Old fashioned butcher's shops

[kazboot]

Re: Old fashioned butcher's shops

I remember a butcher's shop just like that my mum used to go in.
There was a stuffed front of a bull's head on the wall with the two horns that used to fascinate me.

[ann22]

Re: Old fashioned butcher's shops

I was just talking about these recently to a friend. Yeah, I remember kicking the sawdust, making wee piles of it...and all the carcusses hanging up. My friend became vegetarian after getting a good close up view of a pig's carcus being carried into the shop. I wasn't a bit bothered, don't think it dawned on me they were real dead animals.

[Trickyvee]

We had a butcher's down our local shops with sawdust on the floor and all the huge carcasses hanging up on the back wall right where the customers stood. It would never be allowed now! I remember the raw smell, kicking around the sawdust and probably giving the meat a poke out of curiosity. The butcher was your typically jolly, wise cracking butcher-type fella but even as a kid I thought he was too in-your-face and I didn't like him, poor guy.