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?

I don't dislike turkey, but I find it bland compared to other poultry. I haven't had it roast for years, although I have it in sandwiches sometimes. We're having venison tomorrow. We've had various things in the past, goose, three bird roast etc.

No turkey here - bland, dull, dry meat that it is. As a kid my mum mostly did chicken, but these days my DP and I have whatever we feel like. It was Indian for a few years, then duck. This year it’s venison.

It took me years to realise I didn't like turkey. I do cook it at thanksgiving but we are having beef tomorrow - much prefer it.