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Online butchers.
I used to use Westin gourmet, but now they have merged with muscle food the quality has gone down hill well in fact it's a totally different product.
Anyone recommend anywhere to order steak online? |
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Anyone recommend anywhere to order steak online?
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It seems the posters above don't remember a time when you would buy meat from an independent butcher rather than the supermarket meat section/butcher.
I also would appreciate a recommenation for an online butcher rather than a supermarket. OP - I have bought sausages from "Supreme Sausages" online and they are delicious. |
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I used to use Westin gourmet, but now they have merged with muscle food the quality has gone down hill well in fact it's a totally different product.
Anyone recommend anywhere to order steak online? http://www.ludlowfoodcentre.co.uk/Co...DepartmentID=5 http://www.longhornbeef.co.uk/our-beef http://www.donaldrussell.com/meat.html |
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It seems the posters above don't remember a time when you would buy meat from an independent butcher rather than the supermarket meat section/butcher.
I also would appreciate a recommenation for an online butcher rather than a supermarket. OP - I have bought sausages from "Supreme Sausages" online and they are delicious. why not just go to your local butchers? |
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why not just go to your local butchers?
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This presumes I have a local butcher which unfortunately I don't.
Sad really. |
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This presumes I have a local butcher which unfortunately I don't.
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I'm genuinely shocked. I didn't think there was anywhere except in the most sparsely populated parts of the UK where there wasn't a butcher withing about 5 miles.
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I'm genuinely shocked. I didn't think there was anywhere except in the most sparsely populated parts of the UK where there wasn't a butcher withing about 5 miles.
Oh my god sorry!!!! Apologies I didn't mean to cause such distress so early in your day. Having said that I have noticed that you post in various threads about being shocked/surpised at things many of us have happened upon. I live in N London. There are no shops close to me (except Nissa/Newsagents). The closest shops are supermarkets (3 different ones), within a couple of miles. To get to the nearest butcher I would have ot drive and then find parking which is not something I look forward to doing. The butchers in question are fairly basic and stock large amounts of cheap but good regular supermarket like stock. I didn't contribute to this thread to explain my shopping preferences so I do not wish to get into a discussion about various means of transport I could take to get me to a local butcher. I merely asked if somebody could recomment an online butcher that they might use/have used. |
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I'm genuinely shocked. I didn't think there was anywhere except in the most sparsely populated parts of the UK where there wasn't a butcher withing about 5 miles.
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TBH, I did not know there was such a thing as online butchers, we have local butchers that will deliver, but they are normaly pretty limited to where they deliver. But saying all of that, I just had a look at one of our local butchers webpage and they seem to deliver to different places, not just here.
It does make me worry about meat being delivered by couriers. Anyway i will put a link to them here as they have been in the city for a very long time and they have a high reputation of being good quality and their pies are to die for so I have been told. They are a bit far from me to go to as i do not drive, But now i know they deliver, I may look at buying a few pies for my dad and getting them delivered, got to be better than the stuff he gets from supermarkets. Anyway the link is here; |
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Have you tried Robert Dyas?
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But now i know they deliver, I may look at buying a few pies for my dad and getting them delivered, got to be better than the stuff he gets from supermarkets. Meat from a butcher would more than likely be at the cheaper end of the scale...why? Because they have to compete with supermarkets. |
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Meat from a butcher would more than likely be at the cheaper end of the scale...why? Because they have to compete with supermarkets.
In the area where I live, I think every decent sized village has a butcher even if they've lost many of the other shops. North London doesn't exactly seem to be short of them either: www.yell.com/s/butchers-north+london.html |
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I don't think that's quite logical. I think that most butchers realise that their strength is providing locally sourced meat and first-class service. In the town where I live, there are two butchers which are never short of customers in spite of three competing supermarkets. Some people regularly travel about 18 miles to a village butcher renowned for its award-winning sausages.
In the area where I live, I think every decent sized village has a butcher even if they've lost many of the other shops. North London doesn't exactly seem to be short of them either: www.yell.com/s/butchers-north+london.html I do not have a local butcher close to me. Do you understand how big North London is? Sad representation of what some might think of as non city person's pov unfortunately. |
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All meat ends up in the slaughterhouse, whether it is free range or factory farmed. The reason why I went vegan was not just for ethical reasons, but mistrust in the meat and dairy industries (horsemeat ring any bells?).
Meat from a butcher would more than likely be at the cheaper end of the scale...why? Because they have to compete with supermarkets. You are right about local butchers often cutting quality/prices to match the supermarkets (and not all supermarket meat is poor). In my local town we have about eight butchers but only one is the real deal selling very high quality meat which is often locally sourced. Now, if I can get him to stock salt marsh Lamb I won't have a two hour round trip to buy it. |
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Do you understand how big North London is?
Come on, you're bragging about living in London whilst crying that you cannot get to a butchers! I'm a Londoner born and bred, don't try to kid me. You'll be claiming north London has no running water free of cholera next. And that's before we address the Aldis and Lidls, that all sell affordable dry-aged fillet, T-bone, rib-eye and sirloin steaks! |
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So there isn't a single butchers in north London? A "city person" would understand the concept of jumping a £1.50 London bus to get to one.
Come on, you're bragging about living in London whilst crying that you cannot get to a butchers! I'm a Londoner born and bred, don't try to kid me. You'll be claiming north London has no running water free of cholera next. And that's before we address the Aldis and Lidls, that all sell affordable dry-aged fillet, T-bone, rib-eye and sirloin steaks! Where did I brag? Weird! Please go ahead and read what you choose to without refering to the actual details. Enjoy yourself |
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I live in a Cumbrian village and we have b* all near us. But 8 miles away in Appleby there is an absolutely brilliant butchers. You can really taste the difference compared to something bought in a major supermarket (and compared to most high st butchers). He sells meat from local farms and it is amazing. I would rather have less of a premium product than more of an inferior one.
Good old style butchers are getting harder to find these days. For me the sign of a good butcher is not having trays of meat cuts - like a zillion chops - on display. Plus a really good butcher will know where your meat comes from, advise on cooking and also mince your chosen piece of meat (I don't know if any will do that these days).
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Check out Farmer's Choice. Top quality free-range meat (and fish and other stuff) from known and named sources. We've had an account with them for 29 years now, and the quality has never wavered. Based in Hampshire, they deliver (frozen) across the UK. You can just buy individual items, or, like us, set up an account and order in bulk every few months to fill the freezer.
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