Chelsea Jackson of Minneapolis recently hosted a “We’re Poor” party. She cooked up all the food dying a very slow death in the freezer: chicken legs, cheesecake, mystery soup, stir-fry vegetables and freeze-burned ravioli. Sounds like a good time. But going retro on the food menu doesn’t help our 2008 economy.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 | 10:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 3:43 p.m. CDT, Friday, October 10, 2008
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