Subj : Fresh Meat
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Dec 31 2023 17:05:50

Hi Dave,

 DD> Humphrey's equivalent can be found in small town America more readily
 DD> than in the larger burgs. We have another butcher/meat market/grocer
 DD> in the past few years. Magro's opened in an former Eagle Stupormarkup
 DD> store - so they have more roomy aisles and carry lots more grocery and
 DD> sundry items. And they have a slaughtering operation on-site.

 RH> I'll have to check out Whole Foods and Wegman's. I know the latter does
 RH> do some specialty butchering but don't know if they go whole hog or
 RH> not.

 DD> Humphrey's does not have a slaughtering operation but they have
 DD> everything else. During deer season they advertise freee butchering of
 DD> your results if you donate 25% of the meat to soup
 DD> kitchens/breaddlines and/or homeless shelters.

Good for them! I don't know of any places around here that do anything
of that sort, but then too, I don't know any local butchers or hunters.
Organisations like those need all the help they can get and free food is
a big help.

 DD> We also have some chicken rustlers - Ciota & Foster - who supply
 RH>  local DD> markets and restaurants with fresh chicken. They do not sell
 RH>  directly DD> to te public, however.

 RH> Too bad. I remember years ago my folks got a buy on whole chickens,
 RH> don't remember how they got that deal but had roast chicken once a week
 RH> for some months. It was before they got their home freezer so they
 RH> rented space in the town's cold storage locker building.

 DD> My "olds" never did that. If we weren't keeping chickens and eating
 DD> from our flock my granddad or dad would visit a nearby farm and buy a
 DD> nice fat free-range hen for Sunday's dinner.

My dad was a white collar worker (local newspaper/free lance
photographer) so we didn't have any livestock except cats and dogs. I
have no idea how he got the chickens but there were a lot of them.

 DD> I'm not sure there are any surviving "locker plants" since home
 DD> freezers and refrigerators have become so affordable.

There may be some in the Amish/Mennonite areas of the country--those
folks don't have electricity on their farms.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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