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people keep being like "turkey is good your family just doesn& #39;t know how to cook" but like, it is kind of unreasonable to expect people to be very good at cooking turkey. it& #39;s a very unwieldy thing to cook
i don& #39;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& #39;t remember enough year to year to learn from your mistakes, you don& #39;t like the results enough to actually really care about improving, and you definitely don& #39;t have enough people to make a turducken, which really does improve the whole thing
i just think it& #39;s wrong to be like "the reason you don& #39;t like turkey is that you& #39;re a bad cook!" or whatever. it& #39;s just we made the centerpiece of the most food-centric holiday a thing that& #39;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& #39;t think you should get down on yourself for not knowing how to cook turkey
