Dive Brief:
- The cost of a Thanksgiving meal is a few pennies higher this year than last, according to the annual survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
- A meal of turkey, stuffing, cranberries, all the trimmings, and pumpkin pie will come to $49.41 this year, just 37 cents higher than last year.
- According to the survey, now in its 29th year, the price of the holiday meal has held at around $49 since 2011.
Dive Insight:
It's always good news when we see that the cost of our national meal remains within reach. That, after all, is what the meal is designed to be. Because despite what the national mythology might say, the menu of the Thanksgiving meal was designed to foster a sort of egalitarian, anyone-can-afford-it, anti-aristocratic culture here in the States.