Bacon Wrapped Turkey / myLot

United States

January 8, 2024 1:49pm CST

I am not a person who likes turkey, mainly because it always seems dry. Then a guy and his wife from my dad’s church sent something from their dinner party home with my dad to eventually pass on to me. Green beans with diced onions and bacon, mashed potatoes and gravy, homemade rolls, and four “mini loaf” pans of turkey wrapped bacon. I don’t know what they did in cooking that turkey, but it was so moist and flavorful! The bacon was added after the turkey was finished cooking, so I can’t even credit the flavor of the bacon. I’d like to know their secret. Does anyone out there like turkey? We never really had it for Thanksgiving either, which is when Americans traditionally go turkey crazy.

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21 responses

Marie

@Tampa_girl7 (51741)

• United States

8 Jan 24

I enjoyed turkey when I was young. I always ate the dark meat. Usually having a leg. I’m no longer crazy about turkey, but we occasionally have one. I do like sliced deli turkey for sandwiches.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (96293)

• United States

8 Jan 24

I do love the dark meat.

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snowy

@snowy22315 (185905)

• United States

8 Jan 24

I like it, and turkey wrapped bacon sounds yummy too. Isn't supposed to be bacon wrapped turkey though? How do you wrap turkey around bacon? Isn't just liked in the center or something...That reminds me I have some ground turkey here too and some bacon. I have never tried it, but a former roomie used to make a bacon wrapped meatloaf that looked pretty good.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (96293)

• United States

8 Jan 24

I first wrote bacon wrapped turkey. Then I switched it. Then I switched it again. Then again. Then I told myself I was wasting time, and I should just leave it.

*I fixed the title for ya.

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snowy

@snowy22315 (185905)

• United States

8 Jan 24

@AmbiePam Ha! OK..I was pretty sure I knew what you meant.

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YoghurtGal

@flapiz (23292)

• United Kingdom

8 Jan 24

Like you I an not a fan of turkey too due to it's lack of moist

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Dena Miller

@Dena91 (16847)

• United States

8 Jan 24

We love turkey. We have had bacon wrapped turkey before and liked it. If you buy those cooking bags, made by Reynolds Wrap sold with ziplock bags and such, they seem to keep the turkey moist.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (96293)

• United States

8 Jan 24

That’s good to know.

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Mildred Tabitha

@mildredtabitha (16279)

• Nairobi, Kenya

9 Jan 24

I don't remember the taste of turkey. I think I ate it many years ago. I like mashed potatoes.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (96293)

• United States

9 Jan 24

Mashed potatoes with gravy is absolutely delicious.

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Mildred Tabitha

@mildredtabitha (16279)

• Nairobi, Kenya

9 Jan 24

@AmbiePam very sweet.

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J.N.R Dutton

@jnrdutton (3257)

• United States

8 Jan 24

I am not big on bacon at all, but I do like turkey, and I'm glad you enjoyed.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (96293)

• United States

8 Jan 24

We found the one person in America who doesn’t like bacon! Actually, your body probably thanks you for that since it’s not exactly healthy.

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J.N.R Dutton

@jnrdutton (3257)

• United States

8 Jan 24

@AmbiePam I've mentioned to other friends that I'm not big on bacon and they act like I have lost my mind at times lol. Incidentally my father doesn't eat pig products at all, and hasn't as far as I've ever known.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (141586)

• India

8 Jan 24

There is no turkey around here.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (96293)

• United States

9 Jan 24

You aren’t missing out.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (141586)

• India

9 Jan 24

@AmbiePam It's a while that I have stopped eating meat anyway

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Shavkat

@Shavkat (140309)

• Philippines

9 Jan 24

I think I would not like having some turkey meat. It is not what I wanted.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (142103)

• Roseburg, Oregon

9 Jan 24

That turkey sounds really good. That is good that you enjoyed it.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (112286)

• Marion, Ohio

8 Jan 24

I like it

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MARILYN

@Marilynda1225 (83869)

• United States

10 Jan 24

Actually I love turkey and like it way more than chicken. That bacon wrapped turkey sounds delicious and how nice of that couple to send you such a nice meal. If you find out the secret to that moist turkey let us know. I do agree that turkey is a bit on the dry side.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (96293)

• United States

10 Jan 24

That’s a good question! I’ll have to ask them.

Fleur

@Fleura (31114)

• United Kingdom

8 Jan 24

I like turkey, and I don't usually find it dry, I guess it depends how it's cooked. Also I always preferred the legs. When I was growing up we always had a turkey at Christmas but since then I've had other things more often, we've only had one turkey as a family I think. When I was living in MN, one year I was invited to join some distant not-quite-relatives (long story) for Christmas or Thanksgiving, and they prepared a deep-fried turkey. Never heard of that idea before. I don't think they had either, but their son produced this huge fryer and supervised the cooking (we were all a bit scared to be honest!) But the resulting turkey was really very good.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (96293)

• United States

8 Jan 24

Oh yes, deep frying a turkey is very popular here. The amount of fires started over the holidays due to deep frying accidents is incredible. I never got the option of a turkey leg. By the time the turkey made it’s way to the table, it had been cut into pieces, and you selected the meat from a huge tray. Eventually, there was so much turkey left over everyone switched to serving a big ham. That they did let you cut your own (not that it mattered since all ham is the same).

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Babes Says

@BabeSays (8575)

• Mauritius

10 Jan 24

I've never had turkey in my entire life. I was once told it taste like chicken but it a bit harder to chew.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (96293)

• United States

10 Jan 24

I wouldn’t say it’s that much harder to chew, but if one cooks it for too long I bet it does get hard to chew.

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Babes Says

@BabeSays (8575)

• Mauritius

10 Jan 24

@AmbiePam I thought so too. I remember my mom tried cooking duck and I did not like it as it was too chewy and wasn't juicy.

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Courtney Dutton

@MommyOfEli2013 (84585)

• Rupert, Idaho

8 Jan 24

I am not a big fan of turkey meat itself either because of the dryness. That's good they made it in a way that it wasn't dry.... I do like turkey deli meat and I like turkey bacon.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (96293)

• United States

8 Jan 24

Turkey bacon, yum!

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Courtney Dutton

@MommyOfEli2013 (84585)

• Rupert, Idaho

8 Jan 24

@AmbiePam It is good. Though I like regular bacon if cooked right too

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popciclecold

@popciclecold (39859)

• United States

9 Jan 24

I've never heard of it, but the way you describe it I would love to try. It sounds good.

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much2say

@much2say (57291)

• Los Angeles, California

9 Jan 24

I love turkey! Growing up, we'd only get it once or twice a year . . . yep for the holidays - so I always looked forward to turkey. And bacon is just so tasty . . . bacon and bacon drippings make a lot of things tasty

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Anna

@LadyDuck (472503)

• Switzerland

9 Jan 24

Same as you, I do not like turkey because it is too dry. My husband liked, I used to buy a very small one that I baked in the oven. I used to spoon some chicken broth over the turkey while it roasted, take it out of the oven, cover and let it rest 15 minutes before cutting. It was not dry.

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