cesare
shady's dreams ♥
If it's good produce, it's fine.The cunts wrangling behind the scenes aren't really wrangling about food - just the price/profit,
Do you use your local butcher?
- Thread starter LilMissHissyFit
- Start date
If it's good produce, it's fine.The cunts wrangling behind the scenes aren't really wrangling about food - just the price/profit,
madzone
Physically unfavourable
a) I don't do it for gain, I do it to feed my family. There's no profit in what we do.Yeah, you have clueYou have more of a clue than me cos you're partially in the business of raising and killing livestock for gain. I do none of that. I'd rather rely on personal trips to big abbatoirs & personl accounts of slaughterhousemen than the RSPCA charity propoganda though.
b) It's not practical to expect everyone to visit an abbatoir really is it? As with every other issue we rely on facts from sources we feel we can trust. What makes one source valid and the other source propoganda? Some people would say that the slaughterman/men you've spoken to isn't as valid a source as the stuff published by the RSPCA *shrug* I just do what I feel is right with the evidence available to me and I suspect that's what others do too.
AnnaKarpik
Queen of all she surveys
My local butcher delivers stuff to me. Beat that! I know he's on his rounds delivering to the local restaurants and that, but I feel privileged. And he is a very good butcher. I do make occasional, specific purchases of the meaty sort in a supermarket when my planning has been thrown awry by a sudden influx of family or something, namely liver and Sainbury's Toulouse sausages. If I travel to the nearest town I can buy game and gluten-free sausages which the delivering butcher doesn't handle.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
I use a butcher that is 12 miles away. Get there late and most of his stock will be sold for the day.
Unfortunately being 12 miles away like he is I don't get to go there often. Oh how I wish I still lived there. Whitchurch has the best shopping for quality veg and quality meat at a fraction of what supermarket's charge for water injected shite. I dunno how they do it but they do.
Thin pork sausages to die for.
Thick bacon sliced off the joint.
Freerange chickens where even the grey meat is actually more like white meat.
Royal Welsh Show Prize winning lamb burgers
Turkey crowns that are a reasonable size for a small household.
Unfortunately being 12 miles away like he is I don't get to go there often. Oh how I wish I still lived there. Whitchurch has the best shopping for quality veg and quality meat at a fraction of what supermarket's charge for water injected shite. I dunno how they do it but they do.
Thin pork sausages to die for.
Thick bacon sliced off the joint.
Freerange chickens where even the grey meat is actually more like white meat.
Royal Welsh Show Prize winning lamb burgers
Turkey crowns that are a reasonable size for a small household.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Yes, but only for eggs and geese.
subversplat
writer of wrongs
No I don't (unsurprisingly....) but I did have a mate who worked there who used to snag loads of tasty freebies for the dog. The butchers in this town is quite a big'un and takes up a sizable chunk of the market square while having a couple of little off-shoots in the suburbs, so I guess it's not like most towns in that respect.
I do visit the greengrocers when I can though
I do visit the greengrocers when I can though
liquidlunch
fargonebeauty
i love our local butcher,the meat is top quality and for the main cheaper than the supermarkets.Not only that he drinks at the local pub,loves a beer and always rounds the price off in my favour when i buy at his shop.Never had a bad cut from him
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
No.
Because his hours suck vs. Morrisons. (god forbid I'd want to grab a steak on my way home from work)
Because he has less variety than Morrisons. (where's my skirt, bitch?)
Because he costs more than Morrisons. (though that's related to his choice to only stock the expensive stuff)
Our local butcher is shit. There is a guy in Cheam who's pretty good, but I'm not driving 2.5 miles out there just for some meat.
Edit: I do go to the monthly farmer's market to get game at least.
Because his hours suck vs. Morrisons. (god forbid I'd want to grab a steak on my way home from work)
Because he has less variety than Morrisons. (where's my skirt, bitch?)
Because he costs more than Morrisons. (though that's related to his choice to only stock the expensive stuff)
Our local butcher is shit. There is a guy in Cheam who's pretty good, but I'm not driving 2.5 miles out there just for some meat.
Edit: I do go to the monthly farmer's market to get game at least.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Twas a bit problematical because of delivery and there's no-one in during the day
Mrs M - you can get half a lamb from the organic beef/lamb people at the farmer's market at a decent price. I thought you might be interested....
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
No, we buy from the farmers market.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Lack of pork sausages?
Lack of pork would stop me going into any butchers tbh. We don't eat lamb and I wouldn't eat beef in England(or beef that I don't know the source of) so if there was a halal butcher round here I wouldn't go there.
It'd probably still smell of bleach and blood anyway <puke>
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Bloody townies
It's more than 2.5 miles to my nearest shop and the farmers market is either a 34 mile round trip or a 30 mile round trip 
Or are you being facetious Maggot?
butcher
boner at the ready
Yup, we use one.
It's my shop
Had it 4 years, we are purely retail, deal in local, free range meats, and have had rave reviews inc. by Matthew Fort in the Guardian for our sausages.
We are not cheap, but for example I but whole chickens and split them into breast legs and wings. I give the carcase away to regulars gratis.
Now my chicken breast is not cheap, (pardon the pun) but it is as it came off the chicken and not full of saline and phosphates etc.
Any Cambridge urbanites pm me and I'll tell you where to find us.
It's my shop
Had it 4 years, we are purely retail, deal in local, free range meats, and have had rave reviews inc. by Matthew Fort in the Guardian for our sausages.
We are not cheap, but for example I but whole chickens and split them into breast legs and wings. I give the carcase away to regulars gratis.
Now my chicken breast is not cheap, (pardon the pun) but it is as it came off the chicken and not full of saline and phosphates etc.
Any Cambridge urbanites pm me and I'll tell you where to find us.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Yup, we use one.
It's my shop
Had it 4 years, we are purely retail, deal in local, free range meats, and have had rave reviews inc. by Matthew Fort in the Guardian for our sausages.
We are not cheap, but for example I but whole chickens and split them into breast legs and wings. I give the carcase away to regulars gratis.
Now my chicken breast is not cheap, (pardon the pun) but it is as it came off the chicken and not full of saline and phosphates etc.
Any Cambridge urbanites pm me and I'll tell you where to find us.
I generally only buy whole chickens as well, and joint them myself. I'm not very good at it though - I need a lesson!
lighterthief
Well-Known Member
I suspect you will find that most abattoirs are based in the country. I'm working at a slaughterhouse just now in the middle of the countryside and cosy and gentle it is not: they slaughter, debone, cut and freeze 1300 pigs an hour.
Yep
Im use our local butcher a fair bit. Love the service, always walk in and am greeted by name. I like service like that, hes a touch more expensive that supermarket but the quality in second to none.
I will then go next door to the independant greengroccer for the veg, then if I happen to be doing a little DIY I will go next door again to the "proper" hardware shop, where you can buy a couple of screws, a tin of paint, a cake tin and a packet of envelopes, along with a million other things!
We are VERY lucky here, its only a medium sized village, in the same square we also have an idependant pharmacy, optitions, off licence and newsagent!
Im use our local butcher a fair bit. Love the service, always walk in and am greeted by name. I like service like that, hes a touch more expensive that supermarket but the quality in second to none.
I will then go next door to the independant greengroccer for the veg, then if I happen to be doing a little DIY I will go next door again to the "proper" hardware shop, where you can buy a couple of screws, a tin of paint, a cake tin and a packet of envelopes, along with a million other things!
We are VERY lucky here, its only a medium sized village, in the same square we also have an idependant pharmacy, optitions, off licence and newsagent!
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
I do. The store I get meat at, has a butcher. Plus, it's cheaper than Superstore, even. And the Superstore meat is oddly tasteless.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
While I get your point, the fact remains that there are suitable replacements within walking distance. I prefer to not hop in the car if I can help it.
And yes, Morrisons does have an actual butcher in-shop, but I figured that didn't count. Mind you, their meat is far better than in most of the other supermarkets.
