Which Bird will you be Roasting this Christmas/Winterval?

[crodonilson]

With the news of a severe shortage of large butterball turkeys and prices rocketing which bird will you be roasting this Christmas time??

 

[The Large One]

Bird?

Pah, a deer probably.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

There seems to be a shortage of Turkeys reported every year. Still I bet in the week leading up to Xmas you won't be able to get into a supermarket for stacks of the tasteless monstrosities.

 

[banjo]

Turkey and a gammon ordered from the butchers.

 

[burnee54]

There's this young blonde two doors down that I'll be filling with Paxo hopefully.



It is a euphemism right?

you know: Roast = Pork?
Bird = Young Female?

 

[brakespear]

Not doing a roast at Christmas - curry instead

 

[pasty]

Just me and Mrs P again this year, so eating out Christmas Day. Will be having turkey though.

 

[blue2]

None usual curry for me

 

[skipper734]

I don't kiss and tell.

 

[RexCathedra]

No roasting here -- turkey goes on the grill, with applewood chuncks. Come rain. come shine... That's a couple of Thanksgivings ago, but it does for Christmas too.
I'm dying to do a goose, but they're dear here in the US. Roasting geese is a foodie/hipster exotic.

 

[Birdie Boy]

Where's the option for I don't know cause the hotel will surprise me with whatever they give me when I get back from snowboarding all day?

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Duck, it is LOVELY. In fact ASDA have Duck Legs for the bargain price of £2 at the moment - im already stocked up !!

Gammon as well......other birds depend on what happens on New Years Eve.

 

[Trevor]

Yes - ordered my turkey today. I'll be less excited about it by about the 7th January

 

[Trufflehound]

Yes - ordered my turkey today.

Sounds fowl.

 

[vegster]

A Turkey crown for me, I can't be doing with all the legs and wing bits. However, I only ever once had a pre-basted Butterball Turkey, it was awful, loads of yellowish fat oozed out of the poor thing and rendered the meat slimy, never again.

 

[portslade seagull]

Need to meet her 1st

 

[melias shoes]

Turkey.
Don't call it winterval. It's Christmas simple as that.

 

[MJsGhost]

Turkey.
Don't call it winterval. It's Christmas simple as that.

Quite - if I recall correctly, it was a crappy PC term adopted by Birmingham City Council (+ maybe others) in about 1997/98 (it was whenever Villa had a cracking start to the season under John Gregory), then it fell out of fashion very quickly. Why use the sh|te term still?

 

[El Presidente]

If half the stories are true you'd have to fancy your chances with a Nigella.

 

[desprateseagull]