On my radio program this morning, Bob Clark: whole thanksgiving turkeys are going for between $76 to $126 each! Wow, I’d like to refinance my mortgage for thanksgiving dinner....
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On my radio program this morning, Bob Clark: whole thanksgiving turkeys are going for between $76 to $126 each! Wow, I’d like to refinance my mortgage for thanksgiving dinner....
It better be stuffed with a Christmas tree to make it worth it!
We got 15 - 16 # birds for less then $6 each (at that price we got a few extra).
That’s what I normally do! Not this year. Maybe we’ll go all out and eat a peacock this year. Go exotic. Fuck the governor of NM!!!
Wow...we only pay 19 cents a pound.
But it is a lot of food. You eat it for days. And you boil up the bits and leavings of the carcass to make a soup.
If the price really is too crazy, the holiday mood will depend on cranberry sauce and stuffing, never eaten any other time, and a whole chicken might have to understudy the turkey and act as if. Surround it with potatoes and greens such as parsley on a platter, and don't worry about it.
But I paid $8 per bird the last Few years! Insanity. Price gouging people right now is not a good habit to get in to. They caged my leprechaun, the shot the Easter bunny. Uncle Sam was in shackles on the fourth. Kids if all ages couldn’t escape the tedium with ridiculous costumes for Halloween. Veterans were shut in on THEIR day. Shared turkey and love are discouraged and frowned upon, too many of you and someone’s going to jail. What’s next? They going to hang Santa Claus in the town square? How much are we willing to take? When do we all just stand up and say a collective NO?! Insanity...
Totally agree. Well said.
When demand for Thanksgiving turkeys is uncertain, their price goes up. Turkey producers have a good idea of demand, in a normal year. Therefore: a low price.
Now, with All This going on, they are not so sure: will there be a demand for the big-gathering, large, turkeys? Some think so, and produce them. Some don't think so, and don't produce them. Result is lower supply of such birds. Lower supply drives price up. A loss of economy of scale pushes the price up.
People MUST continue traditions.
What you insist on, you continue to have.
I feel so bad for the littlest of us. They are the generation that will be totally warped by this.
They will certainly feel the tensions. But some of the deprivations may be for the better. Learning at home may bring unexpected pleasures to those doing the teaching. Simply being around family more, because of the isolating, may bring increased family cohesion.
There can be no doubt that parents now know much, much, more about what was going on in the schools. Teachers have tried hard to exclude parents from the room, during virtual distance-teaching, but without success.
So many other stories are more important now. But this is a hidden story that will burst forth later in the spring and summer.
A general sense of needing to come together and prepare for difficulties may confer an atmosphere of seriousness, and unity, that may be good for the children.
I wouldn't want it to go any further, though. I agree with you about that.