re: Thanksgiving dinner is historically affordable this year

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Thanksgiving Day meal is not a normal sized meal, not sure why you're trying to die on this hill.

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You are right....again, most mean need somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500 calories spread out over 3 meals so about what, 833.3 calories per meal? So this thanksgiving spread would be more than double that.

I am not dying on any hill I am merely pointing out that is entirely possible to feed 10 people what would widely be described as a traditional thanksgiving dinner for less than $5 a person despite many claiming it to be impossible. most of whom suffer from the delusion that thanksgiving dinner cost about $75 in 2019 and about $300 today because they want to believe that despite the facts which are painfully obvious.

I have no idea what the same meal would have cost in 2019....I suspect it'd been about 5-10% less than it is today, but I do not know that for a fact. What I do know for a fact is that OP was about it costing less today and people taking umbrage with that and claiming you could not feed 10 people thanksgiving dinner for less than $6 a head while the data says you can do it for less than $5. It may not be what you want for thanksgiving dinner but its far fricking more than you need at nearly 70% of the recommended calories for a man in a day. It may not be tasty....the turkey would be fine, the pie and roll probably OK and everything else would, indeed, SUCK,,,,but its still under $5 a head. It may no be what your mama served...it isn't what mine would have served although its basically the same but would have been made from scratch instead of boxes and we would have had dressing instead of stuffing because we are not cretins. Its entirely possible. WHy anyone denies it is beyond me,. they can take a look and see for themselves are just go on pretending that they are the victims of some propaganda campaign or personal attack on their finances....but the truth is there in plain sight, you can indeed feed 10 people a traditional thanksgiving dinner for less than $5 a person.

Everyone is denying it bc that's not what anyone does. You don't invite 10 people over on the holiday just to serve them the bare minimum amount of shittiest low quality food possible. Then when they complain, you go into a hysterical rant about how many calories are on their plate.

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The bottom line is the spread you provided is not anywhere close to an average Thanksgiving Day meal. You just be the same idiot that thought this tweet was a good idea



So sure, you're technically right. You can provide an absolutely shitty meal for the cost claimed in this article. But that's not what the majority of people will be paying to make their meal on Thursday.

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So what is the "majority" of people spending? $10 a head? $20? $30? They are doing this and simultaneously bitching about spending money when they could cut it waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy down.

At Publix you can feed 8 for $70 or $8.75 a person. Thats them doing all the work and packaging it up so you can take it home. I see people in Publix buying Publix deli meals....they are by all accounts pretty tasty.

Maybe Honeybaked Ham - $199 for a meal to feed 20 people, or $10 a piece. Again, them doing all the work.

I am really beginning to wonder just how the frick much some of yall would spend to feed 10 people. Many of you have mentioned $300. You can feed 10 people at some truly posh restaurants in Atlanta for around $60 a head and for $75 they will probably blow you after dinner.

We will have about 15 people at our house for Thanksgiving and none of them will bring anything. I suspect we have probably spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $500. We will have enough food to feed 3 times that many people including enough wine and beer to put the 8 or so adults in the crowd into a coma. That said it would be entirely possible that we coould have fed them for around $8 or $9 each and it would have been pretty special. We won't because my wife LOVES the holidays and loves feeding everyone....but it is entirely possible that we could spend about $4.50 a person and feed them what would be universally called a thanksgiving dinner....

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Everyone is denying it bc that's not what anyone does. You don't invite 10 people over on the holiday just to serve them the bare minimum amount of shittiest low quality food possible. Then when they complain, you go into a hysterical rant about how many calories are on their plate.

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I am here to tell anyone who will listen there are a fricking bunch of Americans who would like to be in a position to prepare the meal described for their family and friends Thursday. Some of y'all really need to reflect on what you should be thankful for...a lot of Americans will not have a meal as described....it will be far less impressive if it exists at all. Kids and old folks, folks with mental and physical health conditions that are not their fault, lots of Americans would see that meal as fricking blessing while most of us here consider it shite. That is the truly sad aspect of this thread.

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You eating the bones and carcass too?

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No, according to Butterball about 20-30% loss in pre-cooked and post cooked weight for their whole frozen turkeys.

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So what is the "majority" of people spending?

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I'm probably spending more on just the oil to fry the turkey than your whole meal costs.

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I'm probably spending more on just the oil to fry the turkey than your whole meal costs.

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No shite, peanut oil is high and always has been. It is also a disgusting way to cook a turkey, in my opinion. I will be frying one though, this year and every year, because my BIL insists on it and we are pretty close friends so he is worth it....but its disgusting.

I wish to hell I could convince my wife to feed everyone for less than $5. She will have more pasta cooked and more olives out than that. I love Italian women but they LOVE to make certain everyone is well fed and it ain't cheap....

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I am here to tell anyone who will listen there are a fricking bunch of Americans who would like to be in a position to prepare the meal described for their family and friends Thursday. Some of y'all really need to reflect on what you should be thankful for...a lot of Americans will not have a meal as described....it will be far less impressive if it exists at all. Kids and old folks, folks with mental and physical health conditions that are not their fault, lots of Americans would see that meal as fricking blessing while most of us here consider it shite. That is the truly sad aspect of this thread

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Good Lord

You've gone from unhinged rage to a Salvation Army commercial.

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“If your dollar had the same overall purchasing power as a consumer in 1984 … this would be the least expensive Thanksgiving meal in the 39-year history of the AFBF Thanksgiving survey, other than the outlier of 2020,” the authors wrote.

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Its a shite take to simply state it is indeed possible to cook a thanksgiving dinner for less than what, $790 a head????

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Be more dramatic.

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If YOUR thanksgiving dinner costs more than $5 a person that is a decision YOU made. You are not a victim of anything other than your own desire to feed your friends and family very well on a holiday. Own it. Don't pretend like someone is forcing you to spend more. Stop being a victim of unfounded personal assaults...you will be happier for the experience.

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I honestly don't even get what you're trying to do in this thread.