Turkey - it depends on who is cooking it! My Mother in law? Her turkeys are always soggy, so absolutely white meat, which tends to be drier in the first place. My brother’s spatchcocked turkey with compound butter pushed under the skin? Both please and thank you!
A properly cooked deep fried turkey (rare, but I do like them) both please.
A -smoked- turkey (my FiL did this two years)? Dark meat all the way, works great with the smoke flavor.
When in doubt though, white meat over dark. I’ll take too dry and cover it up, than someone cooking rubbery dark meat. It’s the texture rather than the flavor though.
I once cooked a turkey in my smoker using apple and cherry wood. The dark meat tasted like slow roasted pork. That’s a good thing, for those wondering.
My dog is a very good dog, but at 7 months, I have to say “What have you got in your mouth?” way too often.
My vet told me that the LD50 for chocolate is about the same (in grams of chocolate per kilogram of body mass) for dogs as for people. The difference is that if you leave a toddler with a pound of chocolate, they’ll eat an ounce or two and smear a lot on the furniture. Whereas if you leave a ten pound dog with a pound of chocolate, the dog might eat it all.
I do like the free breakfasts at hotels. I don’t usually eat breakfast except when I travel so it’s something to look forward to and it will tide me over until later in the day when I have to scrounge around for evening sustenance. Even a coffee and a danish is enough on most occasions but I do love to have a good traveling breakfast.
I was just booking a room in a small town in the Netherlands, and my wife piped up to say that she wanted free breakfast. As it happened, there were so few hotels available, and they were so small, that I ended up having to decide between that and a private shower and bathroom, and I picked the latter.
But generally, I only want the free breakfast when I’m pretty sure what it is. I used to travel a lot, and the range was mind-boggling. (but generally speaking, free breakfast in a southeast Asia mega hotel is the best)
I like having breakfast at the hotel. I’m usually pretty happy with German and Scandinavian hotel breakfasts. One in Finland really stood out, we ate so much we skipped lunch. Japanese hotels have nice breakfasts. Never been to southeast Asian hotels.
Thai hotels with breakfast tend toward western food. Bacon and eggs and bagels and muffins. It’s usually pretty good, but that’s not what I’m in Thailand for. Gimme a spicy meat-noodle-veggie dish, guys. Or larb!
Like a “Free lunch”, I don’t think there is such a thing as a “free breakfast” you either pay for a package of room + breakfast or just pay for the room even if a specific hotel only offers one option. I will always eat some breakfast to if there are two equal quality hotels equally convenient in location one offering a “free breakfast” but one offering the same Breakfast of $10 I will go for the one with the lowest toal cost. Hotels not offering breakfast at all would considered based on the convenience and value of breakfast at a suitable location.
My last trip to the States (from the UK) was a bit of an exception I was touring the Utah and Arizona National Parks and came up with the plan of going to bed about 9pm and getting up about 5am on and then on travel days getting to the next National Park as it was opening up, the roads were much quieter I was driving while well rested and arriving when there was plenty of space to park. Very few hotels offer Breakfast at 5am so I would eat on the way, the US has more places you can go to eat breakfast than most places I have been to.
I think most of the respondents stay at a better class of hotels than I do.
Most of the ones that I visit that have “breakfast included” mean a juice dispenser, a coffee dispenser, a milk dispenser, 3-4 types of cereal, “hot” water with tea bags, and maybe a dozen options of toast, bagels and danish. Maybe one of those semi-automated waffle machines.
Been a while since I stayed at any hotel, and when I did either the hotel choice was decided by that being the one where the conference was, or was decided by the cheapest place I thought would be clean and safe and reasonably easy to get to.
If I were going to stay in a hotel someplace not under one of those conditions, it would depend on what the breakfast was, what I was doing the day(s) I might eat breakfast there, what the difference in price was between that and a similar hotel without the “free” breakfast, and how close, convenient, and good other places offering breakfast were.
A lot of the hotels I stay at are the event’s choice, which means we have a bunch of rooms there; IOW, we’re a more equal pig. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve been told there going to open breakfast up early for us & when we go down at ±5am there’s nothing there & the desk clerk knows nothing about an early breakfast.
Yup, me, too
Look at Mr. Hoity-Toity here.
I’m away a lot but like I said above, most of the hotels are chosen by someone else. Of the times that I’m paying for it, it’s usually one night crashpad enroute to somewhere else. When I’m getting in late & leaving early I’m not as concerned about the amenities & would prefer to pick up something quick to go rather than taking the time in a sitdown restaurant, If they have a real breakfast, great but if it’s a shitty continental one I may grab something to go & then hit somewhere quick on my way out of town.
I’m trying to find pictures of some of the hotels we stayed at in Asia, but alas, it’s been too long. But a couple I recall had massive breakfast areas - buffets with both local breakfast foods and generic breakfast foods, as well as stations for hot foods like omelets or whatever. My recollection was that they ran along the outside of a floor with great views.
This could have been any number of places…Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Mumbai/Delhi. My memory’s going!
Most of my hotel/motel staying over the last 40 years has been traveling with my Debate team. Free breakfast never got my business. “Denny’s in the parking lot” did. Nice to have a place where when you roll in at 1am with a van full of bleary-yet-hyper teenage dorks, they don’t even blink, having seen much weirder shit pretty much nightly.
That’s a dozen total mind you. White bread, wheat bread, bagel, 2 types of donuts, and 2-3 other danish. As for the waffle machine, trust me, you’re better off with the toast!
