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Not us, we're off for a slap - up curry with friends. Much nicer and easier than turkey 🙂
Curry here too.
Never.
Tried to convince my family not to. Sister offered to just cook me a chop whilst everyone else has turkey instead.
nope but hoping it will be 25c so probably something either fishy and bbq or something light. Probably something more roasted one evening.
Nope, we don't rate it, Turkey tastes odd to me. Rare cooked beef fillet and shed loads of red wine.
Raclette for a change, Beef Wellington last year...
Thinking of camping in the lakes again. Been a few years since we last did it.
Beans on toast maybe.
Either slow roast leg of lamb or short rib of beef for us.
Wow curry sounds awesome!
Just for the grease on order to cook stuff in later for some reason the dad's girlfriend insists on goose. 🙄
That's OK did turkey for Thanksgiving! 🙂
beans on toast....it's crimbo innit?
Swan, just don't tell Liz
We do chicken or sometimes duck, I wouldn't choose turkey any other day of the week after all. Oh and enough pig to kill a man.
Here it will be prime rib cooked on the gas grill rotisserie----hopefully it isn't snowing---had turkey for Thanksgiving
Friends of ours go up to Boot in Eskdale over Xmas, stay in the pods on the campsite and do some Xmas Day climbing before eating bacaon & cheese hot toasties at the tarn 🙂
Not us either, we always do a veggie Xmas Lunch.
And no, no it's got nothing to do with Nut Roast 😆
Turkey here. I seem to be unusual in that I love roast turkey. I've eaten it all year round when it's been available.
Carp 🙂
I sooo want to do other (roast beef or pork), but mrs_oab and mil_oab are traditionalists and want a turkey (again) 🙄
Turkey isn't traditional.
Had steak last year and it was way better. Think we're doing a "normal" xmas dinner this year which will be very dull 😆 I'd much rather have a nice curry!
Goose, as per. Can't wait.
We never have turkey, I think we're having pork this year.
Chicken Korma here, as it's a racing day on Boxing day, always have the same meal the evening before races.
Duck.
All to myself too. Everyone else on the day is veggie.
The real advantage of turkey is its big enough if you've got enough people round the table to eat it all. If you've 10 people to feed its an elegant way of doing it but if theres only 4 or 5 then turkey takes up too much room in the oven, were you could be cooking other nice things, and most of it gets left over.
Meh, I'm not cooking- who cares?
I'm veggie. No turkey, thanks!
Rib of beef for us. Plus quail at the request of my 9 y.o. daughter.
No turkey here.
Probably make some sort of veggie wellington with squash, mushrooms and chestnuts.
And lots of homemade curry on New Year's Eve.
Turkey for Christmas day.
Rather looking forward to the gammon on Boxing Day though.
Capon, looking forward to it too.
Turkey isn't traditional.
Precisely.
Leg of Welsh Lamb for us. did it last year. much more british than that american import!
Lamb. Can't stand turkey.
A large chook and gammon ham here.
Well, we've been eating turkey in England since the C16th so how traditional do you want it to be?
Muddy . Believe it was one the preserve of the wealthy and the traditional Christmas bird was goose.
Gammon will be on the menu here I suspect.
beef wellington......any tips for success?
Fish and chips for our Christmas Dinner, with a choice of garden or mushy peas 😆
But first, we'll have a luxury picnic lunch at Rivington, or maybe Darwen Tower.
Steak and chips for us this year. Criteria are, quick to prepare, no mess, and not a turkey.
Muddy . Believe it was one the preserve of the wealthy and the traditional Christmas bird was goose.
the important word in that sentence being 'was'. Traditions can change. If most people have eaten and do eat turkey at christmas then its impossible to say turkey at christmas isn't traditional. You can instead hark back to earlier traditions but it quickly gets difficult to find food to put on your plate. If turkeys aren't traditional then neither are many of the other things on your plate - like those pesky new-fangled new-world potatoes.
We thought about goose for a change, were appalled at the cost and reverted to Turkey. Feeding ten so had to keep some kind of check on costs,,
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Turkey isn't traditional.
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Bollocks to that - I'm 46 and had it every year since ever, that's traditional enough for me. Saying that I prefer a good curry but wouldn't want to do that on the 25th.
There are records of huge turkey drives from Norfolk (Bernard Matthews ancestors?) to London in the mid C16th, over 10'000 birds in one drive. I suspect at that level of availability turkey may have been on more tables than just the rich elite.
Eating turkey is at least as traditional* in England as in the U.S. for a celebratory meal.
*Doesn't mean its actually nice to eat of course.
No turkey here, mushroom en croute with sour cream and mushroom sauce plus lots of veg. 😀