Has anyone else noticed the decline in food taste? Turkey at Thanksgiving, most got tossed, it was a consensus, "just not much flavor"... chicken lately, no flavor and then last weekend, I picked up some center cut pork loin chops, tender, but NO FLAVOR!!
I have put a boycott on the local groceries....on the hunt now for someone who knows how to grow a hog, and I think I have a good lead!
This leads me to my second rant! My last 2 heifers sent for butchering, I called my usual butcher about a month ahead of time, and he told me he was over 3 months out on taking anything in!!! One other local butcher had a fire, and was shut down... so I went to someone who I had never gone to (BIG MISTAKE), and I will never go to again. Worst processing I have ever seen, I have already sent out apology's to all customers who had purchased these animals, and offered 1/2 of the cost of this processing off of the next purchase..... I didn't know what else to do!!
If anyone remembers, the open heifer I had back in December, that I put out to fatten, her scheduled date at my (favorite) usual butcher is April 8th....unless he calls with a cancellation....ugh, had to modify her feed schedule now.
Meat at the store, in my opinion pretty much sucks, yet in my area it is getting harder and harder to work through the local butcher shops....
I guess consumers are getting smarter and buying from the local guy, rather than at the store..... I may be ranting, but in actuality, it is probably a very good thing for us small farmers who do sell direct. Now if we can just get some of the good butchers to expand their business ;-)
Michele
I have put a boycott on the local groceries....on the hunt now for someone who knows how to grow a hog, and I think I have a good lead!
This leads me to my second rant! My last 2 heifers sent for butchering, I called my usual butcher about a month ahead of time, and he told me he was over 3 months out on taking anything in!!! One other local butcher had a fire, and was shut down... so I went to someone who I had never gone to (BIG MISTAKE), and I will never go to again. Worst processing I have ever seen, I have already sent out apology's to all customers who had purchased these animals, and offered 1/2 of the cost of this processing off of the next purchase..... I didn't know what else to do!!
If anyone remembers, the open heifer I had back in December, that I put out to fatten, her scheduled date at my (favorite) usual butcher is April 8th....unless he calls with a cancellation....ugh, had to modify her feed schedule now.
Meat at the store, in my opinion pretty much sucks, yet in my area it is getting harder and harder to work through the local butcher shops....
I guess consumers are getting smarter and buying from the local guy, rather than at the store..... I may be ranting, but in actuality, it is probably a very good thing for us small farmers who do sell direct. Now if we can just get some of the good butchers to expand their business ;-)
Michele
