"My dad is going a meat run"

[Deleted User] · 17/01/13 - 11:03

Has anyone ever heard of this so called "meat run"? Or has anyone ever participated or been associated with this type of activity?

A guy in my work once came round with a price list displaying various cuts of meat such as "a full pig" and "half a cow" etc. and asking if we wanted anything?

Is this common? First time I've ever heard of the likes.

I politely declined.

PrinceOfDenmark · 17/01/13 - 11:06

Raligt wrote: »

Has anyone ever heard of this so called "meat run"? Or has anyone ever participated or been associated with this type of activity?

A guy in my work once came round with a price list displaying various cuts of meat such as "a full pig" and "half a cow" etc. and asking if we wanted anything?

Is this common? First time I've ever heard of the likes.

I politely declined.

Is he a cattle rustler?

vosne · 17/01/13 - 11:06

I've been on a meat holiday. Didn't involve a lot of butchery though.

InMyArms · 17/01/13 - 11:13

Raligt wrote: »

A guy in my work once came round with a price list displaying various cuts of meat such as "a full pig" and "half a cow" etc. and asking if we wanted anything?

I wouldn't get the half a cow, the other half is probably horse.:eek:

[Deleted User] · 17/01/13 - 11:26

Neigh.

soulboy77 · 17/01/13 - 11:28

My parents use to buy half a pig (cut up) and various beef cuts and store them in the freezer. Works out a lot cheaper.

jsmith99 · 17/01/13 - 11:38

In the north-east they have "baccy runs". People are paid a small amount to get on a coach, be driven to Luxemburg, buy a couple of thousand cigarettes, or rolling tobacco, each (cash supplied), then back on the coach and back to the UK.

Well, so I've been told by relatives up there.

Voynich · 17/01/13 - 11:44

Guys used to come around the pub with a bag of meat. I was never tempted.

wantoosoon · 17/01/13 - 11:50

I sometimes get together with family and we buy a (butchered) lamb from a local smallholder and go halves on it.

Works out a lot cheaper and tastes so much better than the supermarket stuff.

Porcupine · 17/01/13 - 11:54

There is a guy who lives near us who has sheep and pigs. He offered us 1/2 a pig once. I was tempted. It really was cheap.

[Deleted User] · 17/01/13 - 11:57

I was offered a hoof for a quid.

Voynich · 17/01/13 - 12:02

Does the chicken go cheep?

DaisyBumbleroot · 17/01/13 - 12:32

we used to have "the meat draw" in the social club. Probably still do, ive not been for about 15 years

Madridista23 · 17/01/13 - 12:32

This is very common in the West Country. My sister often gets half a Lamb or Pig suitably jointed ready for the freezer. :cool:

UKMikey · 17/01/13 - 12:42

DaisyBumbleroot wrote: »

we used to have "the meat draw" in the social club. Probably still do, ive not been for about 15 years

A pub local to me used to hand out meat prizes for their quiz. It was some fifteen years ago though. It's a Tesco Express now.

[Deleted User] · 17/01/13 - 12:47

jsmith99 wrote: »

In the north-east they have "baccy runs". People are paid a small amount to get on a coach, be driven to Luxemburg, buy a couple of thousand cigarettes, or rolling tobacco, each (cash supplied), then back on the coach and back to the UK.

Well, so I've been told by relatives up there.

And you think this only happens in the North East?

dorydaryl · 17/01/13 - 12:47

Voynich wrote: »

Does the chicken go cheep?

I genuinely heard someone ask "Are these chickens going cheap" at the hot deli in Morrisons when they were pricing some of their stuff down near closing time. What was funny was the bloke didn't get the irony of his question. My boyfriend quipped "Well, they might have been doing a few hours ago!" and the guy still didn't get the joke.

[Deleted User] · 17/01/13 - 12:56

When I used to live in Christchurch, NZ a guy on the street once offered me a freezer full of meat for $100. I refused and he dropped the price to $50!

Still wasn't tempted...

curvybabes · 17/01/13 - 15:55

I know quite a few people who do this but they all work in a meat factory, they take orders every week get the meat on a friday and do the deliverys after work and make themselfs a tidy profit

Creamtea · 17/01/13 - 15:58

Is this a euphemism??

Aarghawasp! · 17/01/13 - 16:00

Back in the 70s my gran, mum and aunt used to chip together and buy meat in bulk. Jock the butcher would joint a cow, pig and lamb and they'd split it between them filling up the freezers. I also remember a duck hanging off the ceiling clothes pulley and they'd get rabbits from the farmer.

jsmith99 · 17/01/13 - 16:50

Shads62 wrote: »

And you think this only happens in the North East?

I doubt it, but my comment was about only the north east.

[Deleted User] · 17/01/13 - 17:33

Voynich wrote: »

Guys used to come around the pub with a bag of meat. I was never tempted.

There is a pub around my way near a gypsy site. You don't need to go shopping with the amount of stuff being peddled in it. It is like a market in there.

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