Panic buying turkeys ..is turkey the new toilet roll ?

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My two friends have text today saying they have bought a frozen turkey incase people panic buy turkeys Like toilet rolls.
Please tell me this isn't a real thing?
(Excuse other thread posted in wrong area )

*incase people worry Xmas will be ruined without a turkey and stock up

Hahaha no, most of the Xmas turkeys are still gobble gobbling in the fields and will be for a good few weeks yet! There will be plenty

FFS whatever next. I hope their freezers pack up and they have to be binned before Christmas.

Get a grip people.

I won't be joining in ha ha
Tbh I prefer chicken than turkey

Turkey is overrated.

oh for gods sake

Why oh why?

Mind you it reminds me just before lockdown when the panic buying was kicking off I was in the supermarket and I saw a woman with about a dozen Easter eggs in her trolley. She was talking to a friend and I heard her say "I thought I had better stock up because they will be panic buying these next" I swear there was not a hint of irony in the way she said it.

This is the 2nd thread about panic buying turkeys. I didn't even know you can buy turkeys in Sept!

incase people panic buy turkeys Like toilet rolls.

I should imagine a turkey is harder to wipe your arse with, even if it is frozen.

All the more duck, goose, chicken and lamb legs for my Christmas. Bwahahahaha.

Idiots with their crappy, dry turkey.

We'll ship you our surplus after Thanksgiving.

@chocolatesaltyballs22

FFS whatever next. I hope their freezers pack up and they have to be binned before Christmas.

Get a grip people.

Yeah, would be really nice for a living being to have been killed for nothing! Yay.

@MissConductUS

We'll ship you our surplus after Thanksgiving.

As long as it's not bleached and full of hormones!

Agree South park that's exactly what I thought.

I hope some people are stupid enough to buy all the turkeys, the traditional Xmas dinner is overrated, might force us all to be a bit more imaginative.

If anything, might there not be a surplus of turkey? Certainly, the need to buy a Christmas turkey big enough for 15 people might be wishful thinking!

Can you even get turkey in any other month besides December. I've never seen whole turkeys at other times of the year and they eat EVERYTHING where I live.

The toilet paper drama was created because some people panic bought initially, and then others saw the footage of tv and also stocked up in case they couldn’t get it again. But there was never a shortage from a supply perspective, we make it in the U.K. and there was plenty of it - it just couldn’t get into shops quick enough. A lot of the panic buying in other countries was because they didn’t make it themselves so delays in importing caused the shortage.

So unless everyone suddenly decides to buy multiple turkeys, there will be plenty to go round!

BrightYellowDaffodil

If there is a need to stock up, who wants to fill half their freezer with a huge turkey? It would be the last neat I would panic buy.

Meat

There's going to be no bugger coming round at christmas - we'll be fine with a couple of chicken thighs. It'll make a nice change from feeding the 5000....

@rorosemary

Turkey is overrated.

There are some beautiful beaches.

Well, there’s already mince pies in the shop if someone feels the urge to stock up.

There is now a shortage of loo roll in Scotland as people panic buy.

LOO-SING IT Coronavirus Scotland: Shops sell out of loo roll as Scots panic-buy ahead of lockdown announcement

As long as it's not bleached and full of hormones

Fear not, there's plenty of organic turkey produced here we can ship you.