Why does it have to be this way?

[Stocker]

I’d rather eat slow roasted antelope hoof in used motor oil than eat Turkey.

Eating Turkey leads to driving Subarus.



Can you fricking imagine someone hunting a Turkey with a muzzleloader. Worst. Person. Ever.

 

[DouglasR]

There’s just something satisfying about cooking an animal whole...

 

[TOGIE]

There’s just something satisfying about cooking an animal whole...

literally 1000x better than turkey...

 

[Scott85]

I’ll eat turkey but prefer ham then prime rib on Christmas.

Favorite sides.
Oyster dressing.
Sweet potato casserole.
Green bean casserole.
Mac and cheese.
Deviled eggs

 

[Deleted member 28227]

it was during that time frame that tucker carlson caught wind of the native americans trying to serve venison at thanksgiving.

beginning of the end.

Grampa Moses didn’t fight off the Red Coats for your Tory ass to be cooking up cows, this is ‘Mercia.

*Venison and fish are in fact traditional thanksgiving fare

 

[Hunting Wife]

 

[RobertD]

mashed with cinnamon and curry? Mashed with orange juice?

Souffléd with caramelized brown sugar and crushed pecans across the top

 

[Bambistew]

Meah. I'm eating moose for dinner tomorrow.

 

[np307]

I’d rather eat slow roasted antelope hoof in used motor oil than eat Turkey.

Eating Turkey leads to driving Subarus.



Can you fricking imagine someone hunting a Turkey with a muzzleloader. Worst. Person. Ever.

Well I guess I'm behind the curve and need to go get me a muzzleloading shotgun

 

[ZMT588]

Turkey is just Meh IMO. Although I think the key to a good turkey or any bird starts with a good brine. Injecting butter also helps. I hate dry ass turkey, if there’s other options I’ll eat those. Not a big ham guy either. A nice prime rib is where it’s at.

If the world happened to reset from day 0 and everything had to be discovered again and no one ever came up with the idea for Green bean Casserole I would not be sad.

 

[LuketheDog]

let's start a lively debate. though i feel confident i'm in the minority already.

why, just why, does thanksgiving food have to be what it is? why is everyone set on it?

for what is incontrovertibly the biggest most important get together meal of the entire year in the huge and powerful country of America, where we come together to enjoy the company of our family and friends to be joyous and thankful do we dine on what is IMO some of the most mediocre food available?

there is almost nothing on the thanksgiving table that i have any desire to go out of my way to eat at any other point in the year. there are countless items that are better than all of it.

let me list off everything better than turkey:

• beef prime rib
• beef tenderloin
• nearly any beef steak really
• pulled pork
• roasted whole chicken
• elk steaks
• deer steaks
• antelope steaks
• pork tenderloin
• pork chops
• hamburgers, i'd rather eat delicious homemade hamburgers all day every day instead of turkey

mashed potatoes, never been a big fan. what's better?

• mac and cheese
• french fries
• scalloped potatoes (i'm sure some people do this over mashed on turkey day, props to them)
• potatos au gratin
• well seasoned, buttered, wild rice with veggies

sweet potato casserole, yeah that's pretty good. green bean casserole, yeah that's also pretty good. but really they're the best of a bad situation IMO. don't really care what salad is on the table, salad is never that special unless it's oozing with blue cheese and red onion.

best thing that makes an appearance at thanksgiving is apple pie, without a doubt in my mind. i'm looking to eat apple pie a lot more than just thanksgiving. that's kinda my metric, think about most items on a thanksgiving table and ask yourself, do i ever want to eat this at any other time of the year? would you ever order any of it at a quality restaurant? if the answer is no, than you're doing thanksgiving wrong.

who the hell goes to quality restaurant with all the things in the world on the menu and orders turkey? it's asinine. turkey is so low on the totem pole of of delicious meats.

thanksgiving should be the best of the best food. sticking to a tradition of mediocre dishes because of tradition is dumb.

I wasn't a big fan until I learned how to cook, and learned that 'tradition' doesn't mean it has to be badly cooked food. As a kid, I recall my grandma's Thanksgiving dinners only being saved by big buttered dinner rolls, the rest was not good. Now though, I can cook you a turkey you'll enjoy and have extra helpings of, my wife makes some great potato alternatives to just plain mashed, and stuffing is better with cornbread, sage, and sausage instead of weirdo walnuts and apples. At my folks' house I will often do a corned elk roast in addition to the turkey. I also refuse to go to my in-laws' for Thanksgiving unless I can cook the turkey and bring at least one side, because their 'traditional' meal is just that bad (picture the Christmas Vacation bird/meal, I'm not even joking!).

 

[TOGIE]

I wasn't a big fan until I learned how to cook, and learned that 'tradition' doesn't mean it has to be badly cooked food. As a kid, I recall my grandma's Thanksgiving dinners only being saved by big buttered dinner rolls, the rest was not good. Now though, I can cook you a turkey you'll enjoy and have extra helpings of, my wife makes some great potato alternatives to just plain mashed, and stuffing is better with cornbread, sage, and sausage instead of weirdo walnuts and apples. At my folks' house I will often do a corned elk roast in addition to the turkey. I also refuse to go to my in-laws' for Thanksgiving unless I can cook the turkey and bring at least one side, because their 'traditional' meal is just that bad (picture the Christmas Vacation bird/meal, I'm not even joking!).

i mean, i went all out on a long brined, spatchcocked, smoked turkey during covid when we had to stay home for thanksgiving. sure, way better than most any thanksgiving turkey i've ever had, but it was still just obvious to me that turkey doesn't do it for me.

i mean, if i'm gonna put that kind of effort into something it might as well be something that has a much much higher baseline level of good.

 

[Stocker]

Well I guess I'm behind the curve and need to go get me a muzzleloading shotgun

 

[mtmuley]

Just me and the wife tomorrow. We are having one of the antelope backstraps I hoard. mtmuley

 

[Art Vandeley]

What’s the drink of choice for hunttalkers on thanksgiving ? Turkey is edible if washed down by an icy cold Miller lite

 

[stevejfarms]

Yeah I guess if you've never been in the country's good food region you might not think Thanksgiving food is any good...

Turkey? Delicious. Mashed potatoes? You must not have them with enough butter and salt. Sweet potato casserole? Literally a dessert you get to count as a vegetable. Green bean casserole? Yeah proof you're doing things wrong. Green beans are slow cooked overnight with some salted pork product, preferably a ham hock or ham bone. Mac and cheese? We always have it too.

As for dessert? APPLE PIE??????? THANKSGIVING ISNT ABOUT APPLE PIE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. Pumpkin pie? I'll give it a strong 'meh' because everyone who knows what's good knows PECAN PIE is the superior dessert. There is no contest. And if that pecan pie is made with sorghum molasses? Perfection.

Get this commie crap outta here.

We’re having apple, pecan, and pumpkin

 

[nwihunter]

From what we know of the first thanksgiving the pilgrims probably ate deer, ducks, and seafood like cod and lobster.

I put my turkey in the brine and made cranberry sauce this morning. Wife is making pies now. I only eat store bought turkey one time a year.

Brining the turkey has been a game changer at our house. Always found the white meat to be really boring until we started soaking it in brine over night.

 

[TOGIE]

What’s the drink of choice for hunttalkers on thanksgiving ? Turkey is edible if washed down by an icy cold Miller lite

Old fashioneds are my drink of choice year round. Also good peaty scotch, neat. Love a quality gin gimlet.

Otherwise I like cheap lite beer or hard seltzers.

All of them go better with beef and pork over turkey…

 

[mtmuley]

I've seen oyster stuffing mentioned. I lost the recipe I had. Included a bit of spice to it. Anyone have a recipe? mtmuley

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Old fashioneds are my drink of choice year round. Also good peaty scotch, neat. Love a quality gin gimlet.

Otherwise I like cheap lite beer or hard seltzers.

All of them go better with beef and pork over turkey…