View Full Version : The price of Turkeys !
Mark Grant
22-12-2010, 21:49
Just got back from Sainsburys.
A decent sized Turkey was £42.00,
Is it just me or is that a lot of money when a large chicken is £10.00 ?
Rare Bird
22-12-2010, 22:00
Never eat the crap anyway i'm English not American :lolsign:
Joking aside i prefer Chicken anyday
we're going for crowns this year from a local butcher so no waste, its a joke because the rest of the year turkey meat is cheaper than chicken
Never eat the crap anyway i'm English not American :lolsign:
i suppose you prefer a good goose instead :eyebrows:
Yes, roast goose is exactly what we're having - leaves turkey for dead in terms of flavour!! :)
Oh, and you *must* use a proper butcher for your meat at Christmas... I'm sorry, supermarket dross just doesn't cut it. Support your local butcher and eat free-range local produce!! :cool:
Marco.
Ali Tait
22-12-2010, 22:31
Yep goose is where it's at!
Leg of lamb for us this year and that cost £30!! :eek:
(I don’t even like lamb ffs)
Oh arr, with Marco on this one....supermarket meat=frozen shite.
Rare Bird
22-12-2010, 22:40
o dear smelling lamb cooking turns my guts
Yup - there's no comparison, chaps. It's like comparing a Bentley to a Ford Focus!!
We're having our roast Goose with Del's legendary home-made pork, apricot and pistachio stuffing, and serving the bird in its own slow-roasted juices, flavoured with port and juniper berries - awesome!
I might post the recipe on the foodie thread :cool:
Marco.
Rare Bird
22-12-2010, 22:46
Aye i just remembered why Christmas is a load of shyte :lol:
Those supermarket birds are meant to be full of water. Butcher makes more sense.
Techno Commander
22-12-2010, 23:17
Getting a free free-range happy turkey from work. :
Stratmangler
22-12-2010, 23:21
Getting a free free-range happy turkey from work. :
So it's not dead yet then ?
If it is dead, then how can it be happy, and how does it range free ?:scratch:
:lolsign:
I am not a big fan of turkey,I've made some darned fine turkey dinners but once a year is all I can handle.By the time you get through a 22+ pound bird your sick of it.
I have shreaded the meat to use for turkey tacos,you add so menny spices it fails to taste like turkey anymore then your back in the game.
I have never had goose, can some one tell me a good goose recipe and any tricks to cooking it right?
I ve been told there fatty,and must be cooked right to be good.
Ali Tait
23-12-2010, 06:49
We get our meat from a farmer on the Isle of Arran. All organic and it is superb. He even often delivers it himself,as his daughter is at Edinburgh Uni. You need to buy in bulk to make it worthwhile i.e. half a lamb or pig,but it actually works out cheaper than the supermarket shite.
Perhaps of you lot went out, caught and killed your meat, you might just have more thought for what has given its life so you can stuff yourselves on Christmas Day ;)
P.S. I don't think any methods of slaughter are "humane."
Lol - so what are we all supposed to do then, Dave - turn veggie? :eyebrows:
At least the animals killed for the meat we're eating had a decent life and weren't subjected to the cruelty of intensive battery farming, as is the case with most supermarket shite, so our conscience is clear! :)
Marco.
M y boss just called from the airport , on his way back from the Maldives to say he has a bit of a cash flow problem can i wait until the new year to get paid.
Im going to take a walk down to Trafalgar sq tonight and gag myself a pigeon.
Techno Commander
23-12-2010, 12:15
Perhaps of you lot went out, caught and killed your meat, you might just have more thought for what has given its life so you can stuff yourselves on Christmas Day ;)
P.S. I don't think any methods of slaughter are "humane."
I have shot, gutted and butchered animals before. It doesnt worry me and I would be happy to do so again if required. I agree it does provide a far better insight into where your dinner comes from.
£42 is a lot but we bought a crown from M&S and that was £30!
Rare Bird
23-12-2010, 13:48
Perhaps of you lot went out, caught and killed your meat, you might just have more thought for what has given its life so you can stuff yourselves on Christmas Day ;)
P.S. I don't think any methods of slaughter are "humane."
You know Dave just outside our door over the road it's full of Pheasants, the land owners are shooting them all the time, i hate to hear it & feel like going over & shovin those shotguns up their arses..one poor little bugger tottered over the road a couple week ago to escape no doubt & got hit with a car, i went down & took it back over the road, laid it in the field hedge..i could have easily took it in for christmas, i mean 5 mins dead you can't get more fresh than that, but i just couldnt do it..i think if i were to see any animals slaughted i'd never eat meat again, i know i wouldnt.
You know Dave just outside our door over the road it's full of Pheasants, the land owners are shooting them all the time, i hate to hear it & feel like going over & shovin those shotguns up their arses..one poor little bugger tottered over the road a couple week ago to escape no doubt & got hit with a car...
Now that's what you call being shit out of luck....!! :eyebrows:
Soz, I know you were being serious, but I couldn't help giggling.
Marco (a very devoted animal lover, but who thinks goose tastes goooooooood!) ;)
Mark Grant
23-12-2010, 15:59
£42 is a lot but we bought a crown from M&S and that was £30!
That's what I thought, I prefer chicken anyway so we bought a £10 Chicken which weighs 3.6 kilos, big enough for Christmas dinner as only 4 or maybe 5 people.
Mark Grant
23-12-2010, 16:10
I might post the recipe on the foodie thread :cool:
Marco.
yes please :)
Any good chicken tips you or Del could share :)
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1645
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Perhaps of you lot went out, caught and killed your meat, you might just have more thought for what has given its life so you can stuff yourselves on Christmas Day ;)
P.S. I don't think any methods of slaughter are "humane."
Please don't tell me your going to have a tofu turkey.
I'd rather eat sand.
I thought all the bleeding heart crap was an American thing.
I used to hunt with my DAD every season till his passing 3 years ago now.
Only once in my life did the takeing of an animal make me upset.
I was with a good freind hunkered down at the top of a rolling hill with a valley below us and the wind blowing directly in our faces.
We where wareing camo and used natural cover so for the most part we where invisable,unable to be detected by smell ect...
A few blasts from a wounded rabbit call and with in 3 min. we saw our coyote comming into the valley below sniffing the air and listening intently.
Now 200 meters away he began to criss cross across the valley floor getting closser and closser and ocationaly going out of sight behind the tall dry grass.
He dissapeared at 50 meters for 5 min. or so,then out of the corner of my left eye I seen him 3 to 4 meters from me,I rolled to the left and from my very short barreled Remington pistol grip 12 gauge,I hit him sqaure in the chest with 8 pellets 00 buck shot.
His front leggs where both instainly broken and useless,his chest bleeding.
With only his hind leggs he plowed through the tall weeds and dry dirt chin first and ran 40 meters or so,I did manage to get one more shot into him on the way going through his side.
I ran up to him expecting him to be dead, but he raised his head breathing heavily and made eye contact with me for at least half a minite before he died.
I felt like I'd just shot my dog and never hunted coyotes agein.
Deer,boar,phesant yup! but not coyotes after that.
It dose help you to understand that food has a face,but soon that may not be the case.
Thanks, to sience they are geneticly mutateing animals with out heads,no brains other than the small part that regulates breathing and heart beat.
There food is pumped into there stomics through a tube.
They have absolutly no cognitive thought whatsoever.
Guilt free food comming to the grocery near you soon...
Techno Commander
23-12-2010, 19:46
I should clarify my earlier post and state that I am not "into" hunting for recreation. But beef steak and leather boots in fair game. :)
Please don't tell me your going to have a tofu turkey.
Don't be silly, I'm married ;)
£50 for a 12lb bird! :eek: Afraid we tried 2 local butchers the last couple of years and they were overpriced and low on taste, so this year "It's not just a turkey"...
2 crowns for £30 at our local butchers,
For those that can stomach supermarket meat then Christmas Eve afeternoon at Tescos would appear to be the time to do your shopping;). Popped in for a bottle of red wine and came out with
1 x Medium Organic Free Range Turkey £3.60
2 x Gressingham ducks £1.30 each
1 x Large Shoulder of Pork £0.42
All fresh and suitable for home freezing. Would have bought more but the freezer's already nearly full.
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