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re: Thanksgiving dinner is historically affordable this year
Posted on 11/25/24 at 1:05 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 11/25/24 at 1:05 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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abandoning traditions due to laziness is SAD
I don't care much for turkey or ham.
I'm not going to like it just because it's supposed to be tradition.
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Posted on 11/25/24 at 1:25 pm to auggie
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NEW YORK (AP) — With Thanksgiving less than two weeks away, Walmart, Target, Aldi and other grocers are competing for a place on holiday tables with turkey dinner deals and other promotions to tempt Americans who haven't recovered from recent food price inflation. Walmart, the nation’s largest food retailer, first bundled the makings of a traditional turkey feast into a meal deal three years ago. This year, the 29-item offer, which includes a frozen turkey and ingredients for side dishes, costs less than $55 and is intended to serve eight. That calculates to less than $7 per person.
Awgustadawg, is it historically affordable or did the purposely lower the prices with no correlating drop in inflation?
Posted on 11/25/24 at 2:20 pm to Proximo
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is it historically affordable
A basic traditional Thanksgiving dinner is historically affordable. That's why all the linking it to political arguments is just basic American political gotcha talking points with little substance.
What this thread says more about is the amount of Americans that buy, for example. 2 packages of preservative filled dinner rolls for $10 when you can make healthier, more delicious "traditional" ones from scratch for less than 1/2 that.
This post was edited on 11/25/24 at 2:22 pm
Posted on 11/25/24 at 2:31 pm to wm72
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A basic traditional Thanksgiving dinner is historically affordable. That's why all the linking it to political arguments is just basic American political gotcha talking points with little substance.
What this thread says more about is the amount of Americans that buy, for example. 2 packages of preservative filled dinner rolls for $10 when you can make healthier, more delicious "traditional" ones from scratch for less than 1/2 that.
Right on brother! Just pound out those yeast rolls from scratch, make that cornbread, peel those potatoes, strain and wash those green-beans, shuck that corn, cure that ham! If you aren’t willing to spend 100 hours in the kitchen cooking, then you deserve your crappy, overpriced Thanksgiving meal!
Posted on 11/25/24 at 2:33 pm to Tigahs24Seven
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58.09..? You have to be kidding..I have spent 700.00 buying food for 20 people in the last week...
This is the real reason holidays exist and its not negotiable.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 2:34 pm to Dire Wolf
I didn't realize there was a Democratic propaganda arm in farming.
No credibility.
quote:
American Farm Bureau Federation
No credibility.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 2:36 pm to gizmothepug
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Wages continued to grow faster following the COVID-19 pandemic, even as inflation cooled. Because average wages rose 4% from 2023 to 2024, it took 9% less work time for us to pay for this year’s Thanksgiving dinner.”
The gaslighting never ends. Orwell meant 1984 to be a warning, not a How-To.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 2:38 pm to Riverside
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If you aren’t willing to spend 100 hours in the kitchen cooking, then you deserve your crappy, overpriced Thanksgiving meal!
I tend to agree with the last part about paying extra to not put in the work but perhaps because I can cook a little faster than you.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 2:42 pm to wm72
How long does it take you to cook *from scratch* enough food to feed 10 people then? Because time has a real value to it.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 3:11 pm to Dire Wolf
58 bucks for a 10 person turkey dinner? What are they eating canned turkey and Kraft Mac and cheese?
Posted on 11/25/24 at 3:15 pm to Riverside
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How long does it take you to cook *from scratch* enough food to feed 10 people then? Because time has a real value to it.
I posted earlier in the thread that this Thanksgiving I'm going to make dinner with my mother, who's 83.
She loves the traditional Thanksgiving dinners from when she was young and then me and my brother were kids with the real homemade cornbread dressing and yeast rolls specifically.
This is the menu we're making:
Turkey
Homemade Dressing (homemade turkey broth, cornbread, eggs)
Homemade Cranberry Sauce with walnuts
Sweet potatoes (baked with garlic & rosemary
Brussel Sprouts (pan browned butter, onion)
Homemade Yeast Rolls
Garden Salad (Romaine, Tomato, Onion, Homemade Dijon-Balsamic dressing)
Banana Pudding
Sweet Tea
For me, the turkey is actually the pain in arse that takes a lot of steps. Perhaps because I don't cook it more than once every few years.
Everything else on that menu will take 20-30 each.
Not counting the turkey prep, I'd say about 3 1/2 hours. When I did it with her a couple of years ago we started around 10 taking our time and ate around 2 or 3.
The key is to not have a menu with 20 things but make the ones you do well
Posted on 11/25/24 at 3:16 pm to Gifman
Kamala is secretly controlling price gaging!!
Posted on 11/25/24 at 3:17 pm to Dire Wolf
You almost can't eat fast food for 5 for under $60 vs a feast for 10.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 3:38 pm to jdd48
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You almost can't eat fast food for 5 for under $60 vs a feast for 10.
I'm going to shut up now but that's kind of my point above. I could make a delicious, basic Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people for same price as I could take 5 of them to Five Guys for a burger, fries and a coke.
The main ingredients in all those traditional dishes are fairly cheap and turkey is very cheap.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 3:47 pm to wm72
bro, we get it. you can cook.
i can pick out parts for and build my own computer. that doesn’t negate the fact that computers and/or computer parts are just as expensive, if not more expensive than they were last year. and that’s the OP’s article intent, which is bullshite.
i can pick out parts for and build my own computer. that doesn’t negate the fact that computers and/or computer parts are just as expensive, if not more expensive than they were last year. and that’s the OP’s article intent, which is bullshite.
This post was edited on 11/25/24 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 11/25/24 at 3:58 pm to Klark Kent
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computer parts are just as expensive,
A lot of attitude for someone that didn't comprehend the point which is not surprising in the least: the "computer parts" are actually not that expensive but the computers still are.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 4:30 pm to wm72
false. individual computer parts are significantly cheaper to purchase on their own instead of as a complete product, a “computer”. So yes, I can build a computer for significantly less than what you can buy at Best Buy. And it’ll also outperform your Best Buy computer. So, the analogy works just fine.
again, we get it. you can cook. regardless, you’re abilities =/= lower grocery bill for the average american, this week or any other week.
again, we get it. you can cook. regardless, you’re abilities =/= lower grocery bill for the average american, this week or any other week.
This post was edited on 11/25/24 at 4:34 pm
Posted on 11/25/24 at 5:52 pm to TheJunction
Not at McDonalds Krystal Taco Bell not happening
Posted on 11/25/24 at 6:10 pm to Cracker
Walmart
Could feed 10 people with that..
-15lb turkey
-Using turkey bones to make stock, and neck to make a gravy.
-White bread, corn bread, stock, eggs, butter, onions, bell pepper to make a dressing.
-green beans, cream of mushroom, crunchy onions for casserole.
-mashed potatoes.
- Rolls.
- cranberry sauce.
Could feed 10 people with that..
-15lb turkey
-Using turkey bones to make stock, and neck to make a gravy.
-White bread, corn bread, stock, eggs, butter, onions, bell pepper to make a dressing.
-green beans, cream of mushroom, crunchy onions for casserole.
-mashed potatoes.
- Rolls.
- cranberry sauce.
This post was edited on 11/25/24 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 11/25/24 at 6:38 pm to wm72
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The main ingredients in all those traditional dishes are fairly cheap and turkey is very cheap.
For sure, most dishes are pretty cheap. Doing all the cooking takes time and oven space.
$58 is laughable unless you just want a ghetto thanksgiving
Dressing turkey, mac n cheese, green bean casserole, ect are fairly cheap dishes
Comparing to eating at McDonalds retard because fast food is a terrible wasn’t of money
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