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What's the best part of the turkey?
Breast 36%  36%  [ 4 ]
Thigh 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Leg 9%  9%  [ 1 ]
Wing 9%  9%  [ 1 ]
Back 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Neck 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Gizzards and Livers 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Ahh, all turkey is gross. 9%  9%  [ 1 ]
I'll just have stuffing, please. 18%  18%  [ 2 ]
Hanzo's penis. 9%  9%  [ 1 ]
Other 9%  9%  [ 1 ]
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:53 am 
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Is your answer the same as for your favorite piece of chicken? Or does it change with the scale-up?

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:08 am 
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I picked the stuffing. Not because I don't like Turkey, because I do, but I looooooove stuffing. I think I like pretty much all turkey, though I tend to eat more of the white meat than the dark.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:08 am 
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Hanzo will always be my favourite piece of turkey. :ohyes:


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:39 am 
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Wing.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:45 am 
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Queen Vicky wrote:
I picked the stuffing. Not because I don't like Turkey, because I do, but I looooooove stuffing.


You should invite me over for some stuffing.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:23 am 
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Never had turkey livers or gizzards. They have good breast meat, and I don't even mind if it turns out dry. Smoked turkey legs are pretty good too.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:09 pm 
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I thought this was still the chicken thread!


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:42 pm 
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 3:48 pm 
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Actually, turkey is often drier than chicken, so the white meat becomes less appealing, and the dark meat becomes more appealing.

The wing definitely isn't as good - too often, it's overcooked and too much of the skin is dry and leathery.

The drumstick is usually a treat, however, and actually fun to eat as you take it apart section by section and suck mineralized tendons clean - it's far more complex than a chicken drumstick, and you work on different muscles separately, unlike a chicken drumstick that you can virtually suck clean almost as if it's uniformly covered in one kind of meat. Done a grill, like at a Renaissance fair, turkey drumsticks are quite delicious, and I'd definitely rather have that while walking around, and probably a drumstick as a turkey leftover more than any other part.

Scaled up, the drumstick is more consistently the best piece.

A moist, tender, and flavorful slice of breast meat is pretty great, too, but that's harder to come by. It's often a crap shoot, and through no great fault on the part of the cook, a turkey could be dry, or tough, or lack flavor. Any one of those, and the breast meat isn't as good as a drumstick. OTOH, it is much harder to ruin a drumstick, or just get a turkey that has a bad drumstick. Dark meat is so much more forgiving that way.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 3:52 pm 
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While I love a good chicken heart, a turkey heart was kind of gross, and the turkey gizzard was much tougher. Of course, all liver has been consistently disgusting, so I never tried turkey liver.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:31 pm 
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I like the oysters - the little dollop of meat on the back over the hip bones.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:41 pm 
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Tuna wrote:
I like the oysters - the little dollop of meat on the back over the hip bones.

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Turkey oysters? Is that anything like prairie oysters?

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:30 am 
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I'm really the only person that thinks turkey is gross?
:sigh:

you people are weird, weird poultry loving weirdos.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:17 am 
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My favorite part of the turkey is the gravy.

Followed closely by the tryptophan.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:02 am 
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:57 pm 
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I know a few people who do not like the poultry. I, however, do like it and it was the first meat I started to eat after not being a vegetarian anymore.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:00 pm 
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Jimbo wrote:
Turkey oysters? Is that anything like prairie oysters?

Not at all. They are these funny pockets of meat at the base of the back and are about as big as a soup spoon.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:02 pm 
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:04 pm 
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Not a fan of turkey normally but in the case of these cupcakes, the icing is my favourite part of the turkey.

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/mollykateri/11- ... ent-turkey


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:11 pm 
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Istanbul, Cappadocia, the Black Sea coast...it's hard to pick just one piece that's best!

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That meddlin kid wrote:
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... not Constantinople?


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