Turkey = shite
I'd take beef or lamb over turkey any time. Honestly, if turkey is that great why doesn't everyone eat it every weekend, it's not that expensive. The turkey industry is just a great big scam that relies on people falling for the idea that they *must* eat turkey because it's traditional. The one time you get the whole family round why do people insist on cooking something that's massively bland, incredibly difficult to cook properly without either drying it out, exploding it in the oven or giving everyone food poisoning, and relies entirely on trimmings to make it interesting.

Now goose on the other hand is delicious.
(flimflam_machine, Wed 26 Nov 2008, 16:09, 3 replies)

Turkey FTW!
Turkey has to be cooked carefully to get the best out of it, and over the years I like to think I've perfected it (I still always get a turkey, but it's become a new years thing instead of xmas).

Done right it's succulent and juicy and seriously nomnomnom! 'scuse me, just wiping drool off the keyboard*.

*disclaimer: Drool may not be Turkey related.
(EffinDoubt is breaking glass on, Wed 26 Nov 2008, 16:32, closed)

Without doing any research whatsoever
I reckon that it must be because it had to be cheap, and it had to be big enough for a whole family and extra people.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Wed 26 Nov 2008, 17:08, closed)

You, you...
Turkeyhater! Boo.

Goose is nice though.
(Strangechap I look normal on the outside..., Thu 27 Nov 2008, 11:14, closed)

Gobble
I strenuously object to being labelled a "turkeyhater". I don't hate turkey and I will happily eat and enjoy it if it's there. I just think that it is, possibly, the most overrated food in the entire world and I'm baffled by people's insistence on eating it (in preference to truly delicious beef, lamb or goose) just because it's Christmas.
(flimflam_machine, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 13:55, closed)