NZ thanksgiving turkey

On a whim we decided to have a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner and immediately invited our friends over for the affair. We quickly realized it wouldn't be practical to hold our Kiwi Thanksgiving on actual Thanksgiving - it's a Thursday and we'll have to work. And we'll have to go to work the next day too. Kiwi Thanksgiving will have to be on Saturday. Not a big deal.

Now we're running into more problems. We assumed we'd be able to source a turkey from the supermarket or the butcher. This weekend while doing our weekly shop, we had a quick look. Countdown had no fresh turkeys. It had only frozen turkeys, and in fact, only 2 of them. And it didn't exactly look like the rest had already been bought up. It looked more like these 2 sad looking 5.5kg (12lb)turkeys had been sitting in the cooler since last Christmas. The price tag? $77.00 (SEVENTY SEVEN DOLLARS)!!!! That's each. That's $77 for a measly little frozen turkey.

No worries. The butcher will have turkeys. I stopped into Verkerks, the butcher shop close to my work. I asked if they had any turkeys. Some discussion between the butchers ensued. The final answer: the turkeys don't come in until the 1st of December. "So not in time for Thanksgiving then..." I said. "Well, this being New Zealand..." the butcher said. Right. Not in America anymore. No Thanksgiving turkeys.

No worries. The internet will have turkeys! Yes, the internet does have turkeys. We can buy a frozen 6.5kg turkey online for the bargain price of $91.60. Eek.

Thanksgiving lamb, anyone?