To cook a chicken on Christmas day?

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I can buy a higher welfare chicken for less £ than a lower welfare turkey. And it will be lovely.

No, chicken is lovely. We are having chicken!

We are also having chicken

I'd much rather have chicken on Christmas Day than turkey.
Damn traditions

no, god no. I'd take a decent chicken any day over a turkey.

We did it one year and told the kids it was turkey. They were all very suspicious
Nothing wrong with having chicken.

Chicken here too! Yayyyy!!!!!!! Go chickens....

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We like chicken for Christmas day too, especially with just 2 adults + 2 children.

This year MIL is coming to stay and we're having a big lump of beef with yorkshire puds. She'll probably fret about pinkness, she usually does...

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Heston of Fat Duck is having chicken, you are in good company

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I never had turkey til I left home - DM refused to cook it since she couldn't stand it so we always had chicken. Not that I minded, got loads of lovely bread sauce with it!

My ds came into the kitchen the other day saying "mummy I think we should have goose this year. It's much more traditional" he'd been watching Michel Roux.

I'm force feeding him chicken for that...

I've had chicken for Christmas. One year we cooked a ham. I'd like to cook a goose but their huge.

Cook whatever you like.

Heston having chicken? Yay! Ds and I like Heston.

Oh and I LOVE bread sauce!

I love Roast chicken but make it regularly over the year.
I need something a bit different at Christmas so Turkey it is.
I tried to persuade ds 18 last year to try Goose which I've never had but he was not having it.

We are having beef. Have what you will enjoy.

We're having chicken. With all the trimmings.

No matter how it is cooked turkey is like eating cardboard.

Chicken is easier and has actual flavour .

I am going to tell DD that it's turkey as she has her heart set on a traditional Christmas diner .

I'm thinking about just having a chicken, this year it's just me and the 2 dc, and they'll barely eat it anyway. Turkey seems so expensive but then I've always been invited round to family before

Damn it, I'm not BU .

My first AIBU, and I didn't get remotely flamed. Must Try Harder.

I'm having chicken. Just me and DS (20). Husband buggered off nearly 2 years ago, last year we spent Christmas with older DS's family, they're away this year. TBH - prefer chicken to turkey anyway!

Chicken here too. A big free range organic one for half the price of the same sized over-farmed turkey. It's just a bit of plain, low fat meat to go with the real reason for Christmas dinner - pigs in blankets.

I'm doing a rack of lamb for three, salmon steak for one and goats cheese tartlets for the other two plus usual veg.

No-one apart from me likes a bird or Xmas pud or Xmas cake so I never get to eat a traditional Christmas dinner on Christmas day.

A quality chicken sounds good to me.

We're having chicken and ham.