Thanksgiving Dinner Not Unusually Expensive After All

[Jack]

More Americans have died from COVID this year than last year, Jack.

I posted a thread about it.

Did you break it down to the Trumptopians that were NOT vaccinated?

[NiftyNiblick]

The several pies from Mann's Orchard were fairly expensive but well worth it.

They make the best applie pie that I've been able to get since my maternal grandmother abandoned me when she was only 97 and I was a mere 47 year old baby.
Everybody seems to be in a hurry to get away from Nifty Niblick.
Don't know why? I'm obviously a mensch.

[Mr.Badguy]

Conservatives can't function unless they feel like their way of life is being threatened somehow. It's all doom and gloom except about the things that are actually killing them.

[Sailor]

Say what?

But the prices have increased so much!

Yeah, well, read on...

Thanksgiving dinner isn’t actually unusually expensive this year

"Yet zooming out beyond 2020 — an outlier year for sure — reveals that this year’s Thanksgiving prices are hardly disastrous. Again in real purchasing terms, HumanProgress.org finds that this year’s meal will be cheaper than it was in 2019 for the average person. And this year’s meal is much cheaper, in real terms, than it was in 2010, 2000, or even 1986.

This graph by HumanProgress.org shows quite clearly how this year’s prices are only a slight uptick in an otherwise heartening trend:"

See graph here

WOW! Looks like democrats got it wrong again. No surprise there:

https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsro...f-thanksgiving

Warren Calls for DOJ Investigation into Top Poultry Companies’ Anticompetitive Practices as Americans Face Record-High Turkey Prices Ahead of Thanksgiving
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