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On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:27:46 -0500, jmcquown >
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>On 11/11/2020 4:21 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>
>> I just ordered my complete cooked Thanksgiving dinner from Albertsons.
>> The cost is about what it would be to order all the parts and pieces
>> and then still have to cook. I just can't/don't want to cook all that
>> stuff anymore. It's too hard on me. So, problem solved.
>> I'll be getting a 12 pound roasted turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes,
>> gravy and cranberry sauce. We will have leftovers but that is fine.
>> Janet US
>>

>Sounds like a plan.
>
>I do hope it turns out better than what happened when I was a teenager
>and my mother didn't feel like cooking Thanksgiving dinner. She saw an
>ad in the Sunday paper: Let Kroger Do It For You. Ads on TV, too.
>Turkey and all the fixin's. IIRC it sure looked tasty! So she ordered
>ahead, to be picked up on Thanksgiving day. The assumption was, of
>course, it would be a fully cooked meal. My brother and I went with her
>to pick it up. Carrying the box to the car my brother said, "This box
>is very cold." We opened up the box in the trunk and everything in it
>was frozen solid. The turkey, side dishes, everything. Mom was not a
>happy camper! She marched that box right back in and demanded her money
>back.
>
>We went to another store. We had steaks and baked potatoes for
>Thanksgiving dinner that year.
>
>Jill


That's like the movie Christmas Story/ The neighbor's dogs ate the
turkey sot the family went out for Chinese dinner.
BTW, it does say fully cooked
Janet UF