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?

It’s not the greatest is it, we haven’t had it on Xmas day for over 20 years. A nice side of beef instead!

I did have some at a set meal the other day but only because I wanted all the trimmings. It was decent as turkey goes, but it’s just not as nice as any other meat so it’s not special enough for the big day. Just my opinion!

I’m not that into turkey, and usually have either roast lamb or venison casserole on Christmas Day.

I like turkey, especially turkey sandwiches, but being American, we don't usually have turkey for Christmas dinner. As usual with us, we are having ham this year.

Chicken for us, there are only three of us though

I don’t mind turkey, and the rest of the family are equally as ambivalent. We’re not having it. It’s a ‘treat’ meal, so there’s no way we’d have something none of us are massively bothered about.

I don’t like turkey so we have a capon, or sometimes beef. With all the trimmings. Yum.

Nope, having a chicken, so much nicer

No. And yes.
We have a gammon and a huge chicken as we prefer the taste to turkey.

But DD said she will miss dark meat so I've picked up a turkey leg from the butchers to cook alongside the chicken.

We have beef - no one likes turkey in my family so why suffer it

My partner usually does mutton but he’s not here for lunch tomorrow so I’m doing chicken

We host a big gang but as no one is pushed/attached to having turkey, we don't do it. We do ham fillets cooked 2 different ways. 4 free range chickens from a local family (next year we will have our own) and 2 large pieces of fillet of beef.

I have only every cooked it once ,we have leg of lamb every year as everyone loves that in this house .

Yes because mum likes it and she’s cooking. I’ve never been successful in getting her to change. I’d rather have goose as I love it but nobody else likes goose. Unlike some I prefer to keep the peace, my parents are unlikely to be hosting for much longer

Seeing so many people have lamb I am now questioning why that is never an option for us. I love lamb! But for some strange reason I have it in my head you can only have lamb after Easter up until autumn. Never questioned why 😂

Turkey, lamb and ham. There is only 7 of us and one is a veggie. We all like different meat 🍖

Large Haddock fillets bought from a fishmonger in Peterhead NE Scotland..😋😋

I figure the shepherds brought a lamb for Jesus. Plus it's too expensive for us most of the year, which makes it perfect for a treat.

Why would you?

No. None of us like it, we are porchetta this year, rib of beef last year. I’d rather have a decent chicken than a turkey.

We have chicken as we prefer it, and it's a better size for three people. When I was a kid we used to do a fancy roast but not turkey, beef Wellington, salmon , something like that. The German side of of the family does venison. Yum.

Pork for us

I’ve never had turkey for Christmas. We’ve had beef fillet the last three years (and this year). Previously we had lamb.

I’ve bought a turkey breast joint and a very small joint of beef, as there’s only the three of us and the dds aren’t massive meat eaters.

personally I’d rather have a chicken and I did when the kids were younger but one dd (both older teens) has decided she hates chicken and only likes turkey and the other one hates turkey and prefers beef. 🤦‍♀️.

think once the girls move out eventually and I have my own Xmas dinner I’m doing omelette and chips…

Dodent he support the butcher all year round.
He cant survive on once a year from everyone.

We have Turkey crown and love it.

We're having lamb, turkey, beef and gammon. There's only two if us so we really went silly this year. I dislike Turkey and leg of lamb (non halal) was half price and I couldn't resist. The gammon and beef ate cold cuts the Bixing Day picky bits in the evening when a friend comes over 😀