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mmmmm! 😀
Dunt sound very nice... TURD.. Shouldn't be a Durckey?
Durckey?
wheres the chicken in that?
Its a small chicken inside a duck inside a turkey
Maybe "Chiduckey"?
The trouble with turkey is that to get good quality to feed 15+ you are talking upwards of 80 quid.
Which buys a really nice joint of beef, pork, or lamb
Chickduckey is better than Turdwhatsit... Not sure I's go for it though. Wassit like?
It's not absolute rubbish, I know food and I know that turkey is god awful. It's only eaten at christmas because the yanks told you that's what they do!
Sorry, but that's utter bobbins!!
Turkeys were first brought over here in the 16th century... around the time that the potato was first brought here, so Yanks didn't even exist then!
At first turkey was a luxury, and goose was the traditional meat served at Christmas... mostly I think because pretty much everyone had them! I think it was Henry VIII how was the first monarch to have turkey for Christmas... after which it become very fasionable.
So if you want to blame anyone for us eating turkey.. blame Henry!
Oh, and if you buy a properly reared bird, and cook it properly then turkey is lovely, and tastier than chicken.
My main reason for not eating it more often is that they are big, even the smallest is about 10lb, and it's only available from out local farm at Christmas. Then, because they have grown up in a field, they have massive legs... which are great when boned and rolled with stuffing inside before roasting...
I was going to cook venison for everyone last year (about 14 of us) for a change. Went to the butcher who offered me eight legs, but I decided not too as I thought that was too dear.
That and I'm a vegetarian.
My main reason for not eating it more often is that they are big, even the smallest is about 10lb, and it's only available from out local farm at Christmas
We get turkey crowns. Mmmm!
Cock is even better,.., very fatty and pretty small
Speak for yourself - fnarr, fnarr
BTW - I am not christian and do not follow the teachings of of a 2000 year old dead hippy who took tree hugging a bit too far, but if I'm going to have someone else's ludricrous fantasies foisted on me, then I fully intend to use it as an excuse to spend time with my family and eat and drink myself silly in the company of people I really care about.
Locally produces free range turkey - ony once a year because that's the only time I eat with enough people not to be landed with the thing for the next fornight
Those denouncing turkey should stop shopping at iceland
Those denouncing turkey should stop shopping at iceland
Racists!
2tyred - Member
I was going to cook venison for everyone last year <snip><yawn><snippety snip>[b]That and I'm a vegetarian.[/b]
Now [i]that bit[/i] was funny 🙂
hexhamstu - MemberAbsolute rubbish generalisation. If you get a cheap frozen battery turkey from the supermarket it will be totally tasteless like any other cheap, frozen, high intensity farmed meat from the supermarket. If you go to a local producer, butcher or deli that does Norfolk Bronze or Norfolk Black free range, non frozen bird it is a totally different experience. Lots of taste, firm juicy and will still be producing sarnies etc for a week.
Cock is even better, and goose is good but as said above, very fatty and pretty smallIt's not absolute rubbish, I know food and I know that turkey is god awful. It's only eaten at christmas because the yanks told you that's what they do! If you think a turkey is as equally tasty as a goose/duck/pheasant/chicken/peacock/swan/pigeon/guinea-fowl or pretty much any other bird then you probably have zero taste buds.
If you speak to a chinese man about the breast of a bird he will tell you that it is the worst/cheapest meat on the bird, and he is right. It lacks flavour and is dry (I can already hear the cries of "Well you obviously can't cook" I am talking in comparison to the dark meat). A turkey is made up of mainly this dry tasteless bad textured meat. A goose on the other hand is all the good stuff with the added bonus of some lovely fat to cook the potatoes in!
Sorry, but you clearly don't know food and/or have never tried a decent type of turkey reared free range and not frozen. They are delicious and the breast is very moist if cooked properly.
As to your other comments, I didn't compare them to other birds. The flavour may not be as strong as say a well hung pheasant, but that does not make it inferior, just different. Strength of flavour does not equal quality of flavour, and variety is good. Interesting that you include swan in your list - not legal to eat in this country.
As for Chinese saying breast meat is the cheapest:
1) on a partridge, grouse, quail, pigeon, pheasant that is about all you eat
2) Chinese food is all about the flavour of the sauce not the flavour of the meat
I'll be cooking Goose again (Delia's recipe - oh I've come over all Mumsnet 😆 - except this time I intend to tie it up so it doesn't leak fat all over the oven and possibly get a much larger roasting dish (to ensure the same again). It's a great tasty alternative for the Turkey haters, personally I like Turkey but am out-voted by the Mrs. Goose was decided upon as best compromise choice by everyone who'll be there.
Oh yeah for those eating beef you could call it Mithrasmas just to stop TJ evangelising 8) or just call it Xmas.
oh I've come over all Mumsnet - except this time I intend to tie it up so it doesn't leak fat
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After a visit to Conwy Food festival i met a chap with samples of his 3 bird roast which was all produced free range on his farm near Ruthin, he prepares an bones a Goose with a chicken inside and then a pheasant inside the chicken with an apricot stuffing, or a cranberry stuffing. It feeds 16 and takes 2.5 hrs to cook, the samples he had were lurvely. Its costing £80 but thats split three ways amongst our family who are coming for xmas.
Goose again for us this year, not bothered about Turkey (yes we have some good local farms with fresh turkey's but I can't face all that leftover stuff)
Venison for boxing day, fish the next & Vegi the day after
Go the whole hog and get a swan. I know it's technically illegal, but you'd be doing them a favour as all the lochs and ponds are frozen and they'll slowly starve anyway. Better to eat 'em while they're good and fat.
On top of that, the family will never forget "the Christmas that Dad was hung for Treason". What have you got to lose?
Hung for treason, who by the Swan Princess?
Swan with dolphin sauce and penguin fritters.
We're hosting the annual NZ orphans lunch which involves a long MTB ride in the morning with a small drinkie somewhere scenic. An afternoon of stupidity and a non-feastlike BBQ in the sun with a few bottles of something nice. Friends enjoying themselves.
[url= http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/turkey6.html ]Turkey cooked on the BBQ[/url]
Did it last year, it was lovely. Repeating it again this year.