The American Farm Bureau Federation publishes the cost of an average family's average Thanksgiving dinner each year. This year the cost is $49.41, up 37 cents from last year.
Our family spends, on average, $170 a week on groceries. Thanksgiving will take up 30% of our weekly budget...
The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools posted a YouTube video of kindergarten students from an Oklahoma City elementary school as they talk everything turkey.
The kids were asked questions such as "Where do turkeys come from?" "How do you cook a turkey?" "What do you eat with the turkey?"
Their answers were adorable.
Yesterday my wife asked me to go to the store on the way home from work, I forgot that it was just a day before Thanksgiving! The crowds were horrible, the lines long, the stores understaffed, and people were not polite.
Realistically speaking, turkeys don't stand a chance this Thanksgiving. But that hasn't stopped these fowl-tempered (sorry) beasts from fighting back against their would-be devourers, us humans.
While Turkey does contain Tryptophan, a natural sedative, I have found that it's not so much the Turkey, nor over indulgence that brings me to a lazy Thanksgiving afternoon. The item that puts me to sleep the fastest on Thanksgiving day tends to not be something that I eat, rather something that I watch, the Television.