Turkey Poll

[ronandannette]

It's Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and many of us will be gathering at bountiful tables. Best wishes to all who are celebrating and grace and peace to those who find such occasions difficult.

Question: Do you serve your turkey as a showpiece and carve it at the table, or pre-carve it in the kitchen?

 

[Micca]

Happy Thanksgiving, hope you're enjoying the weekend. Turkey is carved in the kitchen, everyone fills their plate and brings it to the table.

 

[_19disnA]

We have always carved the turkey in the kitchen. Way more convenient to serve and far less of a production at the dinner table. Can recall a few times having Thanksgiving at a relatives house and they also carved the turkey in the kitchen before the meal was served.

In the past several years, we have also switched to more of a buffet style, where everyone helps themselves in the kitchen and takes a seat at the table. Things like rolls or gravy would be at the table, but seems to work better instead of trying to pass everything around and the food is cold by the time you are ready to eat. We always roast the turkey/breast the day of Thanksgiving. If you do it the day before, once reheated it already tastes like leftovers even if the first time serving it.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Happy Thanksgiving

 

[Disneylover99]

We always pre-carve and serve everything buffet style.

 

[Kitty 34]

Happy Thanksgiving RonandAnnette! I'm not ready yet to think Thanksgiving around here....but I do give thanks that you and your Northern buddies are part of the DIS!


DH always carves the turkey in the kitchen.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Happy Thanksgiving, @ronandannette!

 

[disykat]

Good question! I've always wondered why all those pictures of the turkey on the table, when I've never seen anyone do it like that. Maybe someone here can let us know how it's done.

Obviously, mine is carved in the kitchen! I would truly be jealous if someone manages the "showpiece turkey!"

 

[easyas123]

Happy Thanksgiving to you & yours!

Last several years-due to a lot of folks over for the holiday meal - we have carved in the kitchen. If it was a small gathering...small enough to allow for all dishes on the dining room table, then I'd do it at the table.

 

[NAB]

We just had our turkey . The last few. Years we have just been doing the turkey breasts carved and put on a platter to out to the table. Everything else is family style out on the table and passed around.

It was only 4 of us this year.

Saying that we had a big old Costco pie. Also put on plates and taken out to the table.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Now off to finish packing going to the WDW Halloween party Tuesday night!

 

[White Cat]

Turkey breast only and pre cut.

 

[ronandannette]

Happy Thanksgiving, @ronandannette!

Is there any equivalent holiday observed in the UK?

Also a shout-out to anyone from the other countries mentioned below. Is a traditional turkey meal part of the celebration?

 

[ronandannette]

Turkey breast only and pre cut.

Awww, then you miss out on one of life's genuine pleasures - the savory aroma of a stuffed turkey slow-roasting.

We only do a turkey feast once per year, at Thanksgiving and that amazing smell is part of the necessary ambiance. I never make pumpkin pie other than at Thanksgiving either, as much as we enjoy it and it's delicious smell.

 

[_19disnA]

The last few years we have been roasting a turkey breast since we only care for the white meat. Whole turkey has lot of bones and parts we don't care for. We stuff the whole turkey breast and that 'savory aroma' is still there just as it would be with a whole turkey.

 

[tvguy]

The last few years we have been roasting a turkey breast since we only care for the white meat. Whole turkey has lot of bones and parts we don't care for. We stuff the whole turkey breast and that 'savory aroma' is still there just as it would be with a whole turkey.

Same here. It will just be my wife and I this year. Our daughter moved over seas, our son has three small children and lives 400 miles away, and don't have a car that can carry all five of them and their belongings. Not that I expect them to travel with small kids.
Even when he and his wife and our daughter were hear, but daughter was vegetarian and my DIL is allergic to turkey, so even the smallest turkey was too big.

 

[luvthatduke]

Our family is small so no large turkeys for us.
I usually do a breast in the Rotisserie & I carve it in the kitchen.

I find it interesting that Canadians seem to serve the same foods as the US.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Is there any equivalent holiday observed in the UK?

Not really. The closest we have is Bonfire Night where we celebrate an assassination attempt on the King and his advisors being killed by explosion bypass Guy Fawkes. Always takes place on November 5th at night - HUGE amounts of fireworks, fires, effigies, dancing, music… it's really cool.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian DISers!

Turkey is carved in the kitchen at my in-laws, where we go for our Thanksgiving next month.

 

[White Cat]

Our family is small so no large turkeys for us.
I usually do a breast in the Rotisserie & I carve it in the kitchen.

I find it interesting that Canadians seem to serve the same foods as the US.

Why?

 

[ronandannette]

Our family is small so no large turkeys for us.
I usually do a breast in the Rotisserie & I carve it in the kitchen.

I find it interesting that Canadians seem to serve the same foods as the US.

Would it also surprise you to know that Thanksgiving originated in Canada? It was celebrated by the Martin Frobisher expedition when they arrived at Labrador, which is the northern part of Newfoundland. They shared food they had brought with them with the friendly and curious Inuit people - boiled salt meat and boiled dried peas. Today, some form of that is still served in Newfoundland as a celebratory meal at any time of year and it's called a Jigg's Dinner. I'm not sure when Turkey became a thing.

P.S. I recently visited Plymouth Rock, The Mayflower II and Patuxet during a trip to Boston. It was very interesting and the historical reenactments at the sites were very well done, including a role-play of Thanksgiving between the residents of Plymouth Plantation and the Village.