~contributed by 2024 turkey buyer Bryan
“You spent how much on a turkey?” my wife exclaimed.
“I don’t exactly remember,” I said. Which was, strictly speaking, the truth. I did not exactly remember how much the turkey cost, but it was more than I was expecting, and far more than I will willing to admit to my wife.
“Bryan, the sticker on the turkey in the freezer would suggest that it was more than $180. Did you really spend that much on our Thanksgiving turkey,” she exclaimed yet again.
“Maybe,” I sheepishly responded.
And thus, over the next month or so, my lovely wife rather endlessly harassed me on spending way more on a turkey than we had anticipated. “This better be the best darn turkey in the history of poultry,” she told me. Daily. For weeks. Indeed, she took particular glee in mentioning to me the cost of this turkey. She even insisted that we give the poor bird a name. As a result, we named her (it?) Marie Antoinette (you see, the turkey had a neck, but no head…).
And to be honest, this would all be a way better story if we had dropped $180 on a turkey and it were not better than any turkey you could pull from a freezer at a Weis Market for 18 cents a pound. I can hear the story even now. “No…seriously. I’m not making this up. We spent nearly $200—can you believe it?!—on that turkey. And do you know what a $200 turkey tasted like? It tasted like every other turkey I have ever eaten in my whole life! That McGinley character can fool me once, but that nonsense will never happen again.”
But the truth of the matter is quite simple: it was the best darn turkey I have ever had. It was great on Thanksgiving. It was great the next day on sandwiches. It was great several days later in an impromptu batch of turkey chili. What began in my house—amongst all four of us—as a running joke about an overpriced meal—suddenly transitioned to a deep appreciation for regenerative agriculture. It might have cost more, but it was not overpriced.
And this year for Thanksgiving? We are headed back to Good Soil for another turkey.
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