Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Expect to pay at least 14% more for this year’s Thanksgiving festivities, according to the American Farm Bureau. The bureau estimates that a feast for ten will cost $53.31 this year, and I would personally like to know what grocery store has such low prices; the estimate seems drastically low. The US Department of Agriculture noted that wholesale prices of 8-16 lb frozen turkeys are up 21% from November 2020. Pumpkin prices have risen 5% due to droughts in California and heavy rains leading to fungal infestations in Illinois.
Green beans, a typically cheap staple, advanced 4% YoY, while cranberry sauce prices increased 2.5%. Milk, eggs, potatoes, and many other Thanksgiving staples have all increased in price. Butterball President and CEO Jay Jandrain said that turkey prices will remain elevated into 2022 due to increased feed, labor, and transportation costs. However, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he is confident Americans will still foot the higher bill to maintain the annual tradition.
If you ever wanted proof of how effective the Federal Reserve has been at keeping prices stable, just compare these menus to the prices today. Lamposts aren’t good enough for Powell, Yellen and Bernanke.
Thanksgiving Menus from the past Via Jesse
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“Lamposts aren’t good enough for Powell, Yellen and Bernanke.” I agree, they should be injected with covid vaccine until they die. Funny how they are all Jews.
Every hour on the hour.
Last time I checked it was Congress that has borrowed $25 trillion. Wonder if that has had anything to do with inflation? Nah, couldn’t be that.
https://notthebee.com/article/i-hope-yall-enjoyed-your-16-cents-of-savings-on-july-4th-because-this-thanksgiving-will-be-the-most-expensive-one-ever
Reading through those menus made me hungry and I just had breakfast.
Made me hungry too. That was interesting reading through them.
Butterball turkey. 87 cents a pound at Aldi. If you go to a store that has an olive bar, you’re pretty much saying “I’ll pay whatever you feel like charging”.
I love olive bars.
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all. Looking forward to all the lively conversation with my family. Hopefully I still have a family by Friday.
Just tell ’em in the morning you’ve converted to Scientology. Allow them to show you the error of your ways by noon. Thank them profusely for helping you.
Enjoy the remainder of the day.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving.
Photo of my brothers! They are so smart!
My family!
^^ Not the real Abby! Llpoh being stupid, as usual.
If Llpoh wasn’t such an ass he would have posted this real photo of my family:
Does anyone here know why the Hoi Polluted are so obsessed with bloodlines of those who sailed here on the Mayflower? Why are people held in such high esteem in the extreme upper class if they are direct descendants? It is not because they were Christians who sailed on that ship. A great amount of politicians and A-list actors have bloodlines back to the Mayflower passengers, getting a clue?
I don’t celebrate the Thanksgiving fantasy story. I am THANKFUL every day, you don’t need a made up sheep holiday to be thankful. There is nothing Christian about the real pilgrim story.
Saw one female in Greenville,SC with a round Biden/Harris sticker over her gas tank outlet.Old broad was either totally hard core or exceptionally stoooopid.
Almost certain, a racially motivated terrorist attack
https://www.theblaze.com/news/82-year-old-motorist-out-to-pick-up-a-turkey-ahead-of-thanksgiving-gets-surrounded-severely-beaten-by-atv-gang-numbering-between-30-and-40-riders
Happy REALIZATION Day.
I really enjoyed reading through the old menus – I could not help noticing that game meat was on the table far more often in those days. It made me glad I am getting back into archery, and hope to see some venison, boar or duck on my table next year.
Food for a holiday meal has changed so much, it seems. Somewhere along the march of time, the thanksgiving table has been made into a commercial marketing tool by my local grocers. The turkey seems almost like an afterthought compared the spread of instant carbohydrates and corn-syrup sugar side dishes and desserts. I stubbornly kept a thanksgiving table of clean, whole food, served on real plates for over 3 decades, despite pressure from my in-laws, who showed up with quiktrip big gulps of pepsi-cola and loudly asked why I made so much work for myself, when paper plates were available. I cherished the family recipes and old cookbooks from previous eras, but sadly met resistance, because family opinion decreed that the acceptable holiday feast was to be turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie ONLY. God forbid I should offer some of nature’s bounty, like a pecan pie, my uncle’s generous gift of king salmon from his home in Alaska, or even a simple plate of walnuts, fresh fruit and cheese…. How well trained the American palate has become by the marketing executives.
Please try to be forgiving of my rant, I always get hung up on the quality of food as well as the cost. I try to spend my food dollar wisely, and that means getting good nutrition at a price I can tolerate. I am grateful that I live in a country that can offer so much, should you choose to look for it. God bless TBP for bringing so many different points of view to our attention.
P.s. I had to throw in Samuel Clemens’ list of American food
It has now been many months, at the present writing, since I have had a nourishing meal, but I shall soon have one — a modest, private affair, all to myself. I have selected a few dishes, and made out a little bill of fare, which will go home in the steamer that precedes me, and be hot when I arrive — as follows:
Radishes. Baked apples, with cream Fried oysters; stewed oysters. Frogs. American coffee, with real cream. American butter. Fried chicken, Southern style. Porter-house steak. Saratoga potatoes. Broiled chicken, American style. Hot biscuits, Southern style. Hot wheat-bread, Southern style. Hot buckwheat cakes. American toast. Clear maple syrup. Virginia bacon, broiled. Blue points, on the half shell. Cherry-stone clams. San Francisco mussels, steamed. Oyster soup. Clam Soup. Philadelphia Terapin soup. Oysters roasted in shell-Northern style. Soft-shell crabs. Connecticut shad. Baltimore perch. Brook trout, from Sierra Nevadas. Lake trout, from Tahoe. Sheep-head and croakers, from New Orleans. Black bass from the Mississippi. American roast beef. Roast turkey, Thanksgiving style. Cranberry sauce. Celery. Roast wild turkey. Woodcock. Canvas-back-duck, from Baltimore. Prairie liens, from Illinois. Missouri partridges, broiled. ‘Possum. Coon. Boston bacon and beans. Bacon and greens, Southern style. Hominy. Boiled onions. Turnips. Pumpkin. Squash. Asparagus. Butter beans. Sweet potatoes. Lettuce. Succotash. String beans. Mashed potatoes. Catsup. Boiled potatoes, in their skins. New potatoes, minus the skins. Early rose potatoes, roasted in the ashes, Southern style, served hot. Sliced tomatoes, with sugar or vinegar. Stewed tomatoes. Green corn, cut from the ear and served with butter and pepper. Green corn, on the ear. Hot corn-pone, with chitlings, Southern style. Hot hoe-cake, Southern style. Hot egg-bread, Southern style. Hot light-bread, Southern style. Buttermilk. Iced sweet milk. Apple dumplings, with real cream. Apple pie. Apple fritters. Apple puffs, Southern style. Peach cobbler, Southern style Peach pie. American mince pie. Pumpkin pie. Squash pie. All sorts of American pastry. Fresh American fruits of all sorts, including strawberries which are not to be doled out as if they were jewelry, but in a more liberal way. Ice-water—not prepared in the ineffectual goblet, but in the sincere and capable refrigerator.