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Does Everyone Actually Still Have Turkey For Christmas Lunch?
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Quite a few work colleagues, family, friends I know have actually said their not having turkey for Christmas lunch this year, despite it being a Christmas tradition.
I think I read somewhere years ago that Goose was traditionally the Christmas dinner, possibly in Victorian times. Not sure when it became Turkey or why.
Remember the saying or catchphrase (Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat)
Some of the people I spoke with recently said their having roast lamb, some beef, some pork, even chicken, but not turkey.
Is the traditional thing of the turkey dying out?
What is everyone here having for Christmas lunch? You might very well be vegetarian?
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Turkey here. Had Goose once. Delicious it was too. After you have cooked one you will never have another. There is a reason why you rarely see it on a restaurant or hotel menu. It must have been wonderful on an open spit with the fat running into the blazing hearth. Gizzards are not much fun either.
^^^ "no point in cooking a joint for one anyway"
I cheat! I buy 'proper' cooked turkey (i.e. carved off the bone, rather than slices off a water-packed roll) from the cold meat counter in Morrison's. I then heat that up, wrapped in foil, in my oven and serve it (with suitable accompaniments, such as sprouts and roast potatoes) in a giant Yorkshire pudding, along with a wine-based gravy.
I do tend to think traditions are shifting away from turkey from my personal causal observation.
Personally I would still have turkey by choice as its not dry as some people say, or I haven't experienced a dry one. It really is how its cooked, but I am definitely no chef lol.
I think people these days just don't tend to follow traditional things, they just have what the majority of the family fancies which is absolutely fine. Why eat something your not keen on just for the sake of tradition.
But definitely I think the mood towards what we call traditional is dying out.
My daughter said her friend has even mixed halloween with Christmas this year, and had a tree decorated with Halloween related figures. Quite shockingly really as Halloween has nothing to do with Christmas.
//My daughter said her friend has even mixed halloween with Christmas this year, and had a tree decorated with Halloween related figures//
Now thats an idea 😂
My flat is gothic decorated....its painted red and black. I have skulls, dragons, bats, pagan gods and goddesses pictures etc decorated theme.
Still time to get a black xmas tree 😁
//But surely mixing halloween with Christmas is all wrong//
Why?
Halloween over the years has had a lot of traditions added to it. Likewise Christmas. Until one becomes 'good' (Xmas) and the other 'evil' (halloween)
Originally both were points on the calander to celebrate the wheel of life. (Christmas...or the mid-winter festival... has nothing to do with jesus just as originally halloween...or Samhain to give it its original name...has nothing to do with witches.
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