Get your Thanksgiving dinner from the Dollar Tree (PHOTOS)

plumbing

I think was a complete meal to offer and it is for free. Well, it is a privilege to give thanks.

Mr Kitty

I agree with Dishpr. can't you just be informational and fun and save the snark to TMZ and the like? there are a lot of poverty stricken people with pride and they deserve our respect and help.

make8it

Kinda makes you wonder who comes up with all that stuff doesnt it?anon-web-surf.tk

make8it

That actually sounds like a pretty good plan dude.real-anon-tools.tk

Victoria Grace

I understand the satire of the article so I'm not really offended, but there may be a misconception amongst some in society that food from the Dollar Tree is bottom-of-the-line.Yeah, some food IS but most isn't. I love to buy groceries from the Dollar Tree--I find it a lot of fun that I can get everything from chicken thighs to fresh bread and (really good quality) cold cuts for a fraction of the price I'd be paying at supermarkets for (really) the same kind of products. I don't shop there because I'm poor (I'm not)--I shop there because I'm super frugal and am always hunting for a bargain, no matter how much money is in my purse. I also shop at Wegman's which is a very upscale gourmet supermarket. I just love paying low prices! For the same reason, I adore thrifting and getting freebies online.Really, the food there is NOT bad--I've had quite a few yummy meals from there. :)

Guest

don't you get it? i'm makiing typos so you can cry about it.......you are so predictable

Johnnysnewstart

she gets to shop at whole foods because she cracks her legs open once a month for hubby.

Jennifer Wohletz

Hell, if that's all it takes to get a trip to the Whole Foods then I'm in the dead wrong line of work. What would I have to do to get an extra bag of organic green beans thrown in the mix?

GFTW

Get a job at Twin Peaks! There's a Whole Paycheck right across Colfax.

GFTW

Now you're thinking!!

Jennifer Wohletz

I think that's a fine idearr. I'm sure I would have no trouble getting hired on, since dudes LOVE chubby, pink-haired, inked-up, pierced-up servers bringing them cheese fries. I'll wear a barely-there bikini top, shorty-short shorts and bend over--a lot. But I would really need to make sure that my new employers have no issue with me tithing 10% of my gross income to the LDS church.

Dishpr

this isn't satire. grab your dictionary. poking fun at food that comes from a place where many people (may need to) shop, is lame.

Mantonat

See, epl? This is exactly what I am talking about. Dishpr thinks that Jenn is making fun of Dollar Tree and its customers. It's not even within the realm of possibility that the larger point is that cheap, industrial, mass-produced food is making Americans sick, even after I conveniently included some numbered tips on how to interpret this particular line of satire. I hear one-year-old, milk-fed babies are a good source of sustenance, or at least a good source of income if you'd rather sell one than eat one.

Dishpr

even if we take your point about "cheap, industrial, mass-produced..." who cares when most people don't have the resources to eat differently. you're insights are a light in the fog to people who have to shop at dollar tree. and if this was supposed to be satire, then maybe the author should have written it in 3rd person instead of 2nd.. i mean if he actually wanted to satirize an institution and not a group of dollar tree customers. snob city.

Jennifer Wohletz

Well, I think that Jennifer guy is funny.

Mantonat

Pointing out social inequity is the first step in the direction of change. Calling someone named Jennifer "he" is just adding to the impression that your reading skills are remedial at best.

GFTW

She meant, "All Your Dollar Tree Are Belong To Us."

lipster

Ditto Dishpr. And the writer's self-justifying responses to this thread of comments only make it worse.

lyls23r

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Jennifer Wohletz

Newspapers? Are those the things made from paper with words on them? I have heard of such things.

Jennifer Wohletz

My one real regret about my age is that I wasn't old enough to remember the Reagan administration. Pity.

Colforbin

lucky you. reagan sucked balls.

GFTW

Yeah, all that prosperity really sucked.

GFTW

Truly great times back then. The complete opposite of now.

Guest

if these times are so bad you do something to change them instead of complaning on a blog comment section. or you could just off yourswelf.

GFTW

Riiiiiiight. Occupying cesspools on plazas is clearly the way.

Jennifer Wohletz

Story haves typo? Writter should be takn outsid an shot.

Guest

"Obviously it's a typo"... no shit fucking asshole. so if you know it's a typo what is the point? to make yourswelf feel big and smart? to make someone else feel bad. that's the point i'm making. you are dick.. just to be a dick. so go fuck youself dick.

Guest

yes that makes sense. it's asking if you are at the dollar tree. did you ever think of that genius?

Guest

i was repling to you greg not col

Colforbin

huh what? do you not understand the statement? are you not familar with the dollar tree? what part is so confusing to you?

Guest

oh..... you one of those proof reader assholes. i guess that you are refering to her use of the word ARE instead of FOR. but maybe she just forgot a ?

Jon S

I can't believe people get so offended my a satirical post in a food blog. If you do, then I submit that your wit is duller than the ambiance at the Cherry Creek Grill, your sense of humor more bland than the food at Casa Bonita, and your mind more sparsely populated than the top of a Marco's Coal Fired pizza.

Jennifer Wohletz

Heeheehee.....I'd prefer a Dollar Tree meal over one at Casa Bonita any day. If only the DT had cliff divers...sigh.

Mantonat

I guess those lessons in social satire have not helped the Cafe Society readership, so here's a rough guide:1) It is a common media trope these days that obesity is rampant in the US, especially below the poverty line.2) Dollar Tree and similar stores are a necessary reality for many working-class Americans.3) How are people supposed to find healthy food when the cheapest food is the worst food for you?

Jenn is using humor to point out social inequities. Maybe you don't think it's funny, but then maybe you just don't think, period.

epl

Two references to satire on an internet message board in one week! You're so intellectual Mantonat. Perhaps you can replace the In the Weeds column and give all of us intellectually-inferior simple folk lessons in critically reading the literary wonders of Cafe Society.

But, I digress. What if Westword's attempts at satire aren't funny? You (in a very reductive manner, and reductive is being nice) dismiss people who don't find this funny as people who "just don't think." I see it differently. It's a lack of thinking from Westword that's resulting in poor attempts at humor that come off as more than a bit heavy handed (seriously, the Joe Paterno shot was beyond sophomoric.)

But what do I know, I'm just someone who doesn't think. Period.

Mantonat

Thanks for keeping up on my responses - it feels great to have a readership! I don't think I ever claimed that this article and the Joe Paterno cocktail recipe were funny. Whether or not you think they are funny is not the point. The point is that some people were claiming to be offended by the content of the articles. If you don't understand the attempt at satire in the first place, I guess it would be easy to assume that the writers think that poor people and child abuse are funny. My only hope is that people stop for a moment to ask the question: Is this writer really so insensitive that they would make fun of the victims of malnourishment/abuse, or are they trying to skewer the perpetrators or otherwise make a point about socio-economics/politics/media oversaturation/etc. In my first response to the other article, I mentioned Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" because in back in the early 1700s, people were ignorant enough to think he was actually advocating eating children.