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Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 11 5:27 pm Post subject: price of meat in town today.

went for a walk through town today and there is a shop there with a couple of special offers on,
1) whole sheep £3.50 per kg chopped into bits, its not going to be boned but you will get the legs and shoulders off and some of the good bits off berfore they chop it all, bones and all, into about 4cm chunks for curry
2) whole lamb £4.99 per kilo, as above
same place had 5kg of good looking oniond for 99p and asda had 5kg spuds for £2
I know its not going to be extensive reared, or UK or probably as tasty as it could be but thats a pretty cheap months worth of meat i thought.
with prices like that being offered in an East London suburb with one on the highest rates of reposesion on the cheapest houses in the capital its not hard to see why people go for quantity over quality.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 11 6:00 pm Post subject:
You'd also have to question whether it was legally aquired - all those rustled sheep have to go somewhere. £3-50 is about 10p more than market price at the moment (bearing in mind that those are liveweights - double them to give deadweight price).

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
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Location: Lampeter

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 11 6:10 pm Post subject:
Whats the normal price per kg in your area? What weights were they talking about?

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 11 6:13 pm Post subject:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Whats the normal price per kg in your area?

What weights were they talking about?

no idea on the weights, its just for any of the carcass they have hanging in the shop and i didnt bother going in to ask since im not going to be buying but if you are interested a will have a wander in tomorrow and ask and try and get a pic of the shop.

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
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Location: Lampeter

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 11 6:40 pm Post subject:
No interest,in other than the weights, £3.50 per kg,for bones is what i m thinking,it depends on how well their covered,that price for plain brokers-old sheep is not that cheap I d be suspect of the said Lamb price,they could very well be small mountain ewes,as no one is going to chop a prime lamb up like that.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 11 5:03 pm Post subject:
sounds well iffy at that price should be about twice that in a shop £6kg for lamb and £5.50 for mutton in west yorks

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 11 9:15 pm Post subject:
ok, some rubbish pics off my phone from 4 different shops in town today whole lamb £32.99 shin of beef diced lamb for curry diced goat minced beef the sort of butchers shop we have here

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 11 10:22 pm Post subject:

Pilsbury wrote:

minced beef

Is that some of Alison's yarn for sale?

gil
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 11 10:57 pm Post subject:
I think the lamb is pretty small. I know that when one of the farmers round here was selling his lambs to the halal market, it was the 'Euro Light Lamb' weight (whatever that was - used to be a specific weight/carcass category) they went at - so his small, lean hill lambs were in demand.

milkmaid

Joined: 04 Jan 2007
Posts: 551
Location: western isles

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 8:46 am Post subject:
that goat is serously cheap not sure how the hell you could raise it at that cost

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 8:48 am Post subject:

milkmaid wrote:

that goat is serously cheap not sure how the hell you could raise it at that cost

It won't be British that's how....

Kate

chicken feed

Joined: 27 Aug 2009
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 9:09 am Post subject:

Katieowl wrote:

milkmaid wrote:

that goat is serously cheap not sure how the hell you could raise it at that cost

It won't be British that's how....

Kate

that was my first thought too....................not that it matters the the masses the price comes first (which in todays economic climate its understandable)

milkmaid

Joined: 04 Jan 2007
Posts: 551
Location: western isles

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 9:10 am Post subject:

or the illegal meat trade it's pretty huge now ,it was always there but with price rises less people ask where it comes from

some chap got arrested this year ,he got 6 months for running an illegal slaughterhouse and get this a 20000 pond fine for using illegal workers ,something like that anyway, they were selling it cheap to butcher shops
trying to find the link but cannot

not saying it is just something to watch out for

Pel

Joined: 29 Mar 2008
Posts: 2366
Location: Sennybridge

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 9:27 am Post subject:

Since I rarely go in the butchers nearest to me (unless I'm in tregaron), I can only go with the lamb that is on a sign. We have a butchers by me that does half a lamb from £24, so Just under £50... that's his own lambs that he has reared for that price and the smalls one. So for a whole lamb £32.99, would still be very cheap round here.

Last edited by Pel on Tue Nov 22, 11 9:38 am; edited 1 time in total

milkmaid

Joined: 04 Jan 2007
Posts: 551
Location: western isles

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 9:30 am Post subject:
slaughter cost for a lamb about 15 pounds

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