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LOL!! Daniel, that was funny.
Actually I have a buddy who cooks a goose sometime throughout the year and I insist it's really a duck. And another thing, forget the turducken. I can't prepare anything the name of which begins with those 4 letters.

My go-to for Christmas is a standing rib roast (or a nice dry-aged prime rib eye roast if we're doing a small group). But, our only Christmas tradition is to do something untraditional, at least every other year. We've often been found in the supermarket in the late afternoon on Christmas Day, searching for the ingredients for some random craving that's struck. One year it was hot pastrami and swiss sandwiches (took four markets before we found a little pathetic chunk of pastrami). Another year it was SOS aka chipped beef on toast (that chipped beef is hard to find in the first place, much less just before closing on Xmas). And growing up, some version of Mexican food was frequent (inescapable in So Calif). But the thing my Mommee made most often was her famous lasagne. MMMmmmmmmm.

Anyway. I might make a small turkey to accompany the roast for new D-i-L as she's not a huge meat fan.

An Alsatian Christmas with a large platter of sauerkraut, sausages, dumplings, ham, etc., Riesling, apple & cranberry strudel, and a few more things that I can't remember (my mom is the self designated holiday chef). The table looks just as impressive and it is also something we don't eat any old day during the year. My mom did this about 15 years ago for the first time, at first we all grumbled heartily about the loss of our Christmas Turkey, but by the time we'd finished dinner we were ready to make a new tradition!

We never have turkey for Xmas. We often have a standing rack of beef ribs with Yorkshire pudding, that's a pretty traditional one. This year we're doing goose.

I'll go with you, Lucy: either the roast or the goose would be nice. I think we usually do a Christmas ham at my parents' house because of the whole "just had turkey" issue.