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My local Sainsburys and all other supermarkets regularly have Belly but they have trimmed the fat off so you rarely get the crackling.....

Just look around a few threads Maggie - there's plenty :-D :-D

Where can I get tripe??????

Local (city centre) S*insb*ry's doesn't even sell pork belly.

I am lucky meat cut and trimmed just the way I like it. Son and son in law are both butchers :-D :-D

I worked in a bakers many moons ago and we always called the loaf a Tin. Then there was the Bloomer etc. My Dad was a butcher so we always asked for Jigger/Jigget chops now they call them leg of lamb chops. And aren't the so called 'chump chops' tiny these days. The lamb cutlets are even smaller.

begs the question......why would an uncut loaf be any more a sandwich loaf than a sliced one :-D

Sorry PP, never heard of a loaf called a tin before. :-) but I'm happy to enquire at my local Greggs.

Some time ago I went into our local Greggs and asked for an uncut Tin

The girl looked at me as if I was an alien. So I pointed to the loaf and she said Oh thats a Sandwich Loaf - I had heard them called that before but to me its a Tin.

I could never be worse than you John :-0 :-0

Where did I mention Lady Chatterly??? :-S :-S

My grandmother died in 1959.When the butcher who had been delivering to her since before the war retired she began to use a butcher from a couple of villages away who had a round in our village.

That butcher's shop has changed hands a few times since then but they still deliver to our house once a week because OH and my dad eat meat.

When we catered the village lunch he made up a batch of sausages for us and next time we are going to get him to do us a big meat pie or two.

Linda, we are fortunate, in that we have an allotment. Grow all our own fruit and veg.
Whenever I look at these things in the supermarket, they always seem to be on their last legs. But, I have to concede that, not everyone is able to grow their own, so have to use the supermarket.

Julia in Derbyshire

I watch young ladies at the wet fish counter in Morrisons locally. They have no real idea what to buy and how to cook. Think Morrisons do a fantastic job with meat and fish. Does anybody remember MacMarkets from 70's. Exactlly same thing.

Mnay more people are vegetarians, of course. So a lot of meals of my youth (with a tiny bit of meat in them) can no longer be made if one of the family will not eat "anything with a face that smiles at me in the countryside". :-D :-D

My OH has never eaten offal in her life. Don't think I ever ate anything much other than offal till I left home at 18. And it might have looked very horrible, but tasted sublime :-) :-)

if i needed fish i would go to Whitby
their cod and crabs are the best :-D

Island :-( :-( :-(

Yoiu are worse than me!!!! TH Lawrence did not write "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Allegedly batted for other side :-D :-D

It is years since we had a "wet fish" shop in the town. But we have had two mobile fish men with fresh produce from Grimsby, standing on the two fish days here in these parts,on the market place, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Julia in Derbyshire

I didn't know you had a penchant for camel Julia :-S :-0 :-D

Would love to listen to that debate on local radio, Julia. My first job with Tesco almost was as a trainee butcher. Strangely, I have an early photo of myself taken in Kent about 1970 addressing a WI one evening about preparing and cooking meat - have forgotten everything I then knew, but it was a lovely evening - and they all went away with free chops for supper (probably soaked in jalapeno chilli sauce or similar).

My fil was a livestock auctioneer in St Asaph and what he did not know about meat could be written on a postage stamp. He was a real gentleman, but his views were pretty clear and he was no fan of supermarkets.

He would buy his meat from a local abattoir in N Wales who had a weekly auction. Tesco were the big buyers there but would only buy red meat with a low fat content, so dad could pick up dark meat with a high fat content at a bargain basement price at end of auction. And that has always cooked up luvly (yummmmm).

i went yesterday to a massive butchers at Sedgefield Bolams
its quite a way from where i live but well worth the trip
and the meat is so much better than our supermarkets
so it was time to stock the freezer up
i got a tray of lamb chops a tray of belly pork two pork joints one beef joint
a tray of turkey sausages 4 trays of lamb breas tand a tray of black pubbing
and had change from £25 well worth the price

also they sell faggies (bread buns)which are to die for <3

Up until about 12 years ago, (when T**co opened up), we had 9 butchers shops in this town. Now, not one.
I get mine from a farm shop across the border in "D.H. Lawrence country".


Julia in Derbyshire

Same with fishmongers. Main problem for butchers, I would say, was change in fashions of eating about 30 years ago.

I remember in supermarkets we had huge red meat dispays and small chicken displays. Then someone came up with the idea of selling chicken is different forms, corn fed, cooked, list went on and on. Before you knew where you were, the red meat only had a few feet and chicken had footage all over the store.

Also prices of meat fell pro tem because of supermatrket competition, so it was harder for a butcher to survive. In my town, a specialist butcher was absolutely brilliant. He soaked meat in various sauces, he did menus and gave plenty of prep and cooking advice. And spent his evenings addressing groups from WI to Weightwatchers. Today it would be 5+2 slimming clubs, no doubt. :-)

There is one butchers shop in our village .very helpfull .as we are not great meat eaters .but watch the price`s .Mor~~~~ons store will also help & cut joint or whatever you want .just ask eh julia .