People who make not liking turkey their entire personality

All the hysteria about needing to eat turkey on Christmas Day is nonsensical.

But there isn't any hysteria. Is there? Or is it you?

You are my kind of people.

That's fine to me if you don't bang on about it here. I have foods I can't tolerate (and not too keen on turkey tbh! ) so I absolutely can't eat everything. I just don't think anyone needs to hear about me gipping and barfing.

I love a buttery perfectly cooked turkey . Not dry at all and makes Christmas day unique because it's the only time we have it. Beef, lamb, pork etc. are Sunday lunch staples all year round.

🤣🤣yep , noone cares

DH doesn’t like sprouts, he doesn’t make a big deal of it, just leaves them on the plate, every year without fail both his parents will spend a significant portion of December asking him if he’s going to eat a sprout, telling anyone who will listen how he won’t eat them etc. it’s a big part of the reason we don’t spend Christmas Day with them because it gets very tedious!

Being overseas for the season I thought I'd be avoiding them.
Yesterday I spent the day with android affectionados. It's a day I won't get back

Turkey is dry unless you smother it with butter and other stuff. And it's tasteless, pointless and boring.

Ive always said so and never bother with it..... At home.

I have chosen it for my works dinner though, I'm expecting the roasties to be worth it.

It’s perfectly possible to cook Turkey without it going dry. If you had dry chicken you would know it was overcooked, Turkey is no different.

Turkey is nice! To me it’s like chicken thigh flavour ish.

Chicken breast is pretty awful even though I eat a fair amount of it. I always think I should have more turkey year round.

DH has perfected the turkey over the years and I make phenomenal gravy with the juices and so it should with herbs, butter, bacon and a bottle of wine.

I'm not keen on the breast but happily eat the leg and wing meat.

I have never been a fan of turkey and we don't have it at holidays, but almost no one in my life actually knows that I don't like it.

I only ever buy crowns nowadays and I’ll usually try and get something pre-prepared (not cooked) from M&S, and a gammon (or ham) joint. I try to get as much as I can pre-prepared as I don’t want to spend all day in the kitchen as I have done before.

Yep I know the type. Myself dm and mil were chatting about Xmas plans. I simply said the dcs have requested beef and gammon so that's what we're having. Cue both mil and dm. Oh we're not bothering with turkey. It's dry. It's tasteless. Can't stand it.
Couldn't help but say, you didn't mind it last year when I cooked it. It wasn't dry nor tasteless. In fact you both asked to take leftovers home !

My dm has mentioned not having turkey probably 10 times this year.

"Yes. Going going on about it's dry. That's what gravy, cranberry sauce and bread sauce are for."

That's an admission that's it's dry 😁😁FFS

I LOVE turkey. Sadly my personality is being vegan so I have to turn my nose up at it with the other turkey dodgers, shake my head in sorrow as it arrives on the table, and performatively eat a nut roast.

I have never cooked a Christmas turkey, or had it for Christmas day for at least 30 years, and I am 55. I don't mention it unless people ask, but we tend to have a very nice piece of beef. Does that make me a turkey bore?

Haha! I would hope it's only their 'personality' on Christmas, as the rest of year it's pretty easy to dodge. I personally love it but only once a year.
The one thing I hate is people making turkey mince burgers claiming they're just as good as normal ones but so much healthier. Erm, no. They are shite. Lol.
So maybe I've got too much turkey hatred in my own personality!
If someone else was cooking me Xmas dinner there's no way I'd be complaining though. Whatever meat they served.

Oh yeah, I'm a turkey hater ✊ Not particularly loud or vocal about it tbh. Maybe I should lean into being more of a mouthy anti-turkey type. But it's definitely bottom of the roast dinner league table. Ain't no disputing that.

Just eat whatever you want, who cares? I don't mind turkey but I don't have to have it for Christmas, we have whatever we fancy that year, it varies massively. It's just an excuse to spend more than usual on food and have some crackers with silly hats that fit no one. (I do put my own gifts in though)
I look forward to Christmas dinner because it's a bit of extravagance, not because it's the same bloody thing every year. I don't go on about it though, no one would know what we are having unless they specifically ask. 🤷🏻‍♀️

But, you can have mine! It is a win win situation!

Haven't rtft so apologies if I'm repeating anyone else, but the Sprout Twats are way worse.

"BLLEEAUUGHHRRGRH I COULD NEVER EAT A SPROUT UUUGGHHH ITS A FART IN SPHERICAL VEGETABLE FORM"

No David, the delicious cruciferous delight will not kill you, it's fine not to like it but seriously shutthefuckupaboutit

Tbf my mil makes decent turkey, moist, with reasonable flavour and texture, and I can guarantee she only buys it from Asda. There’s a lot to be said for how you cook it.

I know how to cook a turkey. I still don’t like it that much, never have.

I still buy one and cook it though, cos the kids like it. I just eat beef instead. No biggie 🤷‍♀️

Every year my mum says she doesn’t like turkey, she’s not having it for Christmas dinner then has it for Christmas dinner and starts the cycle again 🙄 well last year she finally had beef instead and declared it wasn’t ‘Christmassy’ enough and she’s going back to turkey 🤣