Do you have turkey on Christmas day?

[Ck]

If not, why not?

[Earl]

I don't like roast dinners, I like to go to the kebab shop. Thank Jesus for those muslims that'll work on Christmas Day!

[Ck]

Blame King Henry VIII, although that fat twat would have probably been down at the kebab shop with you if he was around now.

[SFB]

Had turkey once, never again!

It was a freebie, so shouldn't complain really.

[FreeBBC]

Had turkey once, never again!

It was a freebie, so shouldn't complain really.

[Earl]

You are a little turkey!

[Ck]

Yeah, he's foul!

[A_B]

No, we don't have turkey. I can't see the point of waiting a whole year just to eat something with no taste.

We have lamb and pork usually.

[Ck]

We have turkey, regardless of whether we like it or not because it's tradition. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a turkey

[SFB]

Eating turkey at Christmas isn't a very old tradition in the scheme of things.

Before turkey took over, the popular delicacies were bustard, goose and cockerel. In wealthy households, peacock and swan would be served.

The peacock was often skinned before roasting. For serving, it was reclothed in its feathers and its beak gilded.

The turkey was introduced into Europe by one of Sebastian Cabot’s officers on a return journey from the New World.

Curiously, these American fowl were called “turkeys” because of their similarity to another bird of the same name already commonly eaten in England. Merchants from the Levant or Turkey first brought these birds to England.

The identical names inevitably created a lot of confusion, so the original turkey was renamed the guinea fowl.