AIBU to serve turkey on Christmas Day?

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We have relatives coming over to our house on Christmas Day. They prefer not to have turkey. Its not that they don't like it, it's just that they prefer other things. Apparently it can be a bit dry.

DH, I and my DC love turkey and whilst I know we can have it whenever, we don't. Also, for me Christmas lunch is turkey and we really enjoy it.

We are pretty much obliged to cook Christmas lunch, I won't bore you with the details. AIBU to think that I should at least be able to have turkey if I want it. My house, I'm doing the cooking and no one is allergic to it. They just prefer beef!

Don't be dictated to by your guests, if you all want turkey. It can be quite expensive to get beef or goose large enough to feed a crowd, but at least with turkey a normal sized one will feed a few more!

I can't believe so many people think it's ok for guests to dictate what you should be cooking.

You are cooking, they should graciously receive what you have made them and that's the end of it.

Do turkey and lots of pigs in blankets, then tell them they can have those if they're not fancying the turkey. But definitely do turkey and enjoy it

Well I hate turkey, I'm having lamb. My daughter's cooking and she hates it too, She's doing a turkey crown and a leg of lamb.

Dry turkey?

Isn't that why we serve a gallon of cranberry sauce and gravy with Christmas dinner?

Ooh I can wholeheartedly recommend the Phil Vickery turkey method, never dry and cooks quickly.

Turkey is often dry because we cook it far too long. Phil's method cooks it quickly.

Turkey's one of those things that I've never heard of anyone "hating" before. Yes, it's fairly bland and can be dry if not cooked properly, but it's "meh" at worst surely?

If it was me hosting, I probably would bow to pressure and cook a small piece of beef alongside the turkey. Even though I, personally, don't like beef (I don't like the texture of red meat).

As a guest, I wouldn't expect anybody to cook anything special for me though. If red meat was being served, I would just ask for vegetables & gravy (and pigs in blankets of course, if available ).

I would do a turkey and gammon and try not to roll my eyes when they all ask for seconds of the turkey.

I have done the two joints thing for the last five years. No more. It has driven me to the very edge of sanity.
Do turkey.

I always do Turkey and get few duck breasts from butcher as well. They are simple to roast in oven, and I use the fat to roast potatoes and vegetables. Makes dinner little more special. Also do bread stuffing and potato stuffing( my grannys recipe 😋)

Just tell them you're doing beef on Boxing Day, so you don't want it two days running. If you do both, they'll probably expect Yorkshires too, so say you haven't got room in the oven.

Cook a ham! Bugger all to do with your guests, but it will enable you to sit around eating club sandwiches on Boxing day and planning ridiculous demands to visit them with next year...

I'd be thinking along the same lines of your guests, I hate turkey and wouldn't entertain the idea of having it in the house full stop, let along for my Christmas dinner!
However, if anyone was hosting me, I'd keep my gob shut and eat what I was given. It's not like there's nothing else to go with the Christmas dinner, there's so many sides I wouldn't go hungry by abstaining from the turkey!
We have a huge houseful for dinner, everyone knows they'll get goose, beef and a ham, if they want turkey they will go elsewhere. No one ever does
I wouldn't be offended if any of them decided they really fancied a traditional turkey dinner, they just won't get it from me (or from dp, who actually does all the cooking!).

WE always have turkey and a gammon.
Beef creates too many debates about how rare to have it and ends up with everyone moaning.
If you’re buying and cooking you get to choose what you cook. Bread sauce stops any dryness.

Give them goose and let them complain that it's too greasy.

I always cook turkey upside down on its back, legs in the air. Juices stay in that way. Learned the trick from my Mum, who does an amazing Turkey christmas dinner. Cook the turkey, make sure it is deliciously moist and surprise the cheeky feckers.

MiL does chicken breasts and gammon, cooked the day before and served cold, with watery gravy over the top to heat it on the day. And peas! fucking PEAS in midwinter!

Can you tell I'm not so keen on MiL's version of christmas dinner.

My side of the family have switched to beef, but my in-laws still have dry turkey. If you want turkey have turkey!