For most of the year, supermarket shoppers walk, with barely a sideways glance, past the various turkey offerings in supermarket aisles and butcher shops. Until December, that is, because that’s when turkeys take centre stage.
Because what is lunch on December 25 without this big bird as the centrepiece? Say Christmas lunch to any Brit, and we’re pretty much all conjuring the same image: a table set with platters of honey-kissed carrots and parsnips, golden roasties crisped up in goose fat, sprouts made tantalising with pancetta, pools of cranberry and bread sauce, and mountains of pigs-in-blankets orbiting the centrepiece, a golden brown turkey.
