NBC Tries To Gaslight Americans Into Believing That A 10-Person Thanksgiving Dinner Costs $58 This Year, & The Backlash Was Glorious

The backlash was swift and it was fierce… let’s bask in the glory

I saw that this AM walking through the Kitchen and thought what the hell are they smoking!

A good quality big turkey alone is 58 bucks or more!

Oh, they ain't talking about a 'good' turkey.

One of the better replies in that link was "58 bucks? Only if you're planning to give everybody a Lunchable and a beer."

$58 per person would probably be closer

NBC shouldn't be a jive ass turkey so close to Thanksgiving.

The info comes from the American Farm Bureau Federation which provides an annual cost for Thanksgiving dinner. I e-shopped the local Safeway for similar ingredients and arrived at a total cost of about $76, which is not out of line if you compensate for regional differences (the AFBF's own estimate for western states is $93).

American Farm Bureau Federation


Thanksgiving cost by kpkina, on Flickr

10 Swanson frozen turkey TV dinners maybe. WIth no sweet tea.

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Originally posted by kkina:
The info comes from the American Farm Bureau Federation which provides an annual cost for Thanksgiving dinner. I e-shopped the local Safeway for similar ingredients and arrived at a total cost of about $76, which is not out of line if you compensate for regional differences (the AFBF's own estimate for western states is $93).

American Farm Bureau Federation


Thanksgiving cost by kpkina, on Flickr

I'm sorry but what?

1 pound of peas for 10 people?

14 oz of stuffing for 10 people?

These numbers are WAY off

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Originally posted by PASig:

1 pound of peas for 10 people?

For real. Peas are nasty, 1 pound would feed an infinite number of people.

I do the grocery shopping in my house. I'm at least in for $140 for four adults and two kids. That will generate a lot of leftovers, but still . . .

I question the quantities as well. Maybe it assumes that half the diners are children? Alternatively, the given quantities may assume no leftovers (when was the last time that happened)?

I've noticed it is easy to over-estimate how much people actually eat in a single meal, even Thanksgiving. At every Chinese family style dinner I've been to, there's always a tendency to order vast amounts of food, half of which end up in take-home cartons.

Turkeys are 99¢ a pound down here, even the Butterballs. Now the little tiny jar of William-Sonoma rub my wife bought was $16.95.

Looking at the AFB list above:
1. 1lb of turkey per person would be a 10lb bird or $10 down here.
2. 14 ounces of stuffing is probably OK. When you add the water, butter and whatever. A 6oz box of Stove Top says it’s 6 servings.
3. Where’s the potatoes for the mashed potatoes?
4. Where’s the butter? 4lbs is like $15 at Sam’s Club.

$60 seems about right. You guys with your heirloom, heritage, boutique, free range fancy turkeys are missing the point. Most people are buying the 99¢ per pound turkeys.

The Turkey is a small part of the overall meal for us.

A typical menu for Thanksgiving for my Italian wife consists of:

Carrot soup
Homemade pasta (with sauce)
Salad
the turkey (If I fry it, add another $50+ for the oil)
Sausage stuffing (dressing, actually)
Oyster stuffing (again, dressing)
Cranberries
Butternut squash
Green beans
Roasted potatoes
Bread
Adult beverages
Kid's beverages
Apple pie
Cherry pie.

I'm sure there's something else I'm forgetting.

And NONE of it is from a box, so figure in all kinds of other ingredient expenses.

Try making all that for $58 ...

Last few weeks My walmart had frozen turkey Jennie-0 brand .48c a pound. Butterball 1.07.

if you were on an airtight budget and absolutely had to feed 10 people. Discount grocery store could likely get there for $58. Hope you like Walmart rolls and not kings Hawaiian. And off brand cranberry sauce not ocean spray. And you’re not doing this at publix or other upmarket grocery store.

Gallon of Milk just went went from 2.72 to 3.04 a few weeks ago. That’s a 11.7% jump overnight.

I could do it for that amount of money, easily. But it would be 100% dependent on grabbing a couple of Costco birds for $5 a pop and Costco in general. Could easily be done with dessert too, but that would be a Costco Pumpkin pie.

If turkey is a requirement, hell no. But I don’t buy into Bird day anyway, never have. I usually make some spaghetti or chicken Parmesan with grilled chicken.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
I could do it for that amount of money, easily. But it would be 100% dependent on grabbing a couple of Costco birds for $5 a pop and Costco in general. Could easily be done with dessert too, but that would be a Costco Pumpkin pie.

If turkey is a requirement, hell no. But I don’t buy into Bird day anyway, never have. I usually make some spaghetti or chicken Parmesan with grilled chicken.

I'm not coming to your place for the $58 dinner - you have no allowance for seconds or refills.

Reminds me of:
White House Boasts Cookouts Are 16 Cents Cheaper This Year and the Internet Isn't Impressed

6.68 - 32 pack King’s Hawaiian rolls
9.98 - 6 14oz cans Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce
8.68 - 3 16oz boxes Pepperidge Farms stuffing
5.98 - 10lbs yellow potatoes
12.00 - 12lb turkey
14.38 - 4lbs butter
11.96 - 2 12” pumpkin pies.

That’s $70 and knocking it down to 2 cans of cranberry sauce, 3lbs of potatoes, 2lbs butter, and 1 box of stuffing it’s $46. Sam’s Club.

That’s 58$ after EBT is charged. Makes perfect sense to me!

Or this is a 3rd world country survey where thanksgiving is comprised of 2# of chicken, 5# of rice, some yucca, and plantains.

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NBC Tries To Gaslight Americans ...

A tactic used by (redundancy alert) lying leftists. They downplay and diminish the obvious inflation and mock you as a crackpot, or alternatively blame the food manufacturers like "Big Egg" when called out on it.