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[Pinno718]

I think "exotic monster" may be a bit strong, but, there is a BIG disconnect between peoples understanding of just where their food (meat in particular) comes from, in my experience.

Even on TV farming programs, the animals are talked about as if they are pets, when, in reality, they are just so many Kg of Sunday Roasts or Lamb Chops.

Lamb chops!? Don't frikkin talk about Lamb chops. Can't afford frikkin Lamb chops - that's 'cos the damn Kiwi's turned the land over to dearie.
Oh my kingdom, my kingdom for a shish kebab...

 

[classic33]

The 'Go-getters'. Appalachian dixie band.





Don't google that CRXandy .

I just did, sorry.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I grew up in a farm, I've helped slaughter pigs, sheep and calves. I guess I must be some kind of exotic monster to some people.

Not at all, as BoldonLad says, there is a big disconnect. Some are just oblivious and others don't want to think about the reality of where their meat comes from. I eat meat and fish, and I think if you eat it you have a duty to understand how it is produced.

 

[Webbo2]

Are vegans allowed to eat Americans as they are vegetables.😎

 

[Bazzer]

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You'd be surprised, I remember reading something years ago about a survey where I think 1 in 3 people didn't know bacon came from a pig and some other ridiculous number didn't know milk came from cows.

I grew up in a farm, I've helped slaughter pigs, sheep and calves. I guess I must be some kind of exotic monster to some people.

Reminds me of a tale my Mum, who was brought up in the inner parts of Salford and Manchester would tell of the first time she spent Christmas at my late Dad's family home in rural Lincolnshire. On Christmas Day, the table decoration included the head of the pig that has been killed by my Grandfather for the celebration. Complete with an apple in its mouth.
Whilst Mum knew where cuts of meat came from if, for no other reason than at the time meat in towns and cities was bought from local butchers who would have carcases either hanging or on display, it was nevertheless a bit of a shock to her.
The disconnect between cuts of prepacked meat and the animal that provided it will nowadays be even greater.

 

[HMS_Dave]

I grew up on Chitlins, Tripe, Brawn, and Sheeps brains on toast. That's what having hundreds of years of ancestral farming heritage from the deep, rural Shropshire gave us, before mining took over in Staffordshire in the family and finally nobody is alive in my family that wants it and now my meat comes in a plastic wrappers and my kids grew up going "urgh" at everything that wasn't a Chicken Kiev and even i have to snap out of it when i see some things...

 

[AuroraSaab]

It was fairly common to see rabbits hung up outside small town butchers shops when I was young. I think if you go to Spain you'll still see supermarkets with lots of fish with the head on or a giant tentacle or something, but in the UK we are too squeamish now and want everything softened and sanitised. Like BL says, there's this huge disconnect and we don't really want to know how meat gets to the table. We certainly don't want to know about slaughtering or mechanically recovered meat.

It's always 'Inside the Factory' not 'Inside the Abbatoir'.

 

[Pinno718]

I used to feed Tripe to my Spaniel. I couldn't imagine eating it.
Pigs trotters though, I like and neck of Lamb is actually the preferred meat for Lamb Biryani for example but was it was a common, more affordable Lamb. But these cuts I do not see in the supermarket anymore.

There was an abattoir in the middle of Birmingham for pigs. The locals had an expression: 'The only thing they don't use is the oink!'.
I guess all the stuff that isn't used nowadays just ends up as animal feed.

 

[briantrumpet]

I used to feed Tripe to my Spaniel. I couldn't imagine eating it.
Pigs trotters though, I like and neck of Lamb is actually the preferred meat for Lamb Biryani for example but was it was a common, more affordable Lamb. But these cuts I do not see in the supermarket anymore.

There was an abattoir in the middle of Birmingham for pigs. The locals had an expression: 'The only thing they don't use is the oink!'.
I guess all the stuff that isn't used nowadays just ends up as animal feed.

I'm sure they found a use for the title of this thread too.

 

[CXRAndy]

The 'Go-getters'. Appalachian dixie band.





Don't google that CRXandy .

Do like Hayseed Dixie, excellent tribute band 😁

 

[Ian H]

There was once an abattoir in this town, opposite the primary school. The children were taken on tours of it. The butcher is still going strong but they no longer kill their own meat. We do nearly all our shopping there.

 

[briantrumpet]

There was once an abattoir in this town, opposite the primary school. The children were taken on tours of it. The butcher is still going strong but they no longer kill their own meat. We do nearly all our shopping there.

Do they do bike spares as well? I guess it would make sense if they have a butchers boy.

 

[Ian H]

Do they do bike spares as well? I guess it would make sense if they have a butchers boy.

Not yet. But they did make the sandwiches for the riders on the last event I ran.

 

[Bazzer]

Like BL says, there's this huge disconnect and we don't really want to know how meat gets to the table. We certainly don't want to know about slaughtering or mechanically recovered meat.

It's always 'Inside the Factory' not 'Inside the Abbatoir'.

Two of my first cousins were for many years slaughtermen. I doubt if most adults could handle seeing what happens in an abbatoir, let alone working in one.
Much of modern life, particularly surrounding death is sanitised. Even down to the words used, such as what seems to me to be the increasing use of "passed on" rather than died.

 

[C R]

I'm sure they found a use for the title of this thread too.

Render the fat and use it to soften the leather in work boots.