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Have Reform backers abandoned the Brussel sprout?

Presumably 'Calgie' wasn't around in the 50s when you were lucky to get some horsemeat. Victorians had Goose Clubs. Paid 6d a week for about three months to receive a goose and a bottle of spirits. Is this another weird myth like the one about no-one being able to say "Merry Christmas" any more?

Oh, bravo 👏👏👏👏

If they were really bothered about tradition, they would want us all to eat goose.

So he wants it to be the law to eat turkey on Christmas day?

Gobble(degook)

I look forward to being force fed turkey when Nige is in charge then 😳

And Christmas celebrations were banned from 1647 until the restoration in 1660. (I do think this is a joke though)

Jokes on him, little does Christian know everyone will be tucking into ultra-trad roast goose and honey glazed turnip this Christmas

Would turkey tikka masala be ok Nige?

Never have turkey - technically speaking it is shite. Beef, lamb, pork, goose, duck, chicken way better if a meat eater.

He's just shilling for Big Turkey isn't he?

They are thick, and don't seem to mind showing their ignorance.

Turkey 🦃 is shite!! (Sorry if I've offended any turkeys reading this)

"YOU VIL EAT YOUR CHRISTMAZ DINNER!!"

This a great idea.

Genuinely breaking the non Turkey taboo improves Christmas so much!!

I mean, he’s purportedly a fully grown adult. You’re allowed to eat whatever you want whenever you want mate, just like everyone else. These numpties demand untrammelled freedoms but also want to be ordered by NF as to what is an acceptable dinner. Overgrown public school babies.

Americans eat turkey for Christmas lunch, most in the UK don't anyway. I'm surprised a journalist wasn't aware*. Waitrose is showcasing Beef Wellington. *I'm not, all his stuff is performative.

That tweet is dumb on so many levels that it deserves to be ridiculed, but the quality of this joke seems like a waste.

Presumably this means ‘Christian’s voting for turkey’ 🤔

the article in question here: archive.ph/EaKEy we've always done chicken because... 1. it's a much better, and less dry, meat. 2. you don't have leftovers in March. mind you, after #brexit and because Henry VIII preferred it, this year we will be having: goose, boar’s head and peacock.

Sublime!

Weird. I'm pretty sure that before and during quite a lot of the Tudor period nobody in Britain ate turkey at all, ever. I'd wager that turkey only became the most popular xmas meat in the 20th century. Beef or gammon are more traditional, no?

In your head

turducken!!!

Turnips, mr. Blackadder.

Sounds like a plot for Dennis WHEATley...

I don't know who this gentleman is and I do not wish to know.

Are the turkey police going to come around knocking on doors at Christmas?

Knows nothing of history, myself I'll be having swan as per all that time in history when nobs like me had it, and the rest only had turkey (or meat) in their dreams

Genuinely can’t tell if the quoted post is satire

As there were more Christmases,Samhains saturnalias, Yules, before turkey was introduced than after then history seems a stretch

It looks like the breakdown he had after calling for Zarah Sultana to be deported was real. And there was me thinking he'd just made it up to avoid any consequences.

Looking at his account, I think he is being sarcastic....

You must eat the shittest of meats or you're a traitor.

I shall be having a 'crackling' christmas dinner again, turkeys are an unwelcome import that the yanks can keep!

'Mandatory turkey for all': nice to see Reform-aligned journalists have such a well judged finger on the public pulse.

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I love it. Is he hoping that eating Turkey will become law? Will the Christmas dinner police be carrying out random inspections?