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I'd agree with you, however having just been up the town at lunchtime, the local butchers, Rooks, are selling whole leg of lamb for £29.95!
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
although I am quite lucky as I have a rather fine game butcher less than a mile from my house, and 2 good ones near work that are always willing to recommend a good cheaper cut. They are not very posh places at all, I don't live anywhere fancy, but the meat is great. We also have the posh butchers in the local villages. They do charge a lot more, but everyone wants the select cuts from them.
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So many questions about that.
A Grand Deception if ever there was one.
- In Hampstead London NW3 there was a superbly audacious crime about 12 years ago.
At around 8pm long after council offices are closed a number of large lorries,low loader and diggers together with a huge crew of hard hatted men in Hi-vis turn up and diligently put out all the work in progress and ROAD CLOSED signs together with a few diversion signs etc . They closed a whole side road ( Willoughby road or Downshire Hill I think ).
A few residents mumbled about the inconvenience .They worked right through the night everybody assuming that they were a large highways contractor.
By early morning the entirety of both Antique Yorkstone pavements ( about 400m on each side)had been lifted and removed.
Of course,it was a pure theft and they were a criminal operation.
Where do you best hide a tree................answer;in a Forest !
Reclaimed Cathedral grade Yorkstone flagstones sell for £120 per square meter and they made away with about 1600 sq m
with a resale value of about £200k.
I would imagine the Piano was a similar story - there have been jobs done like this for a bet .
I hear what you're saying Wez, and there's no doubt that Rook's lamb leg will be very good indeed, they always are, but the point I'm making here is why are there the huge variances in the prices? That happens at Rook's, too. It's not just the supermarkets.
You have me on your latter point.
I suppose it comes down to the special offer culture we live in.
If special offers were the end result batched processes earlier in production the supermarkets would have managed them out totally by now. They put a hell of a lot of effort into efficient stock management. They plan to be able to provide the offers. I am sure you occasionally get an offer when someone has made a mistake and over-ordered, but they will learn from that to ensure it doesn't happen again.
My butchers are consistent on price but still have big signs they rotate outside which new customers would assume are special offers. Its actually their regular price. Although they do sell off rabbits rather cheaply when they have a good haul. They know how many they need to butcher and freeze to maintain the stock levels they need. The rest go for about £1 each as long as you don't mind skinning them.
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I love lamb but the fluctuating is rather confusing. I would use a local butcher but there isn't one.
Also unfortunately anything I cook ends up tasting crap.
I'm lucky to be supplied with Welsh saltmarsh lamb from my brother in law's farm. It tastes superb and is extremely tender. It's sold in the local butcher, I'll find out the price. I buy most meat from the butcher apart from the odd steak from Lidl.
Here my top butcher tip..... ask the butcher to get you in some ox cheeks. It's a cheap cut and you get a lot of meat for your money. If you stew if for a few hours after marinating it overnight in beer or wine, it's delicious.
Good grief, yes..corned beef used to be one of the cheapest cold meats you could get, next to spam. Outrageous price these days, even sliced topside is cheaper.
Tongue, on the other hand, now we're taking. I love tongue!