Anonymous wrote:We do elk

See? This person knows how to live. Next do moose.

I don't understand the draw of turkey. I guess it's cheap meat for volume?

In our house ham is for Easter, turkey is for Thanksgiving and beef is for Christmas.

There's always been variation around what people have for Christmas, or even whether it was dinner on the 24th or 25th.

My mother's was a turkey on the 25th, Thanksgiving repeat except pies were replaced with cookies and cake, and oyster soup was served with the turkey. My father's was prime rib roast with yorkshire pudding and plum pudding en flambe on the 24th after the Christmas Eve services in late afternoon. For my childhood the beef won out and I always liked having two distinct meals.

Every once in a while we do smothered turkey wings (I think this is more of a southern/country thing). The wings are the best part of the turkey, the dryness that everyone complains about is the typically the breasts.

I think Christmas lends itself better to a prime rib or a ham.

We have London Broil at Christmas. Turkey for Thanksgiving, ham for Easter

Ham was always the thing.

I do roast chicken. Much better flavor.

We do elk

Standing rib roast with horseradish cream sauce for us

We are doing short rib instead

Anonymous wrote:Pasta, Veal, Chicken, Pasta, Pasta....

No.

Turkey is a very British thing, thanks to Scrooge in a Christmas Carol. But we have Thanksgiving so no need to repeat that menu so soon. We do ham.

Pasta, Veal, Chicken, Pasta, Pasta....