Colchester butchers benefiting from horse meat scandal (From Essex County Standard)

How can anyone tell what meat the butcher's selling?

chuffster wrote:
How can anyone tell what meat the butcher's selling?

Not too hard a question to answer is it. A butcher would have almost a passport of the history of the animals they sell unlike a supermarket that are only interested of selling for a profit and do not know where it comes from. Go in a supermarket and ask the manager where the meat comes from and he would not have a clue like Thailand chicken in ready meals , then go to a butcher and he will know .
Supermarkets are only interested in selling anything as cheap as possible , as has been seen at the moment.
Supermarket are one of the worst thing to come out this country in the last 50 years. Wouldn't it be lovely to get back to yesteryear when we had butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.

I stopped buying supermarket meat years ago, our local butcher sells meat of better quality it tastes better and is usually a bit cheaper.

RB
"Supermarket are one of the worst thing to come out this country in the last 50 years. Wouldn't it be lovely to get back to yesteryear when we had butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.”
sorry to remind you RB,
we still have thriving butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.”
If you cannot understand that supermarket competition results in better local stores, rather than failed local stores, then we must try harder to keep the remaining local stores viable.

The local butchers and/or their wholesalers source from Colchester market so that cow you saw today may be on your plate in a couple of weeks.

jeffbridges wrote:
RB "Supermarket are one of the worst thing to come out this country in the last 50 years. Wouldn't it be lovely to get back to yesteryear when we had butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.” sorry to remind you RB, we still have thriving butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.” If you cannot understand that supermarket competition results in better local stores, rather than failed local stores, then we must try harder to keep the remaining local stores viable.

I dont know where you live but my nearest non supermarket greengrocer and fishmonger is in the town centre a place that will soon be difficult for me to get to when it goes traffic free in the High St

Drive around Langham and Nayland and you can see Colemans meat grazing in the fields.

As for the high st making access into town harder, Taj. It won't affect anything, very few cars use the high st as it is due to the number of traffic lights. Town will just soldier on, although all the buses and taxis down the High St won't make a pavement culture as their fumes are the worst of the lot.

Taj wrote:

jeffbridges wrote:
RB "Supermarket are one of the worst thing to come out this country in the last 50 years. Wouldn't it be lovely to get back to yesteryear when we had butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.” sorry to remind you RB, we still have thriving butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.” If you cannot understand that supermarket competition results in better local stores, rather than failed local stores, then we must try harder to keep the remaining local stores viable.

I dont know where you live but my nearest non supermarket greengrocer and fishmonger is in the town centre a place that will soon be difficult for me to get to when it goes traffic free in the High St

You can park in Crouch St for half an hour and there you have Frank Wright's butchers, Whitnell's greengrocer, and Gunton's sells bread from an excellent baker, as good as Kathleen's Kitchen. And there is Hughes fishmongers at the beginning of Head Street. All these shops are within maybe 400 metres of each other.
And of course we have our bus service, which is fine provided you can avoid the so-called bus station.

Sorry guys but many butchers source their meat from companies that import meat from overseas. I believe that beef from Argentina only needs to be in the country for 24 hours for it to be labelled British.

It will be great if this does boost trade for local shops - not just butchers, but also grocers, bakers etc. The supermarkets thrive because too many people simply do not know how to cook, or are too lazy to bother.

So much easier just to get a packaged lasagne and chuck it in the oven, and if that´s all you eat, you won´t realise how much nicer it would be if you made it yourself.

I´ve been using the butchers in town for some years, because the meat is just nicer. Cost-wise, it can also end up cheaper unless judged against the really "Value" end - and now we all see where that has come from.

I do hope this has a long-lasting change on where people buy their food, although I do fear that people who lived on ready meals before will probably continue to do so. But if some people change that, it´s a good thing.

Boris wrote:

Taj wrote:

jeffbridges wrote:
RB "Supermarket are one of the worst thing to come out this country in the last 50 years. Wouldn't it be lovely to get back to yesteryear when we had butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.” sorry to remind you RB, we still have thriving butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.” If you cannot understand that supermarket competition results in better local stores, rather than failed local stores, then we must try harder to keep the remaining local stores viable.

I dont know where you live but my nearest non supermarket greengrocer and fishmonger is in the town centre a place that will soon be difficult for me to get to when it goes traffic free in the High St

You can park in Crouch St for half an hour and there you have Frank Wright's butchers, Whitnell's greengrocer, and Gunton's sells bread from an excellent baker, as good as Kathleen's Kitchen. And there is Hughes fishmongers at the beginning of Head Street. All these shops are within maybe 400 metres of each other.
And of course we have our bus service, which is fine provided you can avoid the so-called bus station.

Not forgetting Tesco Express on the corner Boris for your horsemeat.

The Blue Frog wrote:
Sorry guys but many butchers source their meat from companies that import meat from overseas. I believe that beef from Argentina only needs to be in the country for 24 hours for it to be labelled British.

Frank Wrights are all British I believe

Shambolic wrote:

The Blue Frog wrote: Sorry guys but many butchers source their meat from companies that import meat from overseas. I believe that beef from Argentina only needs to be in the country for 24 hours for it to be labelled British.

Frank Wrights are all British I believe

Yes, they can say it's British - that was the point I was making.

Feisty CBC wrote:

Boris wrote:

Taj wrote:

jeffbridges wrote:
RB "Supermarket are one of the worst thing to come out this country in the last 50 years. Wouldn't it be lovely to get back to yesteryear when we had butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.” sorry to remind you RB, we still have thriving butchers shops, bakers, fish shops and greengrocers.” If you cannot understand that supermarket competition results in better local stores, rather than failed local stores, then we must try harder to keep the remaining local stores viable.

I dont know where you live but my nearest non supermarket greengrocer and fishmonger is in the town centre a place that will soon be difficult for me to get to when it goes traffic free in the High St

You can park in Crouch St for half an hour and there you have Frank Wright's butchers, Whitnell's greengrocer, and Gunton's sells bread from an excellent baker, as good as Kathleen's Kitchen. And there is Hughes fishmongers at the beginning of Head Street. All these shops are within maybe 400 metres of each other.
And of course we have our bus service, which is fine provided you can avoid the so-called bus station.

Not forgetting Tesco Express on the corner Boris for your horsemeat.

Thanks Feisty. I have several times eaten horse meat abroad and it is very good, leaner than beef, but sweetish which is odd when you first try it. But I prefer it to be sold as horsemeat, rather than as something else. That's one reason why I never buy anything at Tesco. The Co-op may sometimes be a little dearer, and offer a more limited choice, but you can have confidence in them.

i purchased some value beef burgers " and they're off " !