To think that roast turkey is the poor relation of the roast dinner family?

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There's a reason most people only consider eating it once a year. Personally I'm happy to snub turkey on Christmas day too.

Turkey is so bland and unexciting, chicken, pork, beef, duck all make a superior roast. I know it's good for feeding large mobs of relatives on Christmas Day and has that nifty effect of inducing drowsiness thus limiting post dinner rows between Aunty Mabel and Uncle Howard's second wife but surely this is the only positive that can be said for it? Is everyone with me on this?

Gobble on ungainly turkey, you're not welcome here.

No. Turkey is wholesome.

I love turkey, can't be having roast beef at all.

I agree. Turkey is my least favourite meat to roast. I made a huge Beef Wellington last year and it went down a storm with everyone.

It is if you buy it from Asda like my DM does every year.

Turkey is boring, I never cook it at Christmas.
I was considering it this year, as I was going to do a traditional American Thanksgiving meal, but I'm going to do half a pig's head instead.
Last year we had fillet steak, the year before rabbit, before that pheasant, and before that duck.
Before that I had to eat out with my Dad and have the turkey.

I hate turkey, its bland, would rather have beef (real meat) but i do try and eat turkey once a year .

I agree!

I made turkey stir fry the other day and DH didn't notice. He thought it was chicken

Plus they are too big and thus a pita to cook.

My mum does a lovely turkey. Gets it from a farm up the road, smothers it in bacon and the stuff she does with it is heaven.

I gave upi the traditional turkey a couple of years ago, we have a much tastier Christmas dinner without it! I do a cherry coke gammon, skirlie-stuffed chicken & loads of amazing side dishes instead, and do not miss it!

It's traditional innit.
I wanted goose last year but ds huffed and insisted on bland boring turkey again.
I will attempt to change his mind again this year, but he loves turkey.

I will eat turkey during the year, mince and drumsticks, breast even, but it's an everyday meat, not a celebratory one.

Turkey is very dull. I'd rather have beef. In fact I'd rather have steak and chips.

I hate turkey. It's dry and tasteless. And you seem to have to chew it forever.

I love duck and goose.

Oh I love a turkey dinner. Christmas dinner is probably my fave meal of the year! I'm not a big fan of roast beef though... Chicken makes the superior roast for me, closely followed by lamb.

Turkey is delicious, specially the dark meat on a good free range bird.

I wont even but it when it is reduced to silly prices in the supermarket.

YAbu I love turkey. I want one of those giant oil pita you can get in America to cook it in.

knockknockpenny Your Christmas dinner sounds yum!

I'm counting down with you Panzee.

My Dad cooks turkey beautifully, It's the first thing you smell when you walk though the front door on Christmas morning.

DH, the kids and I ended up in a really dreadful carvery one lunchtime in a seaside town.

We had to queue for ages to be presented with a choice of extremely dry beef, pork, ham and turkey. The turkey was desiccated beyond belief, much worse than the other choices. Yet, everyone else in the queue was going wild for it. None of us could understand it.

Clearly the residents of at particular seaside town just love tasteless, dry turkey served with a tiny yorkshire pudding, not very good roast potatoes, overlooked carrots, peas, sweetcorn, cauliflower cheese (the kind where the cauliflower completely disintegrates when you put your cutlery near it) and a bucketload of gravy. You needed a bucketload of gravy to make any of it vaguely edible.

Turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast spuds and sprouts? BRING IT ON!

I hate turkey, we stay at home for christmas dinner and I always cook a chicken because there are only 3 meat eaters here.

We love roast chicken, it's the most requested meal and at christmas I do lots of extras that I wouldn't always cook on a sunday. We also have a starter and pudding and cheese. then get rolled to the sofa for the afternoon

I don't like turkey the way I cook it . Mum/dad do it well though.

My favourite roast is lamb. No contest.

DH doesn't like turkey but insists on and eats it at Christmas .

I converted the PILs to goose last year after at least thirty years of pallid turkey. They had been totally catsbum about not having turkey in the day and about the cost (only an extra £10-£15 which across ten people is nothing)... But they couldn't argue with the flavour and texture. I also converted them to including cauliflower cheese in your big roast.

We never had roast turkey growing up. Lamb, goose, duck, beef... Frankly anything but turkey.

Turkey thigh is ok for curry (cheap and strong) and breast for stir-fry (cheap and light) but not as the centrepiece.

I do turkey at Christmas but I don't cook as much of it as would normally be used to serve the number we have, instead I do loads of pigs in blankets - that way I can pretend I am being traditional but it is really tasty too.