Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 25, 2024

I druther eat goose than turkey… IF the price was right. And that includes the social and interpersonal price.

They are different holidays with separate origins.

Interestingly, A Christmas Carol supposedly inspired the switch from goose to turkey as the chief meat of the Christmas meal, as Scrooge sends a turkey to the Cratchit home for Christmas.

We never had turkey or goose at Christmas here, we usually had something like roulade or beef or porc tenderloin. Later years we would do a meat fondue or gourmet.

In my house, Christmas would have to be known as Prime Rib Day.

In various years I’ve had turkey (what I was brought up on), goose, duck, chicken… and one Thanksgiving I shared a pheasant.

Goose is delicious, if well cooked.

Does goose taste different than turkey?

In point of fact (I love pulling that phrase out on occasion) the bird delivered to the Cratchits’ home for Christmas was a turkey, so Caulfield is off on this one. As is Jef.

In any case, goose isn’t as thoroughly associated with Christmas as turkey is with Thanksgiving. And if we did call it Goose Day, I would expect more pinching than on St. Patrick’s Day.

I’m told that wild turkey, as probably existed at the time of the Pilgrims, was pretty stringy.

At our ages, tried and true work best. We follow tradition with turkey and oyster stuffing. Only time of year we have oysters so it is a very special treat for us. Never had a taste of goose, but don’t care to make the switch at this holiday.

Christmas fare in French Canada includes allspice flavoured meat pies and pig knuckle stew with meatballs. In my wife’s family they also cooked a turkey but it was used to make turkey meat sandwiches and turkey pot pies.

Mrs. Olsen will give thanks for the extended holiday I’m sure.

Turkey is very prevalent on Thanksgiving, but goose is not very common as a Christmas meal, at least not now and in the US of A.

In Victorian England, they served dead birds on their Christmas greeting cards.

“We do this today on this occasion, but hundreds of years ago in a fictional story about a single event on another occasion something else happened.” Kid’s not very bright.

I’ve never called it “Turkey Day.” Thats seems (to me) to trivialize it and to ignore the real meaning of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is called Turkey Day because it doesn’t have anything better, like presents.

Being thankful for the opportunity to escape the tyranny that we would still be stuck in if we hadn’t struck out to find a new home and ended up here quite by accident is a better reason than ‘presents’. The lives of the pilgrims that came here to escape abuse of authority were horrific.

There’s 27 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, no turkey on Christmas, ham on Christmas and if possible Pineapple Glazed ham Filipino style:)

Calling it “Turkey Day” sidesteps potential disagreement over the indians-and-pilgrims narrative. Happy T-day!

Turkey was also on the menu – goose isn’t as locked in to British Christmas as turkey is to Thanksgiving.

On a FOX interview in October about Springfield, Ohio, “Well what about the goose, the geese? What about the geese? What happened there? They’re all missing,” Trump said.

We had goose on Canadian Thanksgiving. Turkey for USAian Thanksgiving and ham for Xmas.

Some would interpret “Goose Day” in an unmannerly manner. Watch your back (side)!