Sudbury Butchers window display

BRACES of Bristol - Sauer 100 XTA Stainless Package
The deer man said:
Did I see this on Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman this evening about the butcher shop in Sudbury that had to take down it's window dressing?

P.S. The rabbits look like New Zealand Whites.
Click to expand...

It does seem to have hit the news, but for all the wrong reasons!
Selling game meat is great, but supporting out of season shooting of deer using a lamp and then denying it isn't!:banghead:
They will probably do quite well out of this whole fiasco sadly. I wonder if they want to buy some deer, I've got 7 in the chiller!:roll:
MS
 
My Missus has just told me that this might be featuring on th 'Loose Women' show shortly on ITV3 !:shock:
Not that I ever watch such shows!:roll::coat:
MS
 
murrayb said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-26321257

No mention on here about the hygiene issues!
Click to expand...

No but he did say:
"The produce on display was changed daily and all of it was for sale", he said.
Well that wasn't what he said when questioned about the deer hanging up! Apparently they were loaned by someone who's details he didn't have. They were not for sale, but just for display. The chap that loaned them had taken them back now. He had no idea who had shot them, etc...:roll:
May as well post the original picture now anyway.
Make your own minds up if there are any hygiene issues? Having had game birds hung up in a chiller before with guts in, I can assure you that the contents do not stay within! Fur and Feather hanging above fresh meat? Out of season Roe with feet in the fresh meat? You decide - I give up!
View attachment 38507
MS:banghead:
 
Unbelievable the stupidity of some people. But as my old man always says there is no legislation that covers F***wits. I wonder if anybody else has made complaints to the environmental health about this "butcher". This may be worth a punt with the "freedom of information act" to assess the danger to the public??
 
Monkey Spanker said:
No but he did say:
"The produce on display was changed daily and all of it was for sale", he said.
Well that wasn't what he said when questioned about the deer hanging up! Apparently they were loaned by someone who's details he didn't have. They were not for sale, but just for display. The chap that loaned them had taken them back now. He had no idea who had shot them, etc...:roll:
May as well post the original picture now anyway.
Make your own minds up if there are any hygiene issues? Having had game birds hung up in a chiller before with guts in, I can assure you that the contents do not stay within! Fur and Feather hanging above fresh meat? Out of season Roe with feet in the fresh meat? You decide - I give up!
View attachment 38507
MS:banghead:
Click to expand...

MS. Although it might not be interesting enough for most newspapers I can 't help thinking that one or two might be interested in an independent piece entitled

'Do you know what your are eating? - the real issues of the Butcher of Sudbury'

I'm sure you would be up to the job?!
 
Tackleberry270 said:
MS. Although it might not be interesting enough for most newspapers I can 't help thinking that one or two might be interested in an independent piece entitled

'Do you know what your are eating? - the real issues of the Butcher of Sudbury'

I'm sure you would be up to the job?!
Click to expand...

The chap that raised the initial report to the FSA/Police/Wildlife Crimes has already written a reply to the Mail Online in an attempt to uncover the true facts of the whole story. It will only surface if it is deemed to sell more papers though I suspect?
It is a sad fact that many local council food hygiene departments seem to know very little about the rules and regs associated with game meat. I'm sure if I had a skinned deer next to an unskinned one in my chiller they would have something to say about it, and yet they seem oblivious to what we see here before us. Worse still is that they are not even in a chiller!! I have lost an awful lot of faith in a few agencies that have failed to act accordingly over this episode. I'm not sure it is over yet though and suspect that the massive publicity received nationally may in fact bite them in the ass! I'm actually quite surprised that the 'Anti's' haven't had a pop yet. Either way, I doubt we've heard the last of it yet as they are quite clearly bonkers!:cuckoo:
MS
 
Just seen this on BBC appears a butchers window display containing a mix of pig heads, mallard, hares, rabbits,pheasants(all in fur/feathers) is causing a little of a stir amongst some shoppers in the town.

Also when you page down the article the next picture contains a skin on deer.

Nice to see game for sale "au naturle" so to speak however might not comply to some regs!

Anybody on the site a regular to Sudbury?

D
 
I believe that he is now displaying his wares once more, there was a shop in the Derbyshire town of Bakewell (famous for its puddings) that as far back as I can remember displayed lots of game outside, he was stopped from doing it so as not to offend the poor towny visitors to this little peak district town, even intervention by the duchess of Devonshire could not holt its demise, very sad to see, I think it is a boring book shop or something now.
 
The trouble in my opinion is not with the butchers display but the fact that the majority of people have lost connection with where there food actually comes from!
Unfortunatley it is this loss of connection is the main reason why the "horse meat scandal" was allowed to occur!
 
scubadog said:
The trouble in my opinion is not with the butchers display but the fact that the majority of people have lost connection with where there food actually comes from!
Unfortunatley it is this loss of connection is the main reason why the "horse meat scandal" was allowed to occur!
Click to expand...

Couldn't agree more but at the same time I think there are encouraging signs of change. I was pleased to hear the butcher say he thought for every one complaint he had 300 encouraging him. My 4 year old is fascinated by deer, game birds and loves feeding lambs, hens and pigs but also loves eating them all with full knowledge and discussion of where the meat comes from and I am proud that he can appreciate both. I don't think its got so bad as not to be able to do anything about it.
 
Many on this site remember the days when sides of beef, lamb carcases, poultry etc were hung in the open outside butchers shops. strangely the streets didn't seem to be strewn with people dying from food poison. It could have been something to do with people knowing how to cook their food and knowing the products they were buying!
 
I remember seeing the odd rabbit in skin in butchers shops windows and as a child being intrigued by them not shocked, went to the new forest last year and saw a butchers window with roe and fallow skull mounts on the walls along with a couple of stuffed rabbits hanging away to one side of the counter and even though we were on holiday and eat venison every week when at home I couldn't resist popping in for a chat and buying sausages for tea .If there was an out of season roe doe as in monkey spankers post im sure the chat I would have had would have been a lot different.
 
Hornet said:
I believe that he is now displaying his wares once more, there was a shop in the Derbyshire town of Bakewell (famous for its puddings) that as far back as I can remember displayed lots of game outside, he was stopped from doing it so as not to offend the poor towny visitors to this little peak district town, even intervention by the duchess of Devonshire could not holt its demise, very sad to see, I think it is a boring book shop or something now.
Click to expand...
Think it was "Siddalls" or something very similar. Remember it well.
Yes, very sad !
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Bank Holiday Muntjac.
Replies
17
Views
748
Chris Richardson
C
That’s not a deer!?
Replies
9
Views
2K
Mike1979
M
Two Days Two Rounds
Replies
0
Views
325
Cris
C
Non cleared land
2 3
Replies
42
Views
5K
Ratel
Ratel
All well but a salutary reminder.
2
Replies
34
Views
2K
NoIDeer
NoIDeer
Browning X Bolt 2 Cashback
Back
Top