honestly don't feel the need to vocalise it, no one gives a shit in the overall scheme of things. Guess what world, I don't like mushrooms either.

I know someone like this but it wasn't just turkey, she didn't do any traditions but always with an air of superiority. And always fake surprised if anyone else did 'you're cooking turkey? For Christmas?' 'Your kids dress up at Halloween?' Etc

So someone else could have been the shit cook! 😆

When they state it’s dry and tasteless like it’s a fact then yes, I assume they’ve never eaten a properly cooked one.

Anyone cooking for me a bloomin thing…. i’m grateful, happy and love sitting with my family.

Could serve me tinned sardines and i’d be grateful and probably think delicious

People seem to be uniquely shit at cooking turkey, they seem to manage just fine with all the alternatives😂

I don't roast meat all that often as the other members of my household are tending towards pescetarianism, but if I were going to roast a large prime joint of beef or lamb, given the enormous cost, I certainly wouldn't just be taking it out of its wrappings, putting it in a roasting tin and into the oven for the prescribed time and nothing else. Roasting any meat surely involves a few preparatory steps and care and attention in the cooking, as with any other form of cooking.

Tastes vary, I get that, but it does seem a bit perverse that those who have never been given roast turkey they've enjoyed are so insistent that this means it's inedible for everyone.

I was generally making small talk yesterday with a client, we were discussing Christmas dinner. I mentioned I’m not a big fan of turkey so instead we will get a leg of lamb. She looked at me like I’d shot a kitten in front of her, “how can you not have turkey? It’s traditional”
we had about 5 mins of the appointment left so I said “lucky you, you can have my share of the turkey” and smiled and bean dipped my way out of there, but she still looked enraged.
surely it’s a good thing? More turkeys for the turkey eaters, goose for real traditionalists and lamb/beef/pork/nutloaf or whatever for everyone else!

No. This article is very interesting on this point. Turkeys started to be bred in England in the 1500s and were a staple on the Christmas dinner table before Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2021/12/scrooges-prize-turkey-victorian-christmas-foodways-in-dickenss-a-christmas-carol/

I know the type! And I honestly don't get the "turkey is dry" thing. I like it. Suspect the turkey is dry people are also the "hate brussel sprouts people, who boil them for 5 hours.

so your “immediate thought” is that they’re shit at cooking rather than they may just not like Turkey

interesting

good to keep those kinds of bitchy comments in your thoughts

What an odd question. Of course I don’t make disparaging comments about other people’s cooking in front of children (or anyone else really), hence why I use the word thought in my post instead of “announced in the town square”. HTH.

It’s not arrogant…I think you need to have a wee look in the dictionary 🙄. It’s traditional for our family (and many others) and has been for years. Turkey IMO is just like a more flavourful chicken when it’s a decent quality and cooked well, that’s why some people get rather eye rolly at the incessant chatter about it being “dry and tasteless”, it’s really not if you buy good meat and cook it well.

@YaWeeFurryBastard would you say stuff like that in front of children? just curious

This. Then people try to explain how to get the best cooked turkey and it involves buttering, basting and shit load of other nonsense whereas a good cut of any other meat just needs to be cooked at the right temperature for the right amount of time to be perfect.

I can eat turkey but whenever I do cook it on Christmas Day I’m always a bit disappointed in the first bite when I remember that I could have just cooked a meat I prefer. Luckily I do a porchetta joint too so most of the turkey ends up on sandwich’s the next day where it is pretty delicious cold and with stuffing.

Turkey is not traditional at Christmas in England. Goose was the bird of choice.
Turkey is an inedicle import, helped by the marketing nouse of Bernard Matthews.
And @YaWeeFurryBastard, I can cook. I just choose to cook food I like, not what some marketing bod has insisted is the only thing to have.

How arrogant