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Pre dinner festivities!

this is the same as a city person moving down the road to a farmer and complaining about the smell of manuer! the sad thing is, its not the older folks doing the complaining, its the 30 and 40 year olds. its just sad! hell, you can't even put sand in a playground anymore, broken glass and hidden rocks. we're killing parks in favour of new subdivisions and wonder why kids are getting fatter and lazier!

people today are so scared of the what ifs that they just give their kids a video game controller or cell phone and leave them be. in 10 years we're all going to have a personal bubble and VR class rooms so no one has to go outside ever!

miracle mile, or up to Alaska

won't find anything better than the original Zebco Cardinal 4 reels!

wish i coulda made it! this Christmas rush at work has me working late nights!

a 3 or 5 wt fly rod and reel would be awesome!

love the pictures! glad to see you passing on your knowledge!

this fish are nice, but i love the dam and last pic of the river!

We used sawdust back in the 60's / 70's and I still have the wood meat block from my father's store, that adorns the center of our kitchen here at home. Complete with the concave grove that I cleaned into it as a kid with the wire block brush. Not sure how we got out alive... can't cut on wood anymore.. can't put sawdust on the floor. Anyone ever notice how grungy that nylon cutting board you have now gets.. and that's what has to be used as a cutting surface.

we've got one of those at work as well, solid maple, im 6'4 and its been cleaned down to about knee height in the middle. the nylon are nice, but one slice with the knife and its almost impossible to clean it properly, we use a pressure washer to clean em. still use the metal block brush for the wood block though

If I'm in the city I will choose a Mom and Pop butchers shop every time now with meat prices through the roof. Even at a few cents more a pound. I can't ask the butcher a question or cut my steaks or roasts to my liking when I'm staring at into the display at the big stores. I can at the small shops because the butcher is standing right there. When I see a small handful of stewing beef for 6 bucks like last week at Zehrs I want to scream. I'm surprised they don't have security guards there keeping an eye on the meat. Actually shoplifting meat is something common now I'm told, the crackheads and misfits are up early and are sold out by 9AM in Hamilton. Apparently they go in on a scooter early and fill up, no one wants to mess with an old lady on a scooter.

 

Any one here remember the butcher shops that had 3" of sawdust on the floor?

we are one of those shops. we used to use sawdust way back, then switched to cornmeal, then the health department made us switch to this crap almost like a fine kitty litter, and we told to take it and shove it, and we went back to using cornmeal, and still use it on the floors

 

It's buyer beware at butcher shops as well. Many of them are very overpriced for what you're getting and in no way does buying from a local butcher guarantee quality like you're implying.

 

 

Seeing as you made the comment about chicken farmers raising prices "just because", which is 100% false, it makes me wonder how many butchers put higher prices on their meat "just because" as a way to increase profits. Many people think they're getting a better cut of meat simply because it carries a higher price and it would be easy to take advantage of this...

i will challenge you, go to sobeys, metro, superstore, get their prices for meats, then come in to the shop i work at and compare, its almost exactly the same pricing. i remember seeing a flyer 3 weeks for a grocery chain, forget which one unfortunately, selling STEWING BEEF for $24/kg we sell ours at $14.31/kg

if you want to compare heres some of our pricing, keeping in mind this is Ontario grown, no growth hormones, no antibiotics, free range AAA grade beef, you have to compare apples to apples afterall

Ribeye (Delmonico Steaks) $35.25/kg 15.99/lb

NY Strips $33.04/kg 14.99/lb

T-Bone $29.90/kg $13.51/lb

Top Sirloin $21.80/kg $9.90lb

Stew: $14.31/kg $6.49/lb

Ground Beef $12.10/kg $5.49/lb

Bone In Pork Chops $10.98/kg 4.98/lb

Butterfly Chops $14.31/kg $6.49/lb

Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts $17.59/kg $7.98/lb

Pork BACK Ribs $16.31/kg $7.39/lb

This weeks Sobeys Flyer

NY Strips and Prime Rib Steaks $14.99/lb on sale regular 17.59/lb! Thats $1.50/lb more than our ribeyes and $3.50/lb MORE than our NY Strips

https://www.sobeys.com/en/flyer?utf8=%E2%9C%93&products%5Bq%5D=&products%5Bdepartment_id%5D=43

the stereotypes about small butcher shops being more expensive just is not true, we have to stay competative and almost on par with the chain stores, otherwise we could lose that valuable customer base

We have had some of Sam's meat.........It's far superior to most grocery stores and independent butcher shops. It's at the top end of Choice and close to Prime.

again, its buyer beware at these places, USDA or South American beef, and mechanically tenderized.

was out on the ganny one day, had to fart, well, it wasn't a fart. I managed to get my waders off in time, my shorts however, didn't make it. was a great ride home to whitby, half naked, was hoping i wouldn't get pulled over.

last year, my dad came up from sarnia to do a weekend salmon fish on lake o, we get up nice and early, have a good breakfast, then head out. stopped as the gas station to fill up the boat, my dad gets out, walks by the boat on the trailer and then stops dead, ask him whats wrong, and he gets this stupid look on his face, and says 'for a minute i thought we had lost the boat' he had walked past it thinking it was still his truck

then while out on the lake, after landing a nice chinook, and resetting the downriggers, my dad gets all frustrated and upset, ask him whats wrong he says ' well sh!t, i can't find ,my sunglasses, i think i set them on the back and knocked them over board' i said what glasses are you looking for, he goes 'my polarized ones, i can't find the dammed things' i look at him and say what, you mean the ones you're wearing on your face? he just starts laughing and goes yea, those ones, i need a drink!

Pretty sure they get their beef from highland packers in Stoney creek. And it way better beef than anything I have ever seen in a grocery store. Like I said. My family raises our own, it hangs for 3 weeks, and it's delicious. but when I need some extras dipietros is where it's at.

says on their ad, canada aa OR usda

not knocking them, just making an observation

my grandfather passed away 10 years ago, and it wasn't until my grandmother passed away 4 years ago and we were cleaning out their house, that i found my grandfathers old fly fishing gear, and found out that he was pretty good at it. i kept the 2 rods and 2 reels, and took up fly fishing that spring, using his old rod and reel, landed my first steelhead on the fly.

we never talked about fishing when he was alive, but i like to think he was smiling down on me that day

a good butcher shop is worth its weight in gold.

 

I used to pay about 10% more then Safeway, but I got cuts exactly how I wanted and the difference meat is almost unreal.

 

go to a good butcher for chicken breast and cook it next to what safeway sells.

 

UNREAL DIFFERENCE in quality of cut/food

100% agree, the Wal-marts of the world are making it tougher and tougher for small shops like us to hang around since we can't touch their pricing, we just have to make up for it with superior product and customer service.

When I don't have any in the freezer we shop here. Again buy in bulk when it's on sale. Always a nice steak on sale, that top sirloin at 6.99 a lb. Ain't to shabby. Tbones are often on at 6 bucks as well as sew York strips. Best part they cut it to your liking.

 

http://www.dipietros.ca/#!dipietros-weekly-flyer/c1e6k

no thanks, consider this, we can't buy our Ontario Shortloins, where the T-bone and new york strips come from, for $6, let alone sell them at that price.

not to turn this into an advertisement, but if you're looking for a quality butcher shop in the Durham Region

We sell AAA or better, no growth hormones added, no antibiotics, free range beef, pork, lamb, chicken, and turkey. beef is aged a minimum of 21 days, chicken is air chilled instead of water chilled, and not pumped! we make our own sausages. everything can be custom cut and wrapped located in the middle of Oshawa. Been in Business since 1956

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Buckingham-Meat-Market/256089420768

Growth hormones where banned decades ago

in Canada, yes. still goes on with American and South American livestock. With supermarkets buying the cheapest they can find, its often livestock from these countries.

You guys need to realise that in this economy all the farmers have sell to a conglomerate that sets the prices based on marketing profiles.

In other words the days of mom and pop farms gong to market is over !

And it is not a fair market for farmers as a matter of fact its pathetic .!

The only people making enough money to retire on are the conglomerate executives.

not true, we still buy from farms that are owner/operators, only pork is from a conglomerate. our beef comes from a single farm, chicken from a single farm, lamb from a single farm, and its all 100% ontario product, free range(not organic), no growth hormones

When your buying side ribs it's 1/2 bone and gristle, or more, don't buy it. And if any butcher says they throw it out they lie, that's what sausages are made of, sticky pork. Just today I saw a small piece of outside round, not inside, outside, maybe 6" long, 4" across and 1/2" thick. $5.75 at Food Town in Cayuga and we have beef farms this way. WHAT!!!! I eat that much taste testing. I don't know how a family with kids can even afford medium ground beef today buying from the grocery store. Last week whole chickens on at $1.99, bought 10. Once and a while pork loin on at $1.99, bought as many as they had in the display and waited for the butcher to package 5 more. Cut them in 3 pound pieces. When they have eye of the round on sale buy them all, add some fat I get from the butcher and make ground beef. The boys and I are splitting on a 1/2 beef next week from a local guy. Who can afford food today, veggies ain't cheap either. $3.99 for Red Peepers, anything imported is nuts, come on man. 4 bucks for rye bread??? I told my wife last month if this keeps up we will be skinny soon.

 

Just today a local farmer told us they are concerned with cattle rustlers believe me or not. Think about it, it might be more lucrative than selling dope and legal to have possession. I can hear it now, " Your Honor the accused was in possession of a pig with the intent to traffic".

we use Ontario FFNR (Farm Fresh, Naturally Raised) pork butts for our sausages, we don't sell side ribs at all, not a big enough market for them, people would much rather have the nice back ribs

yes food prices have gone up, no question. I can see in Yellowknife prices being higher due to transportation. . . .Fish is a lot better, but down here we get shaft for fish.

 

Here I can can a difference of a $1 a lb just by going from Fortinos to NoFrills and they are owned by the same company!

Something is wrong here, just like gas prices, differ by a wide margin from a one area to another.

 

We do buy ribs as another member suggested when they are at around $2 a lb.

 

I've had a good butcher for 46 years and he keeps telling me buy ribeye steaks in the winter! wonder why?

 

We are at the mercy of the "providers" and they can set prices as they wish as long as it meets their $ needs.

just don't buy them around holidays in the winter, places cook the prime rib roasts instead of steaks

I am a butcher of 15 years, beef prices have gone nuts due the harsh winter, in combination with the states buying our cattle. now, that normally wouldn't be an issue, however, farmers have been keeping animals meant for slaughter, as breeding animals, therefore reducing the number of cattle going to market.

for instance, ground beef has gone from 8.77/kg to 12.10/kg

not sure why pork has gone up, but it hasn't gone up too badly, not like the beef, but most suspect the piglet disease, as well as cost of feed.

and f course, chicken farmers seeing that beef and pork have gone up, have also increased their prices to get their'cut' of this crazyness

Some guy kills a fish and there is public outrage. The man is held accountable for his actions and is punished.

 

Proof of political corruption surfaces and the public could care less. The politicians laugh and shrug it off because they know nobody really cares.

 

 

 

 

It's good that he was charged and all, but I really wish people would direct some energy towards more relevant and serious issues.

preservation of natural resources and wildlife isn't a serious issue to you?

Sure makes one wonder about Canadian Tire and these 'deals'. They are still making good money on these products. how big is there markup to begin with. seems pretty dam high tbh

Also for anyone on these so called contracts from cable/satellite providers, as of Jan 23 2015, the CRTC says you can cancel a contract with no penalty that day, no 30 day notice, no double billing from last month of one company and the first month of the new company