Turkey off the menu

**Moscow Mule** · 12 November 2007, 16:41

bootiful

**Denny** · 12 November 2007, 17:39

Originally posted by Clippy View Post

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7091284.stm

I think the birds are faking it with Xmas coming up.

I usually have Duck or Pork, not T'key.

Saves having to put up with endless boring Turkey dishes made with leftovers: Turkey salad, Turkey sandwiches, Turkey kebabs, Turkey burgers, Turkey.....ad infinitum until well into the New Year.

**DimPrawn** · 12 November 2007, 17:45

Originally posted by Denny View Post

I usually have Duck or Pork, not T'key.

Saves having to put up with endless boring Turkey dishes made with leftovers: Turkey salad, Turkey sandwiches, Turkey kebabs, Turkey burgers, Turkey.....ad infinitum until well into the New Year.

Top tip. Buy a smaller, tastier, organic Turkey. Quality not quantity.

A Turkey the size of an elephant is not natural.

**Denny** · 12 November 2007, 20:24

Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

Top tip. Buy a smaller, tastier, organic Turkey. Quality not quantity.

A Turkey the size of an elephant is not natural.

True enough, but T'key is not my fav' meat at Xmas anyway. By the time I've graced the table of a couple of work Xmas parties, which normally have a Turkey set menu, I've had my fill of it for the season.

So for my own Xmas din dins, I'll probably stick to roast 'Donald' or 'Pinky/Perky' or even go for Organic Free Range Chicken.

**thunderlizard** · 12 November 2007, 20:54

Originally posted by Clippy View Post

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7091284.stm

I think the birds are faking it with Xmas coming up.

Maybe following on from their chicken-Great Escape, Aardman Studios could do a Turkey Masada (or Marsala).

"take their victory from them...and they will remember you"

**Cliphead** · 12 November 2007, 21:04

Goose this year, traditional an' all that.

**thunderlizard** · 12 November 2007, 21:06

Be sure to baste your goose regularly!

another top tl tip.

**Kamau** · 14 November 2007, 17:28

Bird Flu in Norfolk. More slaughter
5,000 birds - turkeys, geese and ducks - are to be slaughtered.
Preliminary tests showed the turkeys had the H5 strain of bird flu. The RSPB, quoted in the Guardian, warns against the assumption that the disease had spread to poultry from wild birds. , No wild birds have been found with avian flu in Europe since late August and the autumn migration is now largely over.

nd what makes things worse the outbreak is in a "free range" farm.

Turkey off the menu