Do you enjoy eating turkey?

Calistemon

Most of the family don't like turkey.

I like turkey but I couldn't eat a whole one.

I could

TillyTrotter

I love Turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, parsnips, sprouts, red cabbage, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets and good gravy on Christmas Day. I try to avoid it in December at any meals I might go out to as I enjoy it all the more on the 25th.

I enjoy it too and try to not have too many times in December, although will have it next week when out with a group of friends, our annual Christmas meal.
I also like turkey sandwiches.The one thing I don’t like is the smell in the fridge once you leave wrapped ( even well wrapped) cold cooked turkey in it.Small price to pay though.

Love turkey, especially the turkey sandwiches.

I don’t live abroad Judy54 but my son does. He’s in NZ and he’s having his dils traditional family meal of a bbq at the beach, a swim and pavlova for afters. Ds2 is having an ‘orphans’ Christmas in Canada with a friend, and apparently are deep frying a turkey with his friend…. ? One will spend it his Christmas in the sun, the other in the depths of ice and snow ?

It will be a mushroom and cashew layered loaf for md with mushroom and sherry sauce with all the usual trimmings. Is a Christmas meal I have had for 42 years. Is only made at Christmas

Many

Cooked may things over the years, turkey, beef, salmon, pheasant, goose etc.
However if doing 'traditional' looking lunch/dinner usually buy a Cockerell, they are large, and never dry!

I love turkey but DH doesn't, so he wins!!

I really do not like Turkey, my Uncle owned a large Turkey farm, and we would have about twice a month there were 3 of us and it was ridiculous. My Mother would roast it from 6.00 to 13.00 you can imagine what it tasted like, my Dad used to ask for gravy and she would become hysterical, asking where she had time to make it.
I once commented that she had all morning and she ran out crying. Saying she was not used to cooking 'fancy' food.

I like any meat but can't stand being overfaced with a large meal.

I am not a great lover of turkey, I prefer duck. So this year everyone else is having turkey and I am having duck with all the trimmings. A small turkey crown suffices and keeps them happy, no waste and eating it for weeks after.

Most of the family don't like turkey.

I like turkey but I couldn't eat a whole one.

What lovely responses from you all. It seems some of us have a traditional turkey Christmas dinner and others opt for something more to their taste. It set me thinking about what people outside the UK eat as their traditional Christmas meal. Any of you lovely people out there who live overseas it would be so interesting to hear about what is customary in the Country that you live in.

We love turkey, but other family members not so keen. So we usually cook another meat (lamb or pork maybe) as well if other family are eating with us. Funny how turkey always seems to taste even better cold on Boxing Day.

Fillet of beef for us, plus a turkey drumstick for husband, who likes dark turkey meat.

'refusing anything that has raisins or currents in it'
I wouldn't want to be electrocuted either!

Turkey is not just for Christmas!
One of my favourite meats.

I’m not much of a meat eater, just occasionally some chicken or fish. I’m not mad on turkey, prefer goose but it’s expensive and doesn’t feed many. I like a nice plump cockerel, lots of flavour and very juicy.

grandtanteJE65

I don't care for turkey very much, and fortunately grew up in a quite different tradition, so eat goose, duck or roast pork at Christmas, depending on how many we are going to be and who they are.

But I do miss ´Christmas pudding - I am now the only person left in the family who likes it or mince pies, so I don't have either. No point when all the rest of the family refusing anything that has raisins or currents in it.

I am sure I have seen really small individual Christmas puddings...

Please treat yourself!

We never have turkey. Gammon, beef or pork for us with all the trimmings.

We never have turkey, it's a good excuse for a really good piece of beef which we have with sprouts, braised red cabbage and a potato & celeriac galette. Delicious & something I always look forward to - we never have that combination of veg on any other day. We start with smoked salmon soup - again, I never make it at any other time of the year. It all goes towards a very special day...although this year it will be delayed til our daughter & partner come over and hopefully our son will then be home from working abroad. Merry Christmas to all GNs

I don't care for turkey very much, and fortunately grew up in a quite different tradition, so eat goose, duck or roast pork at Christmas, depending on how many we are going to be and who they are.

But I do miss ´Christmas pudding - I am now the only person left in the family who likes it or mince pies, so I don't have either. No point when all the rest of the family refusing anything that has raisins or currents in it.

My DH and I always had roast chicken as he didn't like turkey. Now at my DDs my SIL loves his turkey but I find I can only eat one small slice, affects my rapidly decaying digestion! Brussels are out now too - boo hoo, were my favourite veg too.

Do we have turkey at Christmas as it can feed a lot of people over the two day holiday? I can't figure why we in GB have turkey other than the volume of meat it provides. With the price of good meat nowadays a roast beef dinner would be more luxurious. I eat turkey but without all the trimmings, it's tasteless to me.

No. We used to have chicken when I was a child but I haven’t eaten meat for 50 years. I hate the mass slaughter at this time of year, it seems a very strange way to celebrate a time of peace and love.

We have the same nut roast every year, the best ever, made with hazelnuts and chestnuts and served with cranberry sauce. We have it with loads of veg including sprouts which I absolutely love.