On 11/11/2020 8:31 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:27:46 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
LOL It's a Thanksgiving memory I'll never forget! Let's hope
Albertson's means it when they advertise a fully cooked Thanksgiving
dinner.

Jill