If you don’t like Turkey, are you still having it tomorrow?

[CheeseWisely]

I don’t actually mind it, although we don’t have it on Christmas Day, but I grew up year after year with Grandparents who’d make the full turkey roast and then comment throughout that it would be so much nicer with lamb / beef. Buy the bloody lamb instead then! It’s not the law to have turkey!

Didn't understand it then, don’t understand it now!

Now the Grandparents are gone DH and I usually have an expansive cheese / meat / pickles board, and my Parents often go to an Indian restaurant near them on Christmas Day. We all eat our favourite treat thing.

Obviously if you’re being hosted and that’s what the hosts genuinely like, or you’re hosting and your guests genuinely like turkey then fair enough but I know of whole families who don’t enjoy it but just unquestioningly do the same thing every year because ‘tradition’.

So if your family don’t like turkey, are you still having it tomorrow? Why? And if you’re not, what do you have instead?

We are having this.

https://www.thevegspace.co.uk/vegan-christmas-dinner-recipe-kale-lovers-christmas-pie/

Because I can have the other 'treat' food for the rest of the year if I want, but a roast turkey dinner (with all the accompaniments and number of guests) is only really available at Christmas.

Duck instead

Totally agree with you! Have something you really enjoy. We either have a beef wellington or steaks alongside the traditional winter veg. Same with pudding - dont like trifle and won’t be having that will have something with cherries and cream. Enjoy your meal tomorrow 🌟

Three of us are pescatarian, the other two totally flexible as to what they eat, so it's salmon here.

I won't pay inflated prices for something I hate so it's chicken here!

1/3 of the cost and so much nicer. Been looking forward to it for weeks now

This year we are having roast beef. We very often have a vegan/veggie nut roast - to counter the mountains of homemade pigs in blankets/sausage rolls we’ll have been grazing on since Xmas eve…
Ill often go for the turkey dinner for the office meal out but wouldn’t dream of cooking it myself

Yes - still having turkey even though I don’t like it and I am the one cooking it 🙈 my 81 yr old dad couldn’t imagine Christmas without turkey, (my dad pays for it and gets it from the local butcher whom he likes to support once a year 🤦🏽‍♀️) my dc want it too - not because they like it but ‘tradition, and grandad’ 😩. Most years I cook a chicken to have alongside it but this year I am doing beef which I can’t bloody wait for! Watch those turkey lovers come for my beef though 😱😂

No why would I have something I don't like. I've not had turkey on over ,40 years

Not a fan of Christmas dinner at all. I’d rather get a takeaway or even make a lasagne lol. Here I am making it again but with chicken as kids prefer that. They do like a roast so least they eat it.

No - none of us like the traditional Christmas meal so we have a cold buffet instead.

We’re having beef. Seem to alternate between lamb and beef.

We're having Turkey, Gammon, Beef and chicken nuggets ( autistic child). we're not lovers of Turkey but my parents our, we love cold Turkey sandwiches in the evening and the next day. My parents like cold Gammon sandwiches or with egg and chips and any remaining Beef will no doubt be gone by 27th. I do enjoy lamb but my boys don't like the smell so won't be doing that. I also will be doing roast, mash, boiled and waffles and then stuffing both with sausage meat and without and then all different veg. I do have help though so not just me doing everything. I don't know the last time I cooked 1 meal for everyone. I do alot of batch cooking to make my life easier and I have the time

I host and cook the dinner most years and I never do turkey. Beef or lamb here, once or twice duck and have also done a chicken one year which is ten times nicer than turkey imho. Got slow cooked lamb this year.

We are doing duck this year. I don't mind turkey but my DH cooks and he fancied a change. Need some good leftover duck ideas as there will be lots leftover.

No, we're having beef and ham instead, makes better leftover sarnies too.

I must confess I have some sliced turkey in the fridge for a big sandwich with Brie and cranberry at some point!

We have a roast chicken every year. Much, much cheaper and makes much more sense as there's only two of us.

No. Lobster this year.

Im not a huge fan of Turkey and I am cooking it. The main reason being it serves the right number of people at a price we can afford. The equivalent amount of beef or lamb was twice the price.
I do actually really like the trimmings like bread and cranberry sauce and they dont go with beef and lamb, although I've done them with chicken and thats just as good, but we'd need 2-3 chickens i think so its easier to do one turkey.

I don't mind it, but it's definitely not something I would choose but yes we are having turkey :)

There's only me, ds and my parents this year. Me and dm are vegetarian, df doesn't like turkey and lucky ds is getting two dinners, one of which will be turkey,(split Christmas with exdp who is taking ds to exmil).

So I have a 'serves two' slow cooked beef shank that looks absolutely delicious for ds and df, leftovers of the meat will go to the cat. Me and dm will just have the spuds, stuffing and veg of which there will be plenty!

No and we will be having beef.

We have a duck/turkey/guinea fowl combo this year. It’s nice to have a bit of turkey but I find it a bit boring by itself.

We are hosting again on Boxing Day and doing beef then.

We have a choice of turkey , gammon or a vegetarian option tomorrow , or a mix of all 3 .