Do you enjoy eating turkey?

When I turned vegetarian turkey was the only thing I missed. Thankfully I love the pretend turkey that is now widely available. We’re having veggie lasagne this year because it’s just me and my son and I can’t be bothered worrying about what will actually be available nearer the time due to the ongoing supply issues.

None of us are keen on turkey so we get a carry out meal of curry. Put it on a table and help ourselves! We all love it. It’s brilliant. Wee grandson has his favourite. Chicken nuggets and chips. I make his nuggets. Chicken cheese and cauliflower mixed to a pulp in my food processor and dipped in egg then home made crispy breadcrumbs. He loves them. I’m done for when he finds out there is a dreaded vegetable in there! lol.

I love Turkey. We always get our meat from our farmer who farms organically with free range grass fed animals. It is the kindest way I can think of rearing animals to eat.

The taste and tenderness is superb. But then so is all of his meat.

It’s just occurred to me that if I wasn’t having turkey, roast pork would still feel quite Christmassy, but beef or lamb certainly wouldn’t.
Why is that I wonder?

I seem to recall that when I was a child we’d have roast pork on Boxing Day, but what possessed my mother to want to cook a big roast two days running I have no idea!

I thought turkey tasted delicious before I stopped eating sentient animals, birds included. I miss the taste no end but that's not a reason to kill a creature; just for pleasure.

Another vegetarian here, so we have a lovely nut roast and I eat my one sprout a year as a nod to tradition. (One sprout a year is more than enough!)

We don't have turkey for Christmas dinner, this year we are having a lovely leg of lamb, something we don't have very often but we both enjoy it so much more. We usually buy a frozen turkey joint that you can get in supermarkets for about £3 and this is ideal fur turkey sandwiches we we quite like, especially with pickled onions.

Ps - can I do a ps on gransnet?
First year we were married and living in a flat in Belfast long before becoming veggie, my mother sent us a turkey on the bus which had to be collected at the bus station! Can't imagine that these days. I can even remember boxes of day old chicks being transported on the bus! Such was life in rural N.ireland.

We all love turkey, but as others have noted, it is the stuffing, pigs in blankets, cranberry and gravy which make it. Can't wait.

No, don't like turkey, I would be happy to share DD's nut roast.

I'm a farmer's daughter but haven't eaten meat for about thirty years. We have chestnut and red wine roast en croute. It's delicious. I do make home made bread sauce cranberry sauce etc. When I was a child we had our own turkeys and geese, killed for Christmas on the farm. I became vegetarian as I was unhappy about intensive farming methods in the 70s and 80s but really wouldn't enjoy meat now. Our adult children are all vegan, as is one grandchild. The others are vegetarian. In my meat eating days I did love turkey.

I love Turkey, but prefer the dark meat and the skin. Everyone else can have the white meat. DH loves the parsons nose - no fights over that! Ha Ha. I don’t eat potatoes or starchy veg, so Turkey, pigs in blanket and sprouts will do for me.

*too. At least that mistake wasn’t a rude one ?

LilyoftheValley after Baileys and before the mains. Don’t want to be to full to enjoy ?

DillytheGardener- ‘porn’ on Christmas Day !!!!
We will be having pork with all the trimmings as none of us is fond of turkey. Granddaughter doesn’t like sprouts but she has chocolate ones after lunch so she can say she’s had some

Just the two of us for Christmas Day. We are having a three bird roast which we have had, and enjoyed before. I'll do roasties, red cabbage and roast parsnips, cranberry sauce and gravy with it and maybe two or three sprouts each - for tradition!

Definitely not Christmas pudding although we do like it and will have it when the main course is something light.

We are going to DD on Boxing Day and I think she is doing fish, which suits us both and whatever it is, it will be a lovely meal as she is a very good cook.

We have turkey breast curry (korma usually) about once a week. Whether we'll go to the faff of roasting is another matter.

Never really liked turkey. Last year we tried a Norfolk Black - expensive and not that much different to a standard bird. Having leg of lamb this year.

I do a stuffed chicken breast cos it's only myself and my sister. When it was the whole family years ago the Boxing day dinner was always better cos it was a beef roast joint, the turkey was boring, but you felt you still had to have it.

No! Vegetarian for 52 years. But I've cooked the beasts.

Out of all the many prizes in a competition I once entered (unfortunately) I was the one to win a turkey which I do not like. I gave it to my neighbour and this was much appreciated as she was providing xmas dinner for her numerous relatives.

Dilly, how interesting! Do you have porn before or after lunch?! I dislike turkey so daughter and i are having Duck. Other years it has been fillet steak or lobster Thermidor.

Beef tastes nasty, has since childhood, lamb greasy & pork gives me upset stomach so never eat meat. At Christmas usually go to my DS & DDiL. Change this year so not going Christmas day, Boxing Day instead so no Turkey dinner with all the trimmings. As the only time I eat a proper roast dinner I am going to miss it. My DDiL cooks a lovely meal every year. So roll on next Christmas hoping I am still around then?

we dont like turkey ,having chicken this christmas.

Our vegetarian son comes for Christmas every year and always buys an expensive turkey and cooks a delicious dinner for us. Last year he made some wonderful stuffing for his own main. We couldn't get enough of it. This year we begged to have the stuffing as our main too, but he won't hear of it, and ordered the turkey ages ago. I guess that he remembers happy long past Christmas dinners with all the family around the table, so we are just grateful.