Speaking for turkeys generally, it appears our flock is safe provided everyone agrees with you . . . which of course we hope they do. Being first slaughtered and then roasted and consumed by humans is not a preferred outcome for turkeys.
Is your closest station at a marina? Oh, never mind, youâre in CA. Maybe someone in NY or HI can come close, though.
Did you really mean to say that? 
Turkeyâs are smart birds, and when cooked (roasted, smoked, or fried) properly are delicious. They are so good that millions of Americans have eaten them for days after Thanksgiving - reheated, sliced on sandwiches, and in salads.
OTOH, if youâre not in the 99.9999% of the world that is overheated from global warming/cooling/inflation, then a big bowl of deer chili is a great alternative.
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Um⌠I beg to differ.
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I finally got my family to acknowledge what we have always known and rarely said out loud â nobody actually wants to eat turkey!
Whatâs wrong with turkey?
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A very worthwhile article this morning from Bloomberg regarding inflation. The article focuses on the most recent Jackson Hole get together and, in particular, on Chairman Powellâs assertions there. That conference was in August. The article highlights how things have gone south since then vis a vis Powellâs five inflation yardsticks, going through them in detail one by one:
Powellâs Five Inflation Benchmarks Are Starting to Flash Amber
The article concludes with an interesting, quite possibly concerning, comment from former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
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I 100% understand that. But weâre not talking about the economic theory behind raising prices. This is a thread about ongoing inflation in a country that has seen nearly empty shelves in supermarkets consistently for the past few months. The conditions are already here. The prices have already started going up. The article is describing what is ALREADY happening. It seems silly to me to claim they canât do what they (and everyone else) have already been doing.
This is a thread about ongoing inflation in a country that has seen nearly empty shelves in supermarkets consistently for the past few months. The conditions are already here. The prices have already started going up. The article is describing what is ALREADY happening. It seems silly to me to claim they canât do what they (and everyone else) have already been doing.
Maybe this is very regional in nature, but being fairly close to chicken and pork producers, I have seen no shortage, whatsoever, of raw chicken and pork anytime I have been to the grocery store in the past 2 years up through today.
Instead, what I have seen is a repeated need for markdowns to move highly perishable product.
Regions further from the production, very well could be suffering, I suppose.
But at my grocery store, final prices on chicken and pork havenât been cheaper in recent memory.
(this is both âprocessedâ raw âpartsâ and whole chickens, as well as pretty much all cuts of raw pork including whole loins â i.e. everything but precooked hams)
That said â maybe wholesalers end up being the ones put over the barrel if producers demand a price increase.
I guess I would be interested to see some analysis on who actually holds the cards when it comes to pricing for highly perishable items like raw meat, and how quickly producers can shift their raw output to âfinished productâ with longer shelf life that they can hold back to avoid oversupply.
Biden energy policy - âDonât you dare raise gas prices or else.â
Heâs old enough to remember how well price controls worked in the 70s. Come on, man! You want to wait in those lines?
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Consider yourself fortunate.
I donât live in a city far away from farms. There is a tyson hatchery 31 miles from my house. And I am surrounded by supermarkets (so no shortage of competition). Yet the raw meat selection/stock has noticeably gone down, and the regular and sale prices have gone up ~20% across the board, with good sales happening less and less often. And the instances of popular cuts being completely out of stock has happened more in the past few months than the rest of my grocery buying life combined.
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Someone can have our turkey and chicken, beef, fish, etc. We recently went vegetarian and have no need for it. While it is a challenge at times, it hasnât been all that bad. Thanksgiving with my conservative family is going to be fun, but it always an interesting get together with a lot of judgement and differing opinions on a lot of topics.
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And I thought that refilling at $3.17/gal yesterday was getting very expensive since I had managed to always refill below $3 until now. Glad Iâm only refilling once a month but at $5/gal, itâd really suck.
Here in Silicon Valley California the going rate is about $4.90 a gallon. It does not affect me since I do not drive much but there are many people who commute here from the central valley and they must be hit hard.
And, of course, they have to live in the central valley because of the insane price of housing in the Frisco bay area.
3.09 here 
âFor those making $40,000 to $90,000, financial cushions will be drained in the next two to three months, according Bloomberg Economics.â
That sounds totally fair at $40k but at $90k household income, there should be enough budget for a small inflationary bump in your food budge, no? If not, then youâre probably spending too much elsewhere IMO. Either way, that sounds alarmist to me when the median HHI was $67k in 2020, to claim that these $90k/yr households suddenly have no other option but to go to the Salvation Army.
Yes they may have to scale down the usual Christmas overspending but I donât think itâs a bad thing in itself. A bit of curbing on the whole commercialism of it, and maybe a bit more focus on family/friends and what the holiday is actually about would not hurt IMO.
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So true⌠leftovers canât be beat. But donât keep it going for more than a couple days.
Last year my son brought over a wild turkey that he shot while he was out walking his dog. Bird was not so fat and plump like âstore boughtâ. Different but pretty decent and cheaper by far. 
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âI just need Congress to fill my money hose, and then Iâm going to fire it at everything!â Biden explained, prepping his hose. âIf you see a problem, you just fire the money hose at itâthatâs been my philosophy for my 87 years in Congress. Has that philosophy ever failed me? I donât know; Iâve been too busy firing a giant money hose to pay attention.â
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Itâs drier and tougher than other meats. The best turkey Iâve had doesnât even come close to the best of other meats Iâve had. People love steak, pork, chicken⌠nobody loves turkey.
Itâs drier and tougher than other meats. The best turkey Iâve had doesnât even come close to the best of other meats Iâve had. People love steak, pork, chicken⌠nobody loves turkey.
I guess more people probably donât know how to cook turkey properly since they only do it a couple times a year.
But done right, it can be just as good as any comparably priced alternatives.
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Again, I disagree. The biggest issue people have with turkey is that it isnt single-serve friendly - you spend 4 hours cooking enough for a dozen people, or you dont have it at allâŚ
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