That puts you in good company, because the standard complaint against the holiday bird is that the meat needs gravy to taste of much and the sides get more praise than the main course. I put together a piece that weighs the turkey on 13 lists, one of them the most overrated food: https://youpick.best/articles/turkey-ranked-many-ways
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the first thanksgiving in North America was celebrated by Martin Frobisher in 1578 in northern Canada.English
2·3 days agoWashington felt differently and issued a Thanksgiving proclamation, and its 200th anniversary in 1989 is when George H. W. Bush turned the White House turkey handover, running since Truman got the first bird in 1947, into a formal pardon. I wrote up that and a dozen other angles on the turkey here: https://youpick.best/articles/turkey-ranked-many-ways
Both of those keep meeting on all-time lists: Ocarina of Time has been the default pick since 1998, and on one list of 35 games it shares the field with GTA V and RDR2, Tetris and Minecraft. I wrote about the GTA side, GTA against Red Dead on 12 lists: youpick.best/articles/gta-vs-red-dead-redemption-ranked


Honestly the bar isn’t high: McDonald’s scored 72 in the 2026 ACSI customer satisfaction numbers, six points under Burger King and well behind Chick-fil-A at 83. I compared the two chains across 13 lists here: https://youpick.best/articles/mcdonalds-vs-burger-king-ranked