{"id":13334,"date":"2018-12-07T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T08:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13334"},"modified":"2018-12-07T08:36:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T08:36:19","slug":"turkey-with-all-the-trimmings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13334","title":{"rendered":"Turkey with all the trimmings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storycopy\">Approximately 10 million turkeys are eaten in the UK every year with\u00a087 per cent of people choosing to serve\u00a0traditional roast turkey at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storycopy\">Turkeys were first introduced to\u00a0Britain from America over\u00a0500 years ago.\u00a0Henry VIII was the first British King to enjoy turkey in the 16th century, although it was Edward VII who made eating turkey at Christmas fashionable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storycopy\">However, it took until the 1950\u2019s for the bird to be served by most families. Prior to that it was widely considered a luxury. In the 1930s the average person had to work for a week to be able to buy a turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storycopy\">In many\u00a0other European countries, turkey is not a traditional Christmas meal. For example \u00a0Germans serve\u00a0wild boar or venison.\u00a0In Portugal, the typical Christmas dinner\u00a0is codfish. Similarly,\u00a0in Sweden cooked and raw fish is served, as well as caviar and shellfish.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC Good Food Guide has a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcgoodfood.com\/videos\/techniques\/how-carve-turkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a>\u00a0to help you carve your turkey.<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t forget the trimmings. It wouldn\u2019t be Christmas without the Brussels sprouts\u2026.and stuffing, potatoes, carrots, parsnips,\u00a0pigs-in-blankets, cranberry sauce\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_media-122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-media-122\" style=\"width: 1880px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13335\" src=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/pexels-photo-265393.jpeg\" alt=\"chicken close up dish food\" width=\"1880\" height=\"1253\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-media-122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Public Domain Pictures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/chicken-close-up-dish-food-265393\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pexels.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 10 million turkeys are eaten in the UK every year with\u00a087 per cent of people choosing to serve\u00a0traditional roast turkey at Christmas. Turkeys were first introduced to\u00a0Britain from America over\u00a0500 years ago.\u00a0Henry VIII was the first British King to enjoy turkey in the 16th century, although it was Edward VII who made eating turkey &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13334\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turkey with all the trimmings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521,673,730],"tags":[130,570],"class_list":["post-13334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar-events-misc","category-discover","category-party","tag-christmas","tag-turkey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Turkey with all the trimmings - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13334\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Turkey with all the trimmings - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Approximately 10 million turkeys are eaten in the UK every year with\u00a087 per cent of people choosing to serve\u00a0traditional roast turkey at Christmas. 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