People who make not liking turkey their entire personality

We have never had it, but its only one part of the meal, we just choose another meat to go with the four thousand potato products I cook

People who like chicken but not turkey.... eyeroll

Every piece of turkey I have ever eaten has been as dry as my arsehole an I've eaten it at some very posh London restaurants. It's just not for me.

Every other Christmas food though and I'll eat it by the bucket load. Anyone who hates sprouts send them my way! Hate Christmas cake? I'll eat that too. Nom, nom.

Goose is absolutely game.

Give over, if mil wasn’t coming we’d have beef wellington.

we’re having turkey (for her - crown, I can’t be dealing with that big bony bird) and ham (for snacks) AND beef (for me!)

There'll be no leftovers beyond the end of Boxing Day.

Christmas = meat imo 🤤

My mum makes hating poultry , an entire personality trait ( a very annoying one ) , she even calls it “ dead bird”

I don't mind it, it's just a bit boring so we have something else on Christmas Day and have done for the last 30 years or so.

I'm the idiot that buys and cooks turkey every Christmas despite it being my least favourite meat 🤷🏼‍♀️ I just get it for tradition I think. Every year I regret my choice while I'm eating my Christmas dinner but I'll still buy it again the following year.

I'm always fascinated by the people who angrily recite an obviously well-memorised list of Christmas things they hate. I particularly enjoy it when they do it on MN, on multiple threads. It must be cathartic I suppose. Posts like:

I hate turkey, dry and horrible, just why
Hate Christmas cake
Hate Christmas pudding
Hate mince pies
Can't stand booze in puddings, sherry trifle ugh
Cheese, don't see the appeal
Gravy ruins a meal
Cranberry sauce, fruit with meat, why would you
Pigs in blankets, so salty

I was listening to nigel slater on Turkey last night in his Christmas chronicles.

Not a fan.

I adore cold sliced turkey in a deli, hand cut but I don't ever fancy it for Xmas day at all. I enjoy school type turkey toast dinners you get at this time of year and it's a nostalgia I think for school dinner. As a child we never had turkey, usually a fabulous rib of beef. My dad cooked the best rib of beef ever I've never had anything come close and his gravy! All sorts sloshed in from port, sherry, veg juice beef stuff..

Amazing.

We have had goose it was OK and duck etc.

I love Christmas dinner and everyone I know has it and loves it. Veggies excepted who have a different nut roast type main with all the trimmings.

is this a class thing? I’ve never met anyone who has anything but turkey for traditional christmas dinner! (I don’t know any meat eaters who don’t eat chicken)

Genuine question as now I'm curious. Is a turkey difficult to cook? I'm vegetarian so I don't often cook meat. I buy a turkey joint and cover it with bacon as there is only one adult and one child with a delicate appetite who will eat it at my table. I've never done a full turkey before. I can roast a chicken (not a Mumsnet one as I can't carve it. I tried once, the knife hit a bone and I've not faced trying again since 😁) I'm now wondering if that also means I could roast a turkey should the occasion ever call for it, or will I be unknowingly serving dried out misery?

I’m a turkey hater, just don’t like the flavour or texture at all.
we never have it for Christmas dinner, we don’t eat it any other time of the year either. Not going to waste a banging Christmas dinner on something I don’t like! Beef and ham all the way for us!

I feel attacked too

I'm a bad cook obviously... I don't remember cooking a turkey when I was 4 but that's when I knew I didn't like turkey, or goose, or duck, or chicken so as I don't like them why would I cook them?

We're having Gammon and Beef this year and if any of my guests have a problem with my bad cooking skills they can go and host ... which they never do

All the people claiming to be great cooks, I wouldn't touch your turkey with a barge pole either, I guess that makes you bad cooks too 😜

I agree that some people like to go on about how they don’t like it and wouldn’t dream of having it etc as if it somehow makes them superior because they’re having beef wellington or goose or whatever instead.

That wasn’t a dig at you @Ladylangstrand I didn’t see your post 😁

Turkey is just about acceptable if it's cold, thinly sliced in a sandwich with mayonnaise and salad, and maybe a bit of bacon to make it taste of something.

This just made me snort into my tea. You’re right. Same with Xmas pudding

I hated turkey before it was cool to hate turkey. I'm an OG turkey hater with turkey hating street cred.

But turkey is horrible that's why people say these things 😂

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It can hardly be more boring than chicken! I think a lot of people overcook it because they only have it at Christmas and they’re doing lots of other things. I don’t hate it, I don’t love it, but it’s never dry. We usually have a selection of meats and then all the more to have cold on Boxing Day!!

not as much as those who post daft hyperbole like this! 😆

I'm not a fan but I don't tell people. I just enjoy my beef Wellington on Christmas day, quietly.