Turkey Legs - Inflation?

[Jezzy MacPeaks]

I don't know,

I watch people eating the nasty, greasy, overcooked things and just don't understand why they eat the worst part of the bird by choice.

I guess if that's what you really have a hankering for, no price is too much.

I go for the loaded baked potato myself, best bang for the buck, filling ans a good bit of nutrition to them.

Viscomte

I'm with you.  I was given one for free last year from a  grateful patron.  I took the obligatory bite and smiled, then tossed it as soon as they left!  I, too, prefer the potato, and once in a while, especially on a very cold day, I'll go for a lovely bread bowl.
I'm sure the price of turkey legs, like everything else, was bound to go up, sooner or later, but by a drastic $1 to a buck-fifty?  Big OUCH!

[Dustin]

I don't know,

I watch people eating the nasty, greasy, overcooked things and just don't understand why they eat the worst part of the bird by choice.

I guess if that's what you really have a hankering for, no price is too much.

I go for the loaded baked potato myself, best bang for the buck, filling ans a good bit of nutrition to them.

Viscomte

I'm with you.  I was given one for free last year from a  grateful patron.  I took the obligatory bite and smiled, then tossed it as soon as they left!  I, too, prefer the potato, and once in a while, especially on a very cold day, I'll go for a lovely bread bowl.
I'm sure the price of turkey legs, like everything else, was bound to go up, sooner or later, but by a drastic $1 to a buck-fifty?  Big OUCH!

Realistically, though, if the price is going to increase, a dollar is the likely increase amount. Food vendors don't want to deal with change any more that they have to.

[Aaroncois]

I was reflecting on past faires and came upon a memory that must be from the very early 90s - 92 or 93 at the latest - of telling another fairegoer at Sterling how much the turkey legs were. The cost at the time was $3. It's amazing to me that these have more than doubled in price since then.

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

What do they do with the rest of the turkey?  Is there a bunch of legless turkeys lying around out there?   

[Blushing]

... I always envisioned them HOPPING ... 

[Rowan MacD]

   In addition to the high prices,  it seems to me that the legs offered at fair the last few years (around here, anyway) are smaller, averaging not much bigger than a good sized chicken leg.  I fondly remember just 5 years ago or so, when you could get a leg that would feed two people, and the drink and chips were included, all for $6.00!
  2009 has certainly seen a big jump in price, with a single leg anywhere from 6 to 8$ at the Vendor stall.  
 To be fair, the supermarket isn't exactly cheap either.  A two pack of drumsticks was going for almost 6$ at Walmart a while back, and it doesn't look like they are getting any cheaper.
  I keep to brats or a hotdog, or a dragon-tail taco if I can find one.

[Lady Rebecca]

Well Blushing, it's just a flesh wound, right?

[Lady Rosalind]

The ones we saw at the Amana Faire and Dubuque were huge, so $8 seemed appropriate. These were much bigger than I remembered from years past. Amos ran out of legs at both faires, and they smelled divine!

[Woodsman]

I don't like Turkey Legs, but if they put Turkey Breast strips on a stick I would buy them.

[Dinobabe]

  In addition to the high prices,  it seems to me that the legs offered at fair the last few years (around here, anyway) are smaller, averaging not much bigger than a good sized chicken leg.  I fondly remember just 5 years ago or so, when you could get a leg that would feed two people, and the drink and chips were included, all for $6.00!
  2009 has certainly seen a big jump in price, with a single leg anywhere from 6 to 8$ at the Vendor stall.  
 To be fair, the supermarket isn't exactly cheap either.  A two pack of drumsticks was going for almost 6$ at Walmart a while back, and it doesn't look like they are getting any cheaper.
  I keep to brats or a hotdog, or a dragon-tail taco if I can find one.

OK, what's a dragon-tail taco?

[Dracconia]

I know that at  my home faire Four Winds they are going for five dollars, and as this is the cheapest price mentioned...may I say I am thankful for small town and small faire prices sometimes!

[DonaCatalina]

I'm hearing rumbles that Turkey Leg prices might have gone up again. The price of beef brisket has gone up 8% since the first of 2010.

[Francisco Paula]

I have yet to try a turkey leg at faire. I do tend toward protien of some form to fill the tank halfway through the day in the hot colorado summer during faire.

Now as for the legless turkeys i tend to picture them with peglegs and an eye patch but then i do tend toward a pirate myself.

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

I picture these farms with turkeys that are nothing more than breast and legs (great concept - eh?).  Legs for the Ren faires and breasts for the thanksgiving holidays (maybe those multi-legged turkeys that John Madden had on T-day were real )

Anyway, the legs smell good, but could just not get past the people gnawing on them.

[Butch]

Gauwyn, that new look of yours changes your whole personna!  No longer a rough and tumble ranger, eh?  The court life is softening you up?  Can't eat meat from the bone any longer, I see.  HA!  Hopefully our paths will cross again this year.  Planning on going to St Louis, MN, SW MO (Joplin), and Des Moines.  KC goes without saying, of course!