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

[squoosh]

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.

Can't abide turkey. Lovely crispy roasted ducks for us last Christmas. ILs torn between cats bum faces and pride that their sainted 1st born (DH) had done a lovely job on cooking the lunch. This year we are buggering off to Lanzarote with my family and it'll be fine wines, cheese and Serrano ham all the way

going out for lunch today - hoping there'll be tasty turkey!

I am a bit anti anything made with dried fruit too - my only exception to the rule is Panettone. Now that is good stuff. I ate a whole one once. It was as big as my head and much more delicious

I feel an urge for a good roast dinner now reading this thread. DH will be pleased if I bother my arse to make one on Sunday - not too early for a Christmas dinner rehearsal is it?

I like turkey, most of family don't.
So we get beef Xmas day and Chicken on boxing day.

YABU

I've been a vegetarian for 17 years and the only meat I miss is turkey!