People who make not liking turkey their entire personality

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They're annoying aren't they?

AIBU?

Being overseas for the season I thought I'd be avoiding them.
Yesterday I spent the day with android affectionados. It's a day I won't get back

DH doesn’t like sprouts, he doesn’t make a big deal of it, just leaves them on the plate, every year without fail both his parents will spend a significant portion of December asking him if he’s going to eat a sprout, telling anyone who will listen how he won’t eat them etc. it’s a big part of the reason we don’t spend Christmas Day with them because it gets very tedious!

🤣🤣yep , noone cares

I love a buttery perfectly cooked turkey . Not dry at all and makes Christmas day unique because it's the only time we have it. Beef, lamb, pork etc. are Sunday lunch staples all year round.

That's fine to me if you don't bang on about it here. I have foods I can't tolerate (and not too keen on turkey tbh! ) so I absolutely can't eat everything. I just don't think anyone needs to hear about me gipping and barfing.

You are my kind of people.

All the hysteria about needing to eat turkey on Christmas Day is nonsensical.

But there isn't any hysteria. Is there? Or is it you?

Not from me. I have never bought a turkey in my life. But then I don't really do Christmas dinner. There do seem to be endless news articles about possible turkey shortages, issues with turkey orders, people moaning that some supermarket ruined Christmas by not bringing a turkey etc etc... on repeat, every year. I tend to zone it all out!

Game is wild rather than farmed. Geese are farmed. Game birds are pheasant, partridge, pigeon etc.

When I was at Junior school they laid on Christmas lunch near the end of the autumn term. It was a Special Treat and we were meant to be very excited about it.

The only bit of it that I liked and ate happily was the roast potatoes with gravy.
Turkey? Nope.
Stuffing? Double nope.
Sprouts? Do me a favour!
Parsnips? Nope.
Christmas pudding? Boak. I mean Nope.
Mince pies? Nope.

Oh, I didn't mind the custard that we had with the pudding instead of cream or brandy butter.

But I was very popular with my little friends when I surreptitiously passed all the stuff I preferred not to eat onto their plates when no member of staff was watching. It's the easiest way to get out of food you aren't keen on.

I later married a human dustbin who makes dangerous foods safe for me, flinging himself manfully on the unexploded parsnips and sprouts.

He wouldn’t be popular here. If you’re not going to eat sprouts, leave them in the serving dish so someone else can have them!

You can farm anything including pheasant, pigeon etc. No idea why you think goose can’t be wild. Game includes goose.

There are whole songs about the wild goose and footloose men wanting to be like the wild goose.

Even the very best cooked turkey will never compare to well cooked beef or lamb. It seems really weird to choose something so meh for a celebratory meal.

However, I just quietly get on with eating what I like and leave others to theirs.

I never understood the appeal and excitement over a Christmas dinner, it’s ok but I’m not thrilled.

These days the meat you can't really afford except on high days and holidays is lamb, not turkey.

Traditionally, in this country, what you ate at Christmas was beef, not turkey, new-fangled bird that it is. Or indeed goose, like in Dickens.

I have eaten dry turkey, but I brine mine, slide sausage meat stuffing under the skin and put streaky bacon slices over it and then follow Nigella's cooking times (shorter than most). So moist and tasty. Never dry.

Excellent points. I sometimes buy turkey mince to make meatballs. Other than that I don't buy turkey during the year, and one reason is that the high welfare birds are (a) a special expensive treat for Christmas and (b) not that easy to get hold of outside the festive season. If all I could afford was a frozen mass produced turkey, I'd think of something else to have instead. My roast turkey is never dry.

Most meat is expensive if it's been produced to high welfare standards, and so it should be.

By the way, Scrooge sends the Cratchit family a turkey in A Christmas Carol, so Dickens played his part in making this new-fangled bird the standard fowl to roast at Christmas.

Some people make not liking lots of things their personality, plus probably a percentage of those who claim an allergy.

Yes, Scrooge bought the Prize Turkey, but I checked the text at Project Gutenberg and goose is mentioned repeatedly as what they were having in the first place.

"There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn’t believe there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs. Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn’t ate it all at last! Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows! But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda, Mrs. Cratchit left the room alone—too nervous to bear witnesses—to take the pudding up and bring it in."

It is very tiresome indeed!

I don’t eat meat any more but when I did I kind of took the view it’s a once a year thing (and actually perfectly nice with all the trimmings!). My favourite bit was the stuffing (nlt). I will really miss my Mum’s pork and chestnut stuffing.

Although I’m sure the veggie option my cousin is making for the three of us who don’t eat meat will be really lovely too!

God yes! I was at a Christmas dinner event last night and everyone wanted to tell me that they were having beef, not turkey. Followed by all the perceived disbenefits of turkey. Tedious.

And the Turkey was delicious btw.

As a family, we despise turkey and make sure to mention that fact to anyone who has experienced Christmas.

We find that songbirds are much more flavourful and succulent. Their small size also means that they cook quickly. This year we're having dunnocks.

We never have turkey. Different traditions.