There is a whole gaggle at 1600 Penn. Ave. in DC.There goes a rafter of them now.
And the mother hen is carrying a weapon!
Posted on 11/19/2013 4:30:00 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
If you're planning on serving your family a fresh turkey this Thanksgiving, you may be hard pressed to find one available at your local supermarket.
Less than two weeks before the year's greatest food holiday, Butterball, the nation's largest producer of turkeys, is warning of a shortage of birds.
Butterball announced that it will be shipping out half as many large, fresh never-frozen turkeys to retailers this year. The company says many of its birds had trouble gaining weight during the production process. And though the cause of the problem remains a mystery, food distributors say their orders for turkeys 16 pounds and bigger have been slashed in half. Sixteen pounds is the national average for Thanksgiving holiday turkeys making this shortage a particularly concerning problem.
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There is a whole gaggle at 1600 Penn. Ave. in DC.
I always get the smallest turkey I can find. It looks like I will have no trouble finding one this year.
Eat mor chikin.
Not around the DC beltway
Excellent marketing! “There’s a shortage!!! Buy NOW!
Or a shortage of halal turkeys?
THE ISLAMIC BUTTERBALL? YOUR THANKSGIVING TURKEY COULD BE HALAL CERTIFIED
I’d be interested in what they fed these turkeys that kept them from gaining weight.
Or maybe they stopped pumping them full of hormones.
Who cares about this? Butterball is not the only turkey in town.
There is a whole gaggle at 1600 Penn. Ave. in DC.There goes a rafter of them now.
And the mother hen is carrying a weapon!
Maybe they have cancer and can not gain weight!
Poultry is effected by many things, including weather. May have been a hot spell or could have been an incorrect feed mix. I bet they know or suspect what the issue was, just choose not to share it for some reason.
Butterball is anything but “fresh.”
Yeppers. Collectivists loooooove shortages.
Butterball is Halal, prepared by Muslims, they will have plenty unbought.
Very good point, thanks for the reminder, hayek.
Probably what BB means is that it will not put out as many turkeys as in previous years. :)
More & more people are using the hot oil fryers for their turkeys. Those units cannot handle a turkey much larger than 14 pounds.
Also- I needed a second turkey roasting pan. I still cannot find one as large as the one I have had for over 40 years.
There’s no turkey shortage, in fact there’s a huge surplus. They’re called Obama voters.
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