Hazel and the butcher

[fuzzybuddy]

I was flipping through channels and flipped on Hazel. She mentioned something about the butcher shop. Then it dawned on me-when was the last time you saw a "butcher shop". I can remember going to the "A&P" as a kid with my mom. When was the last time you saw an A&P? How about a"J.J.Newberry"? I tried to remember other old stores? McCellan's.

 

[Mrs. Robinson]

I only know of one "butcher shop." One is about 15 minutes from me and they raise and butcher their own cattle,sheep and hogs. They sell "Meat Packs" for your freezer as well your everyday meats. But even they are inside their own little market-not freestanding.

 

[Marie5656]

We actually have an honest to gosh Butcher Shop here. It is a small store, but I would guess most of its business comes from the butchers. They are pretty full service, the will cut and trim meat to order. Plus at the holidays they take pre orders for whatever, be it turkeys, roasts, hams. When we are grilling, I just need to go in and say, I need a couple nice steaks for the grill, and that is exactly what I get. Love the place.

 

[Iodine]

We have a lot of butcher shops in the stores I go in. I never use them because I'm so short and they can never hear me, plus there is usually a language barrier. They have all sorts of meats and stomach linings, big slabs of lard, and sea food. A couple of the stores have other things packaged and priced over on a refrigeratored counter and not in the regular butcher shop area. I remember once years ago dragging my 3 year old grandson out of the store because he was screaming at the top of his lungs that he wanted a fish head! I have seen lamb heads packaged up and other interesting things. I'm sure people can make delicious meals out of these but I've only read about it. I did have a DIL who could do fantastic things with goat meat though. She was the best cook I've never known.

If the OP was referring to stores that are just a butcher shop and nothing else than I only know of 2 of those within 30 miles of my house.

 

[Butterfly]

As far as I know, we have only one specialty butcher shop here.

Fuzzy, I also remember McClellands, Kresge's and Woolworth's -- we called 'em dime stores. We also had Ben Franklin dime stores. I don't think we ever had an A&P here, but we had Safeway and Piggly Wiggly and some others that are gone now. The main ones we have now are Albertsons, Smiths, and Wal-Mart. I do most of my shopping, except for cleaning stuff and things like that, at a Sprouts store, which has wonderful produce at reasonable prices (unlike Whole Foods, whose prices are outrageous).

 

[Victor Meldrew]

For many years, just a couple of miles from where I live right now, there was a place called Mom's Meats. It was the go-to place for good deals on quality cuts of meat. After they'd been around for some time, they expanded the business and opened up Pop's Produce next door.

Unfortunately, for some reason they decided to go out of business. Maybe they were ready to retire, or maybe they were offered a ton of money from Freshfields Farm, because that's what the place is now. Can't tell you about the quality because I don't shop there.

I hear they're pretty good.

Don't know if Hazel would shop there, though.

 

[SeaBreeze]

We have a butcher close to us but it's just called a meat market. I remember as a kid having butcher stores in the neighborhood with the straw on the floors.

 

[Shalimar]

We have a butcher shop not far from where I live.

 

[jujube]

I can remember when butcher shops still had the carcasses hanging where you could see them. I hated like the dickens having to go into those shops with my grandmother or mother.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Here in rural Scotland, the butcher's shop is alive and well. Most towns and villages have them, and they're usually better and sometimes cheaper than supermarkets. Same goes for fishmongers. Of course since we started raising our own pigs and sheep, we don't use the butcher so much.