I have had amazing frozen butter balls and bleh farm raised.

Anonymous wrote:Cook your turkey breast side down and you’ll have a moist breast. Forget about the crunchy top shouldn’t need the skin anyway.

Nooooo!!!! Just don’t overcook it and it will be lovely, but the skin is amazing!

We order one from the poultry place at our Farmer’s Market. That is worthwhile. Otherwise, any grocery store turkey is largely interchangeable.

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Cook your turkey breast side down and you’ll have a moist breast. Forget about the crunchy top shouldn’t need the skin anyway.

They mostly come from the same places.
Raise your own if you want something different. Or get a wild one.

In 46 years of Thanksgiving, I've had exactly one turkey that stood out and it was a heritage from a poultry farm. All other times the turkey tasted the same and always on the drier side, whether fancy or butterball.

Agree that how you cook and baste makes more of a difference.

We always get the regular grocery store Butterball turkey and it turns out great. My sister gets a fancy heritage turkey when she hosts and that’s really good too. How you cook it is more important.

If you enjoy roasted turkey -- which I, for one, definitely do -- does it matter to you where you purchase it? Grocery store, fancier grocery store, really special butcher/farm shop?