What a country when difficult economic times mean buying the Butterball turkey instead of free-range. Kids in Darfur feel your pain, ma’am.

“Maybe you cut back on the (holiday) gifts a little bit, or maybe you don’t have as extravagant a Thanksgiving as you used to,” she said. “Maybe you don’t have a free-range bird as you’ve had in the past; maybe you go to a Butterball.”

Via Professor Reynolds who, as I did, thought Butterball counted as a premium turkey.