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Any one else repulsed by turkey?
Last year when I made our Thanksgiving turkey...it repulsed me.  The smell, the taste, the leftovers, everything. Yuck  Hubby loved it. I have not been able to eat turkey since. I just find it..gross. Chicken is still just fine and tasty...but something about turkey got under my skin and I don't want it at all...and I'll eat anything! (but anchovey or sardines) Anyone else grossed out about turkey?
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NOPE. Turkeys are delicious to me.
Why did you get grossed out, I wonder? hmm. Have you always felt like this or is it new?
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I understand.
Several years ago my mom got a huge turkey and did it in a bag. It was slimy greasy. I took home the pounds and pounds of meat and the carcass and tore it apart.
I tried to make stock with the carcass, but the fat would NEVER separate. It stayed this filmy milky white color. It was so disgusting and so awful that I didn't eat turkey for quite a while.
I can eat a 'real' turkey, but not a slimy greasy store bought one. And for a long time I ahted the smell of roasting turkey too.
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11/22/09, 10:02 PM
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Minelson, I have the same problem. I can tolerate it on the day it is cooked. Breast meat only. I don't have seconds though.
The smell of the leftovers makes me feel ill, and I can't stand the taste. I've still eaten it though, on a sandwich the day after, but it has to be masked by a lot of cranberry jelly or mayo or something else for me to be able to stomach it. Again, only the breast meat and NOT heated. I REALLY can't stand reheated/recooked turkey. Blech.
Each year we have turkey and each year I'm reminded that I really can't stand it.. the rest of the family really enjoys it though. 
Oddly enough, cold cuts of turkey (like from the deli) I really like and have no problem with. Go figure.
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11/22/09, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by gone-a-milkin
NOPE. Turkeys are delicious to me.
Why did you get grossed out, I wonder? hmm. Have you always felt like this or is it new?
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NO! this was the first time...I usually love turkey and especially turkey leftovers. Maybe it did have something to do with the grease or something like Chickenista mentioned. It was store bought...but I was raised on store bought.
We are having steak on the grill this year.
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Originally Posted by WildernesFamily
Minelson, I have the same problem. I can tolerate it on the day it is cooked. Breast meat only. I don't have seconds though.
The smell of the leftovers makes me feel ill, and I can't stand the taste. I've still eaten it though, on a sandwich the day after, but it has to be masked by a lot of cranberry jelly or mayo or something else for me to be able to stomach it. Again, only the breast meat and NOT heated. I REALLY can't stand reheated/recooked turkey. Blech.
Each year we have turkey and each year I'm reminded that I really can't stand it.. the rest of the family really enjoys it though.
Oddly enough, cold cuts of turkey (like from the deli) I really like and have no problem with. Go figure. |
Yep! That is me now! thank you for sharing  I'm not alone!
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11/22/09, 11:42 PM
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I haven't had turkey for years. I have beef, lamb, goose, duck, goat, or fish for holiday meals. I love cornbread dressing, fresh cranberry sauce or relish and most of the traditional holiday foods. Turkey just leaves me cold.
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I like it when it is freshly cooked. When I smell it the next day, my stomach just does a flip-flop. Don't know why...
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11/23/09, 02:08 AM
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Well since it has been a year it could not be from pregnancy 
With my son it was pumpkin pie, made me want to hurl, with my daughter it was cole slaw. After I gave birth I liked them both again.
Might have just caught you at a weird time or did you cook it differently like chickenista mentioned?
I like it and I like it cold the next day or two as well but only the white meat. Dark goes to the animals, nasty veins and all.
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Sometimes any kind of meat or poultry will smell or taste off to me and make me feel sick. I found it related to those days when my sinuses were infected or flared-up. Makes sense now. I have to be a vegetarian on bad sinus days......
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11/23/09, 05:54 AM
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I can eat turkey or chicken year round, but dh won't eat either one. He doesn't like the texture of the meat.
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We always have turkey for thanksgiving but not really crazy about it. I like white meat and turkey meat is dry. Last year I bought an electric turkey fryer and we had moist delicious fried turkey. I would just do the breast but my DS likes drumsticks.
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I'm the opposite.
LOVE turkey!
LOVE good roast turkey!
LOVE fried turkey!
LOVE good stuffing! And all the others things that go along with it.
LOVE left over turkey sandwiches!
LOVE left over turkey hash!
LOVE good turkey gravy made from the pan drippings.
Don't like deli sliced turkey.
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Are you sure you're not pregnant? My wife loved my stir fry until the day she got pregnant with #2 and all of sudden, I'm not welcome to sit by her and eat the food! Ever since, she has hated the smell of ANY stir fry. #2 came out just fine 7 months ago....
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11/23/09, 10:36 AM
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I can't stand the smell of cooking turkey, either. Once it's about 90% done I do better. When I roast one I do it on the back porch and that solves the problem for me. Left overs are not a big problem. DH is NOT a left overs eater so I usually cook up the carcus for meaty broth to can and send the rest home with everyone else. If I end up with some, I freeze it for later.
DH offered that we do something different then turkey this year since I already canned 2, he figured smelling one more turkey may just put me over the edge, LOL! What he doesn't realize is by roasting a turkey for T-day that's one less I have to can (and smell). At $.40 a pound I bought 4 and I'm not going to leave them in the freezer taking up all the valuable space for too long.
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11/23/09, 10:39 AM
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I love the taste of both turkey and chicken, but I can not stand touching it uncooked. I feel like I should soak my hands in bleach for an hour!
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11/23/09, 11:02 AM
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I like turkey on the day it is roasted, but wasn't too thrilled about the leftovers until I found this recipe:
Turkey Frozen Daiquiri
1 small onion
2 medium avacados
1 cup leftover turkey
4 1/2 oz. rum
Place all ingredients in blender and fill with ice. Blend until smooth. Serve as is or freeze until frozen and scoop out as slush into glasses. Garnish with mint leaves or cranberries.
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11/23/09, 11:03 AM
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I love turkey. It does taste "weird" as a rewarmed leftover sometimes, but I've found a way around this. I heat up the gravy in a sauce pan, and then throw turkey meat in it to heat after it's come to a /simmer/boil. It tastes like the first day again. Mmm, hot turkey sandwiches with stuffing on the side. Love Thanksgiving leftovers. My DH, however, is not a fan of turkey at all.
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DH wont eat turkey and DS doesnt care to much for it so I fix them a ham and me and my girls a turkey that way we all get what we like on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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I also think it has to do with the fact that people tend to overbake or overcook the turkey resulting in a very dry turkey. Best turkey I've ever had was professionally cooked by a chef. Yum! Moist but yet not too moist.
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