people keep being like "turkey is good your family just doesn't know how to cook" but like, it is kind of unreasonable to expect people to be very good at cooking turkey. it's a very unwieldy thing to cook

i don't even know how to cook a whole chicken

you take a country of people who can probably make decent desserts, stir-fries, casseroles, pastas, etc, certainly well enough to feed their families, and you tell them "alright time to cook something that takes up your whole oven do this once a year"

you don't remember enough year to year to learn from your mistakes, you don't like the results enough to actually really care about improving, and you definitely don't have enough people to make a turducken, which really does improve the whole thing

i just think it's wrong to be like "the reason you don't like turkey is that you're a bad cook!" or whatever. it's just we made the centerpiece of the most food-centric holiday a thing that's very hard for regular home cooks to handle

also we really fucked up by making turducken this symbol of stupid american decadence. i had it once and it was fucking amazing. the duck fat melts into everything else

anyway i have no particular stake in this. i am making turkey meatballs. i just don't think you should get down on yourself for not knowing how to cook turkey