Posted on 02/23/2014 5:48:30 PM PST by dennisw
JBS Family Butchers spent hours each week perfecting window displays But it has been hit with anonymous hate mail and people hurling abuse Unplucked birds and pig or deer heads were hung up in the shopfront Assistant manager of butcher's in Suffolk says staff have been stunned
For more than 100 years, butchers in the market town of Sudbury have proudly displayed their meats in their shop windows.
But now one has been forced to stop hanging game such as pheasants, partridges and rabbits in his shopfront after a vicious campaign, blamed on townies who have recently moved in.
Staff at JBS Family Butchers, which has sawdust on the floor and takes great pride in its link to local suppliers and the countryside way of life, spent hours every week perfecting their window displays featuring meat and game.
Unplucked birds and the occasional pig or deer head were hung up in its shopfront in a small precinct in the Suffolk town.
But it has reluctantly had to remove the display after it became the target of a campaign including anonymous hate mail and people hurling abuse in the shop.
More...
Others wrote to the local papers and posted remarks on Facebook calling for a boycott of the shop and its neighbours.
Assistant manager Richard Nicholson, 25, said staff had been stunned.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I've heard "townie" used roughly synonymous with "chav" - in other words, an antisocial youth.
What was the occasion for that picture?
Just deer season. They hang outside as they’re being processed. Buck Poles are pretty common around here during deer season.
Dibs on the backstraps. :-)
“Ben Mowles, 34, said the needless display of multiple mutilated carcasses had stopped him taking his 12-year-old daughter to the nearby sweet shop.”
Oh yeah, traumatic. Yeah.
“Mother-of-three Kirsty Trevatt, 34, said: Why can they not be like other butchers and put the meat that is skinned and prepared in the window?”
-Yes, because your little precious should grow up thinking meat comes wrapped in plastic on a styrofoam platter.
“Keith Lewis, 35, a petrol station worker who moved to Sudbury three years ago, told the Daily Mail: Their display looks more like a scene from a horror movie. They even had a line of squirrels across a bar. Who eats squirrel?”
-Hey, don’t knock it ‘till you’ve tried it pal.
Weenies. Bunch of weenies.
ahhhh now that actually makes some sense
I was once living with a friend on his great aunt’s farm. She had passed away, but all of her cookbooks and all of her other stuff we’re still in the house. I often cooked recipes from Aunt Aida’ older edition of The Joy of Cooking.
It had sections on how to prepare Opossum... rabbit... but most notable was the illustrated section on how to dress a squirrel.
I was at my brother’s house and noted his wife had a newer copy of Joy of Cooking... leafed through it and sure enough...that section had been removed. I found the revisionist trick, just a bit offensive. If I were the author, I would have been furious.
Why am I envisioning some sorta Japanese cartoon character mascot type thing on the packaging? Like as in Hello Kitty brand raw chicken livers.
Hello Kitty was the first to come to mind.
Can a people this stupid have enough common sense to know hoe the wipe their arse?
When I was serving in the 6th fleet USN, we anchored off of Pireaus, Greece, near Athens, in 1961. The meat markets there all had gutted and skinned cats and dogs hanging in the windows, along with chickens. No refrigeration, so they were apparently in high demand or they would otherwise spoil. .....Street vendors had open grills with kebobs that had been marinated and spiced. Very tasty, and turned out to be dog meat.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.