"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> I've told this before but it is always good for a laugh.
>
> One year in the mid 1970's my mother decided she didn't want to cook
> Thanksgiving dinner. She kept seeing ads on television from a nearby
> grocery store, Kroger. "Let Kroger Do It For You!" All the work. All
> the side dishes. Just pick it up!
>
> This was before the Internet, folks. This was before Cable TV. She saw
> ads on TV for local stores and store promotions. We only got four
> television channels. CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS. Local advertising.
>
> She used the phone (OMG, a land line) and called the Kroger supermarket in
> Bartlett, TN. Said she'd seen the ad. She ordered a Thanksgiving dinner.
> Roast turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing, gravy. Two sides and a pie. To
> be picked up around Noon on Thanksgiving day.
>
> My middle brother and I went with her to pick it up. My brother was
> loading the box into the trunk when he said, "This feels very cold." We
> opened the box in the parking lot... what was in the box? Frozen solid
> food. A frozen *uncooked* turkey. Frozen everything side dishes. With
> instructions on how to cook all of it.
>
> The television ads (I remember them) made it sound like it would be a
> fully cooked meal. Just bring it home and plate it. It definitely was
> not that.
>
> I have rarely seen my mother display anger in public but she did on that
> day. She told my brother to grab the box and she marched back into the
> store. I was trailing behind thinking "Uh oh." LOL She gave the store
> manager what for. She cited false advertising. She asked what the heck
> was she supposed to do with this box of frozen solid uncooked food? At
> Noon. On Thanksgiving. She demanded and got her money back.
>
> A cautionary tale based in reality.
>
> We went to another grocery store and bought some NY strip steaks and
> russet potatoes. We had broiled steaks and baked potatoes for
> Thanksgiving dinner that year.
>
> Jill


Damn, I would have been ****ed too! I have ordered hams and things, and have
been tempted to order a pre-cooked holiday meal when just the two of us, but
never have. I assume that they are fully cooked. LOL

Cheri