Do you enjoy eating turkey?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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!)

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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