Where Do you Buy your Meat?

For Pork products my go to is a local chain "Standard Market". They carry Compac Duroc ribs, pork butt etc.
For Brisket - SRF.
My local butcher also had SRF ribeyes and ribeye cap pinwheel steaks and SRF Hotdogs in stock most of the time.

fishlessman said:

theres maybe 3 or 4 dozen descent butchershops near me and maybe more than 2 dozen supermarkets all within a 10 to 15 minute drive that i dont think about it anymore. i dont even shop for more than 2 days worth of food atmost. i dont think i could count all the small grocery places nearby

the regulars are market basket, mckinnons meats, thwaites market, butcherboy, brown and brudnicks, haverhill beef, raymonds farm, shaws farm, and aldis.  one of the closest is restaurant depot and i have not even been in the store, sams im not going to, bj's is ok but i dont really like the place, the area is so saturated that even costco hasnt moved in (i dont think they can compete with the loyalty that marketbasket customers give marketbasket)

i would never mail order meat but have thought about just having it delivered to the house by one of the farms, they are still in the milk delivery business

then theres the halal guy with the lambs

That is a luxury to have some many butcher shops nearby. Its an out of the way drive for me.

northGAcock said:

fishlessman said:

theres maybe 3 or 4 dozen descent butchershops near me and maybe more than 2 dozen supermarkets all within a 10 to 15 minute drive that i dont think about it anymore. i dont even shop for more than 2 days worth of food atmost. i dont think i could count all the small grocery places nearby

the regulars are market basket, mckinnons meats, thwaites market, butcherboy, brown and brudnicks, haverhill beef, raymonds farm, shaws farm, and aldis.  one of the closest is restaurant depot and i have not even been in the store, sams im not going to, bj's is ok but i dont really like the place, the area is so saturated that even costco hasnt moved in (i dont think they can compete with the loyalty that marketbasket customers give marketbasket)

i would never mail order meat but have thought about just having it delivered to the house by one of the farms, they are still in the milk delivery business

then theres the halal guy with the lambs

That is a luxury to have some many butcher shops nearby. Its an out of the way drive for me.

bucky925 said:

some guy just pulled into my driveway with all kinds of frozen beef, chicken, pork, and seafood. He says it is from the same place that Omaha steaks come from.

I just paid $120.00 for

USDA choice boneless beef filet-bacon wrapped 12 pieces-50ozs

Beef loin T bone steaks 4 pieces-40ozs

USDA choice filet of beef sirloin ball tip steaks 8 pieces-50ozs

USDA choice boneless beef tips 10 pieces-50ozs

USDA boneless beef fillet 10 pieces-50ozs

"homestyle" pure chopped beef steaks 24 pieces-80ozs

The meat looked good and was stamped as packaged in the last few days. It was flash frozen. The brochure says the beef pack goes for $329.00 and I paid $120.00. The guy said it was the end of the day and they just want to get rid of it etc.........

The brochure says the company is Ranch House quality meats and there is a number for free delivery in the future. I hope I didn't just get taken. I also hope I didn't give a check to a meth addict. Has anyone here ever bought meat like this? I could barely fit it in my freezer and probably won't have to buy beef for 8 months now.

I had a guy pull into my driveway many moons ago right at dark. Was selling a cooler full of beef for $200-$250 if i remember correctly. I did some quick math and offered the guy $50. He laughed and said he couldn't take that but would take $75. I wrote the check and filled the freezer. Can't say any of it was memorable and the guy never bothered to pull in my driveway again. But with that being said...i do hope that some/most of that turns out ok for you. 

fishlessman said:
when i hit google, 28 butcher shops popped up and it didnt even list the farms or the old italian delis, or the lebanese shops, asian markets, the indian bazar, seafood places and some butchers ive been going to most of my life.

Having lived in many parts of the country, and visited many more, during my AF career, I am soooo jealous of this, living where I do.  :(

Hub said:

I had a friend back in college that worked as one of those freezer in the back of a truck, meat for a really good deal guys.  He told me that his company would take a fresh steak, stretch it out really thin, and then freeze it.  The appearance was a good sized steak, but when you cooked it, it shrank up big time.  Hey, that's what he told me.  You get what you pay for.

That sounds like a lot of labor.  I wouldn’t have guessed they start with fresh beef, always figured they were repackaging frozen stuff others were dumping at a heavy discount.

https://www.farewaymeatmarket.com/shop

Quality meat.