[4yearlurker]

Actually,those folks were called butchers. Hunks and chunks,strips and squares. Anymore meat cutting is like slicing lunch meat.

[snugs]

Indeed what passes for a butcher nowadays bears no relation to even 30 years ago.

The supermarkets I think are part of the reason with their butcher's section or counter and the youngster behind who they call a butcher. I doubt unless the various bits of meat were labeled half the time the lad would know what was what bit of the animal probably would not even know what animal.

Same goes for the fishmonger. It was painful when I was served last Saturday the young lad had to keep looking at the labels when I asked for various type of fish.