Turkey is over-rated

Thought you were talking about the country at first

Since Erdoğan is there, it s been a shit show. Waiting for better times to enjoy it

Because everyone only eats it once, maybe twice a year, nobody knows how to properly cook a turkey. Combine that with the only turkeys being butterballs from a grocery store and it’s no wonder you don’t like it.

A properly cooked, quality turkey is incredibly good and is one of my favorite meats. Definitely prefer it over chicken or other poultry

Turkey is cheap, and can be cooked a variety of ways. It's an amazing food source. Last year I brined a turkey breast for Thanksgiving, this year I'm doing a lemon-herb butter rub.

Before cooking my own turkey, it was just whatever my grandparents or inlaws made for thanksgiving, and it was usually dry and bland. You can do better and you should do better. That bird died for you, and you have a duty to make it delicious.

It is called Türkiye - Turkish people are quite adamant about it by now… I consider it silly though …

Tell me you've only ever had overcooked turkey without saying you've only had overcooked turkey. Moistness is not a certain sign of properly cooked.

Agreed. Turkey was a fine meal for settlers. Better things to eat nowadays. “But…but… it’s tradition!” they say. Well, so is the Running of the Bulls in Spain and most people wouldn’t do that!

I shared your opinion until I recently had a properly smoked turkey for the first time. It was juicy and smokey and incredibly flavorful.

I'm going to agree with you. Turkey is just not that great.

I liked how the original sub had food as a banned topic because everyone's taste buds are different

I never had turkey (it simply is not a thing here), but I guess with a dish that is a) only made once per year and b) size-wise far out of the ordinary daily cooking experience, this will lead to a lot of below average experiences.

Smoked turkey legs 🍗 ftw

I like it outside of the holidays. Turkey is my preferred sandwich.

i felt this way and then my aunt tried seasoning the turkey in a new way and -oh man- does it taste FANTASTIC.

can't wait for tonight!

Good more for me!

Goose is the better turkey.

Turkey is one of those meats that are good to experiment with.

I haven't done it in a while but I would often buy a whole turkey and carve the bird as I prefer at home.

Thighs are good for slow roasting, with peppers and rosemary. The drums get drown in an onion and cloves based sauce and cooked for several hours until the meat falls off the bone, pulled, allowed to chill and then turned into sandwich meat. The breasts are sliced into very thin stakes, for grilling or frying or make into schnitzel. Small pieces are turned into stroganoff, with mushroom sauce. The bones are good for making meat stock.

It is a very versatile ingredient but it does require some degree of finesse to cook.

Turkey Club Sandwich is good, but bacon is pulling all the flavor weight on that one. Turkey meat is generally healthier than chicken meat though, so it’s got that going for it.

so true. They think they're so cool just because they're a part of the EU, but they are like, the worst countryin the EU club, and mostly seem to have wanted in so they could keep everyone else out.

Most Thanksgiving food isn't that good. If it was, we'd eat it more than once a year.

Seems like a lot of people just have no clue how to cook food. I'm not a big fan of turkey but it's pretty good if you cook it correctly with seasonings.

I'm with you. It's the most boring meat around.

I have heard that wild turkey tastes much better, but I've never tried it, as I'm not a hunter.

Consider this: the strong association of turkey with Thanksgiving means that you're not expected to eat it any any other time.

Smoked turkey fajitas. That's the answer.

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prepared properly, well seasoned, with a nice gravy, it’s pretty good imo.

We started doing a rib roast for thanksgiving a few years ago. So much better than turkey!

I also do baked skin-on chicken thighs regularly, which we also like better than turkey, that we simply never have a craving for turkey.

Same thing with meatloaf. My whole family loves it but it just tastes like unseasoned beef to me.

This year we're cooking a 26 lb pasture raised turkey. If it's still not great, we're doing something else for the meat course next year.

I've had one really good turkey that was deep-fried.

Chicken is the far superior bird, which may be why everybody eats them all the time. Turkey is for sandwiches.

Are you talking about mass produced farm turkeys, or a wild turkey that you shot and cooked? There is a huge difference between the two.

I like me some deli-meat turkey. But roasted or whatever Thanksgiving prep is not for me. Like chewing soft woodchips.

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Well done turkey (and I've had it done well) is very good. I have sliced turkey sandwiches the rest of the year. It is a lot leaner than fatty brisket/ribs too.

Have made/had so many and I agree. Heirloom to butterball, all type of seasonings and cook styles. End of the day it's turkey. We do prime rib now depending on crowd size will still add turkey for the purists.

Is that unpopular though?

Who even eats turkey asides from Americans on thanksgiving?