Butcher shops

[Twocky61]

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Refreshingly here in Bournemouth we have a butcher, fishmonger & bakery next to each other.

Even a little New Forest village Milford on Sea has a butcher

[MalcolmAndSheldon]

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Something I recall from the butcher's shops of old - they always decorated their meat displays with sprigs of parsley.

Yet I don't ever remember meat being cooked or garnished with parsley. Sage, mint, thyme, rosemary - yep! But parsley - well, it just wasn't a thing unless fish was on the menu (and curiously, I don't recall any fishmongers utilising parsley in their shop-window displays)

So I do have to wonder why parsley was the butchers' herb of choice...

[Twocky61]

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One thing butchers sell now is packs of bacon offcuts for 99p

[Zincubus]

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Our local butchers sells fabulous hot sausage muffins made as you wait ...


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[Twocky61]

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Much better than those bland ones Maccy Doo's sell

[Istvan]

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I remember butcher shops where you always glanced in the window at the meats they had,before buying.Sausages were hung on metal hooks,Lamb pork beef joints.They had those white cards and the prices were always in red marker pens and the metal thing were stuck into the meats.There was always a queue.The men wore white aprons a straw hat.Behind the counter you could see those butchers wooden blocks were they would chop up the meat with the cleavers.You could get home made faggots.My mum and Aunt would always buy from the same butchers once a week on a saturday morning.
Now it is too easy to buy from the supermarket.Cant remember when I last bought from an independent shop,30 odd years ago probably

Blimey you were lucky, when I was a kid if they had a couple of rabbits in the window, there would be a queue a mile ling and a riot, back then meat was on ration, until 1954, all one saw in the Butchers' shops were plaster pigs and sheep, with sausage made of sawdust, in the better shops before it had been on the floor!!.
Those were the days "Can I have a sheep's head and mama says leave the eyes in so that it will see us through the week", ah yes all the cheap cuts, because the ration was price based, not weigh, so that the cheaper the cut the more one got for one's ration, stuffed hearts braised kidneys, tripe and onions, when I remember tripe and onions, my stomach still heaves

[George 1978]

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I don't whether it was the salmonella or E-Coli outbreaks of the 1990s, or supermarkets expanding that have caused butchers to cease trading in the past 20 years. I think that it is the supermarkets most likely.

[Richard1978]

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The collapse of Fairpack Christmas Hampers caused some problems for butchers, one near me was an agent for Fairpack & closed not long after they went bust.

[George 1978]

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The collapse of Fairpack Christmas Hampers caused some problems for butchers, one near me was an agent for Fairpack & closed not long after they went bust.

Farepak as they were spelt, although the campaign group when they closed down was called Unfairpak.

[Istvan]

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I can never understand how this xmas hamper firms get away with it, they have been doing it for decades, "Give us £X a week and come xmas we will send you a voucher to spend at our chosen shops" what they don't say is, "In the mean time we will get the interest on your money, the shops that we own are NOT the cheapest and should anything go wrong you will never see your money again, good 'ere init".
They prey on the poor who don't have bank accounts in which to save and can not really afford to lose that money, "Part works" are much the same, the first week/month is half price so that it seems a good deal, what many don't think is, this will cost twice that for each part and there are 100+ parts, running in to hundreds of pounds, about 40 years ago I once lived with a girl who had been collecting these, they had already cost her nearly £100 and she was only about half way through, often when the number of subscribers drop off they stop printing as to give printing for only a few people would cost them more than they would receive and YES I am angry about this, she was a single mum who found it hard to feed her kids and yet she had been suckered in to what was in my opinion a fraudulent deal

[Richard1978]

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Farepak as they were spelt, although the campaign group when they closed down was called Unfairpak.

Right, I wasn't sure of the name.

[George 1978]

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I would never buy a hamper - it would take all the fun of doing food shopping at my local Morrisons, Asda, etc, or my Tesco online shop that I do around December 21st or 22nd. I believe that I have a lot more control in what I want for Christmas, be it a loaf of bread, a box of biscuits for cheese, or a bottle of sherry.

[Istvan]

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personally I do all my xmas shopping in the January sales, saves a fortune

[Richard1978]

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I remember a few companies used to do hampers, but often they had no perishable foods in.

One year we had someone bring the Webb Ivory catalogue which had a page or 2 of different ones.

[George 1978]

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personally I do all my xmas shopping in the January sales, saves a fortune

I was referring to food shopping - I doubt that a lot of what I buy would last 11 months.