Cookout Cost & 90's Kid Summer

Having a 4th of July cookout this year? Dangerous Dave talks about the cost of your cookout this year. Plus, the "90's Kid Summer" is trending but is it really doable for kids today?

Episode Transcript

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This is deeper in the den with dangerous date. American
Farm Bureau Federation just released their annual report on the
cost of the average Fourth of July cookout. It's actually
down just to tad from last year. Not enough to
move the needle, though. The average backyard barbecue for ten
people seventy dollars ninety two cents is here. That's down
thirty cents from twenty twenty four, just over seven dollars

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per person. They say inflation and lower availability keeping some
things high. If you're just doing burgers or dogs, it
might cost even less. If you're doing ribbis, it probably
might cost you more. But they factored in twelve things.
The items were ground beef, chicken, pork chops, buns, cheese, potato, salad,
pork and beans, potato chips, cookies, ice cream, strawberries, and lemonade.

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To get to that amount, really maybe for those teetotalers,
I feel like it's seventy bucks is going to be
about the average beer budget for a backyard barbecue this year,
deeper in the ten. Millennial parents are behind this trend.
Some people say it's not realistic. What do you think
There's a trend called ninety kids summer. The idea is
you give your kids a kind of summer you had

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back when things were a lot simpler. It means like
running through sprinklers, drinking from the hose, and riding bikes
all day with minimal supervision. Basically, get outside, don't come
back till it's dark. Nineties nostalgia's big right now. The
reason it's trending. Kids have the general feeling that they
don't get to be kids anymore. But ninety kids summer.
Is it actually doable? Experts say it could be for

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some families, but not others. Don't force it. It's hard
if you live in the city or a not so
safe area where both parents work. They also said, the
chance your your child is capable of having a nineties
kid summer if you force the side, they might not
know what to do. An expert at Michigan State explained,
you can't have this overscheduled, technology saturated life for nine
months and then just switch it off to absolute freedom

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for three months, So we haven't prepared our children for that.
They said, if you force them to act like a
nineties kid, they might end up being more stressed and
more anxious than they already were. I think it's a
good idea for kids to at least try to experience that.
But nineties kids, come on, you really want to give
them a crazy time talk about seventies and eighties kids.

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