Many Christmases Ago We Used To See Turkeys Hanging Up In Butchers Windows

[gollob]

Are there any fresh turkeys still to be seen which are still as they say still on the wing

[carolegif]

Oxford indoor market used to have them,but they would be picketed by vegans now!

[Jackdaw33]

I remember when butchers had sawdust-covered floors and meat carcasses hanging on hooks. No longer.

[rockyracoon]

Butcher! What's a butcher?

[Rockrose]

Sitting back and taking bets on how long before this turns into a anti EU thread.

[maggiebee]

Ha ha - when I was working in Albania I said to a friend that I would like to buy a chicken. She took me to the open air market and said just to pick one out. Problem is I would have had to kill and pluck/gut it. Changed my mind.

[ummmm]

We still see meat hanging on hooks.

[Jackdaw33]

We have just the one butcher's in our town, long-established. At one time there were butchers everywhere.

[Georgiesmum]

It was normal to see rabbitsts hung up in butchers windows too(with their heads all covered)

[Georgiesmum]

.... and live eels in the fish shop too, ready for the fishmonger to chop their heads off before selling to a customer.

[ummmm]

We have a local butchers. No fishmonger though. We used to have an amazing fish market. It's a bus station now.

[rockyracoon]

We do have a butcher, but he's more of a sausage seller, and only open 3 days a week. Not worth finding a parking space for, though the sausages are quite good.

[Old_Geezer]

Well Rose, It's all the EU's fault, and nothing to do with Brexit.

Racoon, they are the one's you see in the supermarket standing behind the meat counter.

I reckon if the birds are on the wing, yet hung, there must be a lot of flying feathers around.

[ummmm]

My nephew used to work in a butchers and he said the packed chickens when they went out of date, they'd sniff them and re-label them. It kinda put me off.

[retrocop]

Plenty of hung rabbits in the butchers round here.I’ts the Maltese National dish.

[-SharonA-]

The ethnic shops round here have whole goats and lamb hanging up!

[jno]

just fresh quinoas hanging in shops around here.

[kvalidir]

In Ludlow there are a lot of old school butchers that do fabulous things like wild boar and venison and you see everything hanging up there, pheasant, rabbits etc and there's a proper fish monger in Tenbury Wells which is nearby too. I need to go and have a mooch down both before Christmas x

[naomi24]

Lots where we live in the country - and chickens, rabbits, pheasant, etc.