FabSwingers.com forum: Why are turkeys

By *rtemisia OP Woman
over a year ago

Norwich

So expensive? They're only like a big chicken.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cos it's Christmas and supply and demand shoots the price up..

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By *rtemisia OP Woman
over a year ago

Norwich

Turkey's are always expensive!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So expensive? They're only like a big chicken."

They cost more to breed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Turkey's are always expensive!"

Cause they're crap so no one normally buys them so there's less economies of scale in play.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just bought the smallest frozen turkey that I could find for about £8 & I reckon I'll get two roast dinners out of it & 4 or 5 Sri Lankan red curry dinners; - not expensive me thinks.

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By *ngel n tedCouple
over a year ago

maidstone

I heard bernard matthews invented turkeys some 300 hundred years ago, and has d*unk their blood every christmas and easter to fortify his immortality. He owns there patent and the monopoly on them, ergo thats why there so expensive

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just bought the smallest frozen turkey that I could find for about £8 & I reckon I'll get two roast dinners out of it & 4 or 5 Sri Lankan red curry dinners; - not expensive me thinks. "

How little do you eat!?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just bought the smallest frozen turkey that I could find for about £8 & I reckon I'll get two roast dinners out of it & 4 or 5 Sri Lankan red curry dinners; - not expensive me thinks.

How little do you eat!?

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I'm a hog!

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

"So expensive? They're only like a big chicken."

Costs extra for a gobble.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

King's Crustacean

Frozen ones are very cheap.

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By *sianmale89Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"So expensive? They're only like a big chicken."

evening _rtemisia,

I think turkeys are more expensive because of either the demand also given the time off year a lot of people want turkey so the cost of bringing them into the supermarkets/stores etc delivered fresh etc and also costs amounted together can go up also depending on how many are available and if the supply runs out?

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By *sianmale89Man
over a year ago

Stockport

also remember the stores need to make back their money on how much they spent on bringing in the turkey so they up the price to make a bigger profit for themselves..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just to digress slightly warburtons have made a giant crumpet!! Im so happy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is another reason I don't eat turkey!

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By *icky999Man
over a year ago

warrington

...... to avoid the russian destroyer!!!!!!

my two second google says they're about 60p/100g each.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So expensive? They're only like a big chicken.

Costs extra for a gobble.

Winning answer...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So expensive? They're only like a big chicken.

They cost more to breed"

Boring but true

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Turkey has become more expensive now they have been identified as a healthier option to chicken.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just to digress slightly warburtons have made a giant crumpet!! Im so happy

Bastard thing don't fit in my cheap toaster

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm replacing the Turkey for Rabbit this year...fuck tradition

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

They take considerably linger to grow than chicken - I think the price per kilo is comparable.

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By *oxy_minxWoman
over a year ago

Scotland - Aberdeen

I'm hoping to have beef wellington for my dinner.

Turkey is cheap throughout the year except Xmas, it's not a meat I am fond of.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The reason they are expensive is that they take between 14 and 20 weeks to grow, rather than 40 days for a chicken!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We've got turkeys and they take longer to get to size, eat more and take up more space than chickens.

D-day for the turkeys tomorrow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just buy a crown.

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By *xyzptlk088Man
over a year ago

Galway

"Frozen ones are very cheap. "

frozen turkeys going cheap? you sure that isn't frozen budgies?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just to digress slightly warburtons have made a giant crumpet!! Im so happy

Me too!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We always buy turkey crown! cheaper!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I could have got free Turkeys the other day, they were sprawled over the road.....

Took me 2 hours to get home from work

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