A great little show on BBC Radio London aired last week to coincide with the Meat Traders Journal “Best Butchers Shop 2012″. This is the award that I won last year for managing the best shop in the South of England. Ed, the editor of MTJ has done a great job plugging the trade, nice one mate and thanks also to Robert Elms. Click this link or cut and paste below.
http://www.meatinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/13424/__Audio:_London_butchers_the_focus_for_BBC_radio.html
Charlie the Butcher.
Well, meat is making the front cover of music albums. Yes it’s true. The Victorian English Gentlemens Club have released an album called “Bag of Meat”
I’ve not listened to the album but it has good reviews. I hope it’s a chopping good album. Sorry it’s the best I could think of.
Charlie the Butcher.
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Cheap laugh ……. you couldn’t make it up !!!
Charlie the Butcher.
The Tamworth Two. Well, where do I start.
12 years ago two Tamworth pigs escaped. It was in January, 1998 that the pair fled from a Wiltshire abattoir, forcing a fence and swimming across the River Avon. They spent a week on the run, searching back gardens and vegetable patches for food, before being rounded up. With a huge media scrum around the story, the two Tamworths became called “The Tamworth Two”.
They hit the headlines and had tv crews rushing to Wiltshire to cover the story. After the media stories it was decided not to send them to the slaughter house and they missed the butcher’s block but ended up at the Rare Breeds Centre in Kent which is a great place. They were nicknamed Butch and Sundance. But sadly the famous Butch has been put to rest and not for the bacon sarnie lovers, but due to bad health.
Farm manager Davy McColm said: “Butch was always the livelier of the two, the more physically active. We knew it was serious because in the end she would just stand there and let us examine her without causing a fuss.”
‘She was chronically ill and was not responding to treatment. The vets could not say for certain what was wrong with her, but the prime suspect is liver cancer. Sadly, it reached the point where it was in the animal’s best interests to put her to sleep. Considering she was destined for the chop at six months, she had a good innings.’
So if you are ever passing pop in a give her partner Sundance a pat and cheer her up.
RIP Butch.
Charlie the Butcher.
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If you are not already aware of this special week it is “National Butchers Week 2010″. It is a great week which aims to promote all things butchery and is now in its third year. It is great that the small high street butchers shops are able to celebrate and be proud to be butchers. At the Market we are making a special “Butchers Boozey Banger” …. made with Sam Smiths ale, mustard and pork. I started the week by waking up with a huge Meantime Beer hangover but it is only butchers week once a year. If you are not aware of your local butchers shop check out www.findabutcher.co.uk
Keep your eyes peeled for special events in your local butchers and from my heart “Happy Butchers Week”.
Charlie the Butcher.
Here is a little chopped down video of me in action.
Charlie the Butcher.
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Me sharing the love of scotch eggs and fry ups. Check out my “Hang outs” for my favourite cafes.
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