The Soviet-like food lines have begun.

[Bleacher Creature]

And by "begun," I mean they are a figment of the RW media's fervent imagination.

Link to tweet

[wcmagumba]

1. I bought a turkey Sat at the single small local grocery, they had plenty...

prices were higher than previous years...

[COL Mustard]

23. I Bought A Turkey This Weekend Too

Have no idea if it was more expensive, since we typically don't have turkey (but do chicken or prime rib, or maybe lobsters instead). But there were plenty in the store, and even some in the poultry case!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

[Andy823]

2. I went shopping today

No shortage of turkey, or any other meat. Prices were still up, but I did see that gas prices at one station were down about 10 cents from last week, and Oil prices have lost around $10.00 a barrel since Biden said he would investigate any wrong doing by oil companies.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Plenty of turkeys and canned/frozen vegetables on sale at ShopRite.

There is no shortage.

[Amishman]

14. Realtor in our area gave away 1000 free turkeys

You just had to drive up, he shook your hand, and handed you a 12-14 pound turkey. No strings, tricks, information to fill out, or anything.

[COL Mustard]

24. At Least He Didn't Drop Them From A Helicopter!!

[ms liberty]

40. Oh, the humanity!

[Botany]

4. The Christmas Tree Shortage is massive in Columbus, OH

[KentuckyWoman]

11. The war on Christmas will be epic this year.

One of those eeeelegal Haitians we let loose to roam America will surely get their hands on one of those trees and the baby Jesus won't be able to be born.

Or ... something....

[Botany]

27. This garden store/nursery has even more this year .... old picture.

Want to buy a nice tree @ a good price? (I like Fraser Fir) Wait until you have less then 2 weeks to go until Christmas
the same for poinsettias, and greens too (I like Port Orford and Incense Cedar for cut greens and white pine for roping).

[StClone]

46. Radio station went Christmas music 24/7

They might as well be playing Li Cunxu's version of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as I sharpen my bayonet, stock my bunker, and coordinate with my anti-Xmas possee. We haven't figured out if the assault will be on Walmart, Target, Salvation Army Ringers...wait can someone divulge what I am supposed to attack first or hardest? I am new at this but as a furtive anti-Xmas warrior I want to project all the fear a corpulent, old, Liberal codger can muster.

[spooky3]

45. Those are beautiful! Nt

[Throckmorton]

52. I just dust off the big green toilet brush,

Easier, and no pine needles. Have not had a formerly live tree for going on 40 years. My tree is real, it just wasn't ever alive.

Did have a root ball tree on year, round these parts you had best have the hole to plant it in finished by Harvest Festival day, or you will need a jackhammer to dig it.

[unc70]

5. Turkeys on sale at HT for $0.29 per pound

That price is with the Harris-Teeter loyalty card only. Otherwise, $0.99
Limit one per customer.

[Norbert]

10. Miejers had them for 33 cents/lb for the store brand turkey

They may have ran out of them at some point but there were plenty of Butterball and other turkeys. I am beginning to think someone miscalculated the turkey shortage.

[FSogol]

17. 39 cents a pound at Wegmans. n/t

[Siwsan]

29. I was at Meijer, today

No more .33 cent/lb turkeys but still a good supply of the others. I think it said .89/lb.

[Norbert]

35. They were on sale until Sunday.

[Siwsan]

39. Ah.

I remember going to Meijer 2 years ago, during the sale, and all of the .33 ones were gone. They told us a food bank came in and cleaned them out. So, I wasn't even anticipating seeing any at that price, today.

Fortunately we had already purchased a bird. I was hoping to find a small one to put in the freezer.

[onenote]

18. I think to get the HT deal you also have to spend $40 on other items

Not that it should be hard to do that if you're shopping for a T-Giving dinner.

[unc70]

19. No restrictions here on the deal

HT often has things like $10 off on purchase over $40

[onenote]

22. Must vary by region. Here in Northern Virginia, you have to spend $40

The print on the ad is kinda small, but if you enlarge it, it states the $40 restriction.

[COL Mustard]

25. I'm Also In NOVA

I can't walk by Giant for less than $40!!!

[onenote]

28. Truth.

A new HT opened near us and we've been getting mailers with coupons offering $10 if we spend $30 -- which doesn't take any effort at all. Then they upped it to $50 to get $10 off. Still no problem.

[Dirty Socialist]

6. I shop at Kroger

Due to gross mismanagement, they ALWAYS have long lines at night. Beeleeve it, Tovarich!

[Lovie777]

7. Why ya think the Meat Facilities vaccinated almost 100% of their employees . ...

[ZonkerHarris]

8. Plenty of turkeys at the Ralphs and Vons supermarkets in Ventura County CA too.

I had to go through a bunch to find the smallest one for the three of us

[elias7]

9. Republicans Liars

Pure and simple, shameless, because the lies are effective and they’re never held accountable. Justified as “it’s only business”, aka walking through life without any moral responsibility

[NightWatcher]

12. Because Soros paid the migrant caravans to block the roads with their Critical Race Theory

[TexasTowelie]

13. Regrettably, I must admit that I ran into a turkey shortage at my grocery store.

The Hungry Man Turkey TV dinners (the one with the cranberry crumble) were sold out on Friday when I went shopping. I had to settle on the Banquest turkey dinner instead.

Is that Brandon's fault?

[dchill]

15. To get to the food lines, make a right at the death panels.

[Ohioboy]

34. LOL

[live love laugh]

16. Turkeys are plentiful and we're cheap as recently as last week.

My Jennie-O bird cost less than $7.

[jmbar2]

21. The other trope - cost of Thanksgiving dinner SKYROCKETING!

Farm Bureau's 36th annual survey indicates the average cost of this year's classic Thanksgiving feast for 10 is $53.31 or less than $6.00/person.

You can't buy a burger for that. And in most cases, everyone gets leftovers the next day.

https://www.fb.org/newsroom/farm-bureau-survey-shows-thanksgiving-dinner-cost-up-14

[DFW]

26. It depends on where you are

Here in Germany, the cost of chartering a plane to Massachusetts just to pick up cranberries is getting REALLY expensive with the rise in jet fuel costs.

On the other hand, with all our friends over in Holland getting Covid-19, we look like we will have a few kilos of turkey meat left over.

[jmbar2]

32. I am envious living in another country.

I lived in Tokyo teaching English for a few years in the '80s. A bunch of the English teachers decided to do a full Thanksgiving dinner, which was quite a feat. No one had an oven, so someone had a local shop WELD a homemade oven from a barrel.

The turkey was purchased from the local US military base, hours away, and brought back on the train. Canned Pumpkin filling, cranberries, dressing mix, etc were shipped from the US by family members.

Then we had to tag team all day, taking turns making the one hour train ride, in between classes, to keep an eye on the turkey until 10pm when everyone got off work. We arrived at the location at 11pm, and ate at midnite. One of my best Thanksgivings EVER.

[DFW]

48. Finding a turkey around here used to be pretty exotic

But for the last 25 years or so, we have had little trouble locating turkey farms here. It's no longer the exotic food it used to be. If you ask WAY in advance, you can even find fruit/vegetable stores that import cranberries fresh from Massachusetts, but they are still considered very exotic here. My wife got some American friends to teach her how to broil a turkey and make cranberry sauce, and she is now as good at it as any of the friendly natives back home. We even thought to bring stuffing mix the last time we were in the States (Pepperidge Farm isn't the only one who remembahs).

[jmbar2]

50. Something about having to really work at it makes all the more special.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving day!

[DFW]

54. Thanks, we'll try!

We always do it on Friday, since Thursday is not a holiday here, and some of us (like me, for example!) still work for a living.

[IronLionZion]

30. Meat processors wanted an excuse to jack up prices

without raising wages or benefits to hire more workers.

We looked into getting 2 chickens or a ham or something but ended up getting a decent enough turkey from Costco.

After seeing the tremendous amount of turkeys available at Publix and Costco in Florida, the shortage is about as real as Trump's wall or the caravan invading the US or Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.

[Tommymac]

31. Aldi's and Shop N Save in Pittsburgh area have plenty.

May be a little more expensive then last year. Aldi's has Butterball (large) Turkeys for $ 0.84 lb.

Shop N Save was from 1.19 to 1.99, but had smaller birds too.

Anecdotal but there it is. All stores we have been in so far have had full cases of birds.

[George II]

43. Our supermarket was loaded, price down to 99 cents / pound.

[Ohioboy]

33. I know...

My mom, the FOX zombie, was amazed that her store's shelves were full. It still won't make her realize she being lied to by right wing media.

[Ohioboy]

36. Now, will they give Joe credit for not having a turkey shortage?

I'm pretty sure that will be a big "no".

[Dave in VA]

37. Food Lion in Virginia

has them for $0.35 per pound with a $35.00 purchase. There were plenty to choose from.

[Tommy Carcetti]

38. **"Song of the Volga Boatman" plays over background PA**

[DFW]

49. Here's what it's really supposed to sound like

Ещё разик, ещё раз !

And then, when the somber mood is over......"little apple:"

[recovering_democrat]

41. Florida version

starting last week, news all talking about specials in grocery stores, and potential shortages of some usual items. I am in Sarasota area of Florida. Publix and most every other store had super sales of turkeys, from 49 c/ and 29 c/ pounds, good prices throughout the stores for all traditional Thanksgiving items. Every other day the turkey meat section was out, with notice would be refilled "tomorrow". I didn't go back a lot so all I know in conversation with others, they were re-filled about every other day, and emptied accordingly. No record of shortages anywhere. This whole part of the country seems to be in conflict about what is awful, dangerous, scary, good and bad about most everything. Confusing for the most part. Enjoy your holiday dinner and the rest of the season.

[George II]

42. That's about what it looked like in Connecticut this weekend, too.

[Aviation Pro]

44. Costco is fully stocked

....

[Historic NY]

47. My store was packed....

I end up with a breast since Ill have to freeze it. I will be getting on a plane in 2 weeks carrying it.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

51. One thanksgiving we got a turduckin.

A turduckin is turkey with a duck breast inside and the duck had a chicken breast inside He got it from work.

We put sausage apple raisin stuffing in the chicken part of the turducken rolled the chicken breast back up again and put it back in the duck.

It was insane delicious.

We had a small turkey I was given for free,we put crab stuffing in that one.
I cooked that a day before we cooked the turducken. Just reheated it in the oven.

We had all the fixins too.
We grilled herbed vegetables on the charcoal grill
Ocean spray cranberry galore..

And it was my roomate and I who feasted.

We had leftovers that disappeared too fast

My roomate didnt want to deal with the parents bullshit and my family wasen't having thanksgiving because
my sister and my mom had the flu and my other sister had shingles.

Food wise it was the best thanksgiving dinner I ever had.

[WhiteTara]

53. A local store was giving them away with

a $100 purchase which is fairly easy these to spend that much. Oh, the shelves were all stocked too.

[Grasswire2]

56. COMING NEXT --- XMAS TREE SHORTAGE

It happens every year.

And then after Christmas, you'll see the tree lots strewn with lots of leftover trees.