Geese in Jane Austen

We have had goose at Christmas.

Growing up, it was always farmyard ducks or geese,

Never turkey.

I have never eaten geese. The other thing they used to eat is swan ( Tudor times ) but I think they are protected now. I have eaten crocodile , it wasn’t too bad, a bit like chicken. I have also eaten kangaroo but didn’t like it one little bit! Jane Austen must have been wealthy I think having time to write novels and living in a place where geese were on the menu ( even though it was just her characters)

I think, as this thread progresses, you will find that lots of people eat goose at Christmas.
My sister in law, farming family, usually had it and at various times throughout the year.
My daughter cooked goose one Christmas. We're not keen on it. It's fatty and there's not much flesh on the bird.
It certainly has not gone out of fashion I would say.

We used to eat goose (instead of Turkey) for Christmas lunch sometimes when I was growing up we occasionally had Duck or Pheasant but never Turkey. I have been a vegetarian now for nearly 40 years so am struggling to remember the taste but I do remember it was flavoursome and we all enjoyed it. Our local butcher supplied these

As the title says, I am currently reading 'Emma' and I was struck by the references to geese in this and other novels.

In 'Emma,' Mrs Martin of Abbey Mill Farm gives a present of a goose to Mrs Goddard, who, as we are told, dressed it on a Sunday and invited the other teachers to sup with her. I presume that she gave it over to her cook to be plucked and prepared.

Emma gives Robert Martin a goose as part of her apology for the way she treated him over Harriet Smith.

In 'Mansfield Park,' Mr and Miss Crawford are driven out of the house as a result of the ill temper of Dr Grant over his disappointment over a 'green goose ' (A 'green goose?!)

As far as I remember, I have never eaten goose and I wonder if anyone here has ever eaten it. Is it just one of those foods that have gone out of favour in modern times? Which other foods have gone out of fashion?