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

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November 26, 2024, 07:05 PM
kkina
NBC Tries To Gaslight Americans Into Believing That A 10-Person Thanksgiving Dinner Costs $58 This Year, & The Backlash Was Glorious
quote:
Originally posted by trapper189:
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.

Sounds about right. My list came out to $76, and I'm in Cali. AFBF's own estimate for western states is $93.



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November 26, 2024, 07:34 PM
scratchy
Butterballs are .98/lb at Walmart, 1.08 at King Soopers/Kroger right now but a 16 pound bird is not going to feed 10. And all the fixins alone will go well over $150. Hidden costs like veggies, milk, cheese, etc, Nice to see that NBC can smoke the good stuff.

I buy into bird day because this is the season I can buy birds to smoke in the summer Smile


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November 26, 2024, 07:36 PM
architect
quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
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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.
AKA "corporate greed," a phrase that should immediately raise suspicion as to the motivation of the issuer.
November 26, 2024, 07:55 PM
2000Z-71
Well I spent $72 for an apple and a key lime pie from the local baker for my contribution to this year's Thanksgiving dinner.




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November 26, 2024, 10:50 PM
whanson_wi
The daughter did the shopping this year. She admits to spending "about $70" to get fixin's for five adults. Almost all of it was at Aldi. It includes the pumpkin and evaporated milk, but no other pie ingredients; the rest is on hand, and her chickens provide more eggs than we can eat.

When she says, "about $70", it means she doesn't want to tell you. She always knows to the penny what she's spent on food. She knows I'll give her cash to cover it, so she low-balled the total and "lost" the receipts...


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November 26, 2024, 11:19 PM
old rugged cross
quote:
Originally posted by whanson_wi:
The daughter did the shopping this year. She admits to spending "about $70" to get fixin's for five adults. Almost all of it was at Aldi. It includes the pumpkin and evaporated milk, but no other pie ingredients; the rest is on hand, and her chickens provide more eggs than we can eat.

When she says, "about $70", it means she doesn't want to tell you. She always knows to the penny what she's spent on food. She knows I'll give her cash to cover it, so she low-balled the total and "lost" the receipts...



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Happy Thanksgiving all. Enjoy your blessings. We have been blessed, especially this Thanksgiving season!



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November 27, 2024, 07:24 AM
barndg00
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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


$3.75 for miscellaneous necessary ingredients (butter, salt, pepper, eggs) is way off in my opinion.
November 27, 2024, 08:21 AM
YooperSigs
The local Holiday Inn hosts a feast every year. I made reservations and was informed the cost was $30. In years past it has been... $20.


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November 27, 2024, 08:24 AM
Glynn863
We've been getting an email from Aldi that they have a TG family meal package for $47 + tax.

I'm not knocking Aldi at all, but that seems a little suspect. But, Europeans don't eat large portions like Americans do, so maybe that's how they came up with the price and menu.

BTW, the wife and i will be cooking our turkey breast for TG, which we did buy from Aldi. :-)
November 27, 2024, 08:43 AM
darthfuster
“You can stop doing this. The election is over.”

Quote from the comments section. It’s classic gaslighting.



You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
November 27, 2024, 10:10 AM
PASig
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Originally posted by barndg00:


$3.75 for miscellaneous necessary ingredients (butter, salt, pepper, eggs) is way off in my opinion.



Yep

My wife found butter last weekend “on sale” for $3 a pound

She tells me it’s like $5 a pound now for store brand around here and $7 for name brand normally

I remember when butter at Aldi was like $1.99 a pound 2018-2019


November 28, 2024, 08:55 AM
trapper189
I forgot, if you spent $150 at BJs you got a turkey for free. Buy stuff you normally need, laundry detergent, etc. and I’m now down to $36 for Thanksgiving Turkey dinner for 10. I’m of course not counting beverages, but I strongly suspect NBC wasn’t either.
November 28, 2024, 10:02 AM
StarTraveler
I'm a budget shopper (turkey at Kroger, $0.69/pound, sweet potatoes $0.44/pound, butter at Costco, etc). My wife and I are making (or already made) everything from scratch (cornbread dressing, 2 pies and crusts, yeast rolls, and cranberry sauce) so we're around $50 (including allowances for miscellaneous ingredients from stock on hand) for our relatively similar version of the basic Farm Bureau meal that kkina showed on page 1 of the thread.

Then we decided to do green bean casserole instead of basic green beans and that added $2 for more green beans, $1 for Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup on sale, and $3.99 for French's Fried Onions (on sale) plus deviled eggs ($4.00-damn bird flu!), and whipped cream (Kroger brand, on sale for $1 x 2) which brought us up to about $63 plus tax, which is still pretty close to the $58 estimate for more items.

However, if we'd gone with the store-bought prepared versions of everything instead of taking time to make things ourselves, it would be a lot easier but would run $70 to $80 and wouldn't taste as good.


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