Originally Posted by The Wizard:
“Why do people eat turkey at Christmas? The one day a year when it's time to treat yourself and people buy the cheapest most God awful meat imaginable. What's wrong with a nice duck, capon or even a nice 3 bird roast? Or even a nice slow cooked joint of melt in the mouth beef but Turkey? Hell no!
Turkey is what people put in curries to make it cheaper when you can't tell the difference between a nice fillet of chicken and cheap crap. I'd hardly call it a treat.”
I agree with you. I suppose it's cos most people have big gatherings so a chicken ain't gonna be big enough. And the turkey is cheap to feed a big party.
But yeah, I hate turkey, I tried to once replace chicken breasts with turkey breasts in my cooking to cost-cut, and the result was I just chucked it all away and never bought turkey again. It crap.
I'm having just a small gathering this year so I'm just having free range chicken and some gammon.