You know who else hates Turkey? The Kurds.
I didn't have turkey on Thanksgiving for about the 50th year in a row. Lucky me! I don't really have any desire, never have, to eat any kind of poultry, give me ham, fish(except Salmon, Tuna, or Trout), beef, anytime. I had to be nagged to eat it when I was a kid. At 15, I started saying no..
Hell, a crappy burger is better than any turkey I've ever had. Including fried, which is the best.
I don't like green bean anything.
I don't like mushroom anything.
I don't want gravy on anything.
Since I don't like poultry, stuffing is out.
I can take or leave Yams/Sweet Potatoes.
Love red potatoes.
Mashed potatoes range from great to...well, not so great.
I had some great corn on the cob a week before the holiday. I don't know where it came from, but it was very good.
A late family friend made this great ham and rice every year that I really miss. Her daughter just doesn't get it right for some reason.
This year, I had Catfish on french garlic bread, some Fritos, an orange, and washed down with Pepsi. It was great. Last year, I had Walleye on French garlic bread, some red potatoes, an orange, and washed down with iced tea.
Best Thanksgiving dinner ever? A huge Catfish stuffed with asian vegetables, along with Thai Jasmine rice that soaked up the sauce the fish and veggies cooked in that a friend's wife came up with. Best thing I have ever eaten, period. I guessed the newly added ingredient, a tiny bit of coconut (I was ridiculed for guessing that was it by everyone else there), and won the "extra bowl" for guessing it correctly!
I don't do Turkey anymore. I find birds to be the least tasty meat. At least the traditional stuff, never tried ostrich.
Turkey itself is ok but it easy to dry out and then it's a struggle the whole dinner just to chew the few ounces on the plate. Neh! Give me some kind of red meat rare and still bleeding!
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I bought a smoked turkey this year. Much better than an oven roasted or fried turkey. The drumsticks were pretty tough, almost too tough to eat. I don't like turkey but my wife insists on having turkey when we gather at our house for Thanksgiving. That usually only happens every other year so I can eat turkey once every 2 years.
I was in charge of the cleanup so I wrapped all of the left over turkey and sent it home with the guests. My wife ask me yesterday where the left over turkey was. She should have never left me in charge of the cleanup.
I did make an important discovery this Thanksgiving so that saved a boring meal for me. I discovered Pinot Noir wine. I dislike white wine about as much as I dislike turkey. Everyone always pairs white with poultry. Hogwash. Oregon Pinot Noir goes very well with poultry. It was a big hit with the wine drinkers. Totally stumbled onto that. I thought I was buying white wine at Costco.
Last edited by Borderland; 11-28-2021 at 11:08 AM.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.