Beef for Xmas day?

[Fruitbatdancer]

We always have beef for Xmas lunch. GranDad was a poultry and pig farmer, by time Xmas cake around he couldn’t bare sight of turkey/ capon/ chicken and pork. And had ‘swapped’ with several beef farmers. So had a fridge/ freezer if beef!
Having talked about it at work I was surprised how many people also don’t do turkey/ chicken.
So yanbu = we have something different too
YABU = get out of town you freak turkey all the way

Final drip feed- our beef comes with horseradish, Yorkshire pudding, pugs in blankets and sage and onion stuffing 😊

I've been having beef every year since I was a very young child, no-one in my family likes turkey so we're certainly not going to eat it tomorrow!

Just me and DD on our own tomorrow so we're having our usual roast beef with Yorkshire puddings, carrots, peas, roast tatties and gravy.

Duck this year. We had partridge last year. Beef is something we would eat for Sunday dinner and not for a special occasion.

We usually have Duck. But life is too short to be fighting in the Waitrose aisles for that, so we've got a lump of beef that's going into the slowcooker tomorrow morning. Years ago, I had to provide the (in my opinion) pathetic option of a cheap chicken and bloody gammon. Fucking faddy eaters.

I'd love to try goose or a beef rib - maybe there will be some sold off cheap in two days? If not, never mind, there's always next year it will take me ten months to save up for them

Note to self: Americans really don't like to be called poncey and have no sense of humour.

We mix it up. Turkey (not so often anymore, although we do always buy a crown after Christmas for sandwiches), goose, duck, pork (which is what we always had when I was growing up in Denmark) or beef. Always a Christmas ham, too. This year it’s just me and my OH on Christmas Day and we’re having guinea fowl.

I don’t like turkey so we choose a different meat every year. This year is duck

We have different things each yeah. Turkey maybe 40-50% of the time. This year we're having beef and luckily also getting turkey at the in laws on Boxing Day. As long as I get roast potatoes and there are leftovers for sandwiches the next day I don't mind what we have!

@MrsTerryPratchett

Yanbu, gammon and beef here. No one particularly cares for turkey in our house.

@MrsTerryPratchett

Note to self: Americans really don't like to be called poncey and have no sense of humour.

This American had no idea what poncey meant until reading this thread but is not greatly offended by it.

Perhaps it's because NY is the rudest city in the US. That didn't bother us either.

New Yorkers react to being named ‘rudest city in America’

Beef here too with roasties, yorkies, pigs in blankets, roasted carrots and parsnips, red cabbage and gravy I haven't done turkey for quite a while now

We're having lamb, haven't had Turkey for years, even as a teenager my mum.made me a fillet steak! And yorkies every time!

YANBU!

We are ABT at Christmas. Anything But Turkey .

DP is the chef, and he’s doing a venison wellington this year. I can’t wait!

I'm vegan but DH always does something other than turkey for him and the DC. This year he has gotten right into using the slow cooker on a Sunday, so this year's Christmas dinner will be a joint of lamb and a joint of pork (he likes to do two meats at Christmas).
There'll be Yorkies too. Too good to only have with one type of meat!

Oh and there'll also be pigs in blankets (highlight for the DC) and both mash and roast potatoes (I prefer mash).

It's supposed to be an indulgent dinner. Why waste it on things that you aren't that keen on just for the sake of tradition?

Whatever gets your goat ( excuse the pun.)
Roast beef with Yorkshire puddings is always a mighty fine dinner. Enjoy!

Perhaps it's because NY is the rudest city in the US. That didn't bother us either.

Also my favourite American city. Coincidence? I don't think so!

There's only me and DH this year, and the kitchen's a disaster area (planning a new one in 2020), so I'm just doing a turkey crown, and a ham. Normally, I'd do goose - we have roast beef on New Year's Day and lamb at Easter, so some kind of bird makes Christmas a bit different.

The past 2 years, I've had goose delivery problems - 2017 Tesco sent 3 frozen ducks instead of one frozen goose (and then I managed to get a goose somewhere, and there was also a turkey crown for St Stephen's Day), last year they sent nothing at all, but 2 friends managed to get geese for me, and I had the obligatory turkey crown as well. This year, I thought I'd got away with just buying a crown, but nope - DH got a call from his butcher friend this evening - did we want 25 free chicken breasts? I think I am destined to be overwhelmed with poultry at Christmas, so am just going to go with it...

Beef here as I don't eat fowl of any sort. With stuffing, pigs in blankets etc... 😎

JigsawsAreInPieces can I ask why not? I've met a person who would only eat birds and pork, so white meat, but I've not met anyone that won't eat birds before

We have beef, a chicken and a vegetarian chestnut, leek and stilton pie, with Yorkshire puds too of course

The tradition comes from my side as nobody liked Turkey, DH was happy to adopt our Christmas feast, as no one liked Turkey in his family either, but they did Turkey every year anyway

Have had beef or turkey on Christmas depending on what we had in freezer (also farming background) but now it's generally turkey crown on Christmas Day and roast beef on New Year's Day

We had salmon one year!

I'm having lamb and DS is having gammon.

A few years ago we had a Chinese banquet. It was amazing. Chicken and sweetcorn soup, roast duck, dim sums. Loved it.

We always have turkey and cocktail sausages (mostly to please my very traditional parents), but SIL's making lamb this year. Didn't realize it was common in the UK though as she's lived in Turkey for 20 years, where they don't have actual turkeys 😂