Christmas Idiom with the word "Turkey"

Restaurant owners asking customers to make their own food at home would be "like turkeys voting for Christmas".
This is a Christmas Idiom mainly used in British English. If people are "like turkeys voting for Christmas", they choose to accept a situation which will have very bad results for them in the future. In the United States, though, the phrases "turkeys voting for Thanksgiving" and "chickens voting for Colonel Sanders" are often used instead. In Canada, because  of the story of Mouseland, a famous story, people  commonly use "like mice voting for cats". The turkey, the chicken and the mice expressions are very helpful and can be used for the same idea.

Read the story of Mouseland


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