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Chippopotanuse t1_ixltd0g wrote

> The Boston metro area, which includes Cambridge and Newton, tops the charts at $170 for Thanksgiving dinner. The meal includes a 10-pound turkey, several sides that include mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, peas and corn, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. Drinks include orange juice, cola, and coffee…

What? Who the hell wants to eat peas and orange juice on Thanksgiving? Have I been doing it wrong all these years?

I live in one of the most expensive Boston burbs.

Here’s our dinner for 10:

  • Got a 20lb Turkey at Wegmans for 0.49 a lb. ($10)

  • three cans of cranberry sauce. ($6)

  • bag of potatoes ($4)

  • two boxes of stuffing ($5)

  • gravy made from whatever the hell drops off the bird with some flour (basically free)

  • Turkey bag and disposable pan ($5)

  • my wife’s parents got a pie from a farm stand ($17).

$47 for 10 people. Done. (And most of that is spent on a bougie rhubarb blackberry pie.)

The old standard T-day dinner is still super affordable in my book.

If you want your a meal fancier than that, if you want a few bottles of $20+ wine, if you want all sorts of bullshit sides…that’s cool. But don’t blame it on Thanksgiving meals being “expensive”.

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Honclfibr t1_ixlz8j7 wrote

Y'all need veggus.

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twowrist t1_ixmdjry wrote

I was going to say something like that, but then I realized it still wouldn’t bring the cost up to the range given in the Yahoo or Moneygeek articles.

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Yak_Rodeo t1_ixmap3d wrote

you have one turkey and two sides for 10 people?

you are very much an outlier

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ooolooi t1_ixmycal wrote

This mf eating unseasoned turkey filled with no-additions box stuffing

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Chippopotanuse t1_ixnegr2 wrote

I’m sorry - I didn’t know I had to add the nickel for the spices that we all have in our cupboard. But feel free to add that if you’d like.

And as for “no-additions” box stuffing?

You’re goddamn right. Get off your high horse and try some. The water is fine in that end of the pool.

It’s not that I don’t like fancy stuffing or can’t afford it…it’s just that I also am fine with the cheap stuff. Same goes for my taste in wine and beer. Two buck chuck and PBR have their place as well.

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donkadunny t1_ixm0xg3 wrote

Lots of little things off in your anecdotal calculation (you left two groups of multiple products off your list), but most importantly, no one said it was unaffordable. Just that the average prices they used in their methodology (which they spell out) make it the most expensive out of the major US cities.

As someone who lives in the metro area that isn’t a suburb, my figure looks a lot more like theirs and nothing like yours.

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