where to buy???

[Austin]

where is the best place to buy meat for a contest????I usally pick up my shoulders at shnucks here in memphis do I need to go to a butcher or meat market?????

 

[BBQchef33]

go wherever your comfortable you'll get quality meat. Judges dont know where u shop. Costco has better ribs than my butcher, so meat markets and butcher shops arent always the best.

 

[rbinms33]

In Memphis....I'd go with one of the following:

Charlie's Meat market up on Summer Ave....
Fayette County Packing....one of the few meat processors around....if'n you wanted it any fresher you'd have to kill it yourself....
Metro Foods.....gotten whole shoulders from them before....3 to a box and average about 16# each.
And last but not least.....Sam's Club.....I know you can get ribs there but not sure about the "whole" shoulders....but considering they're the official meat sponsor for MIM, you could probably special order them.

 

[Kevin]

To quote rbinms33 (Richie) "if'n you wanted it any fresher you'd have to kill it yourself.... "

Sounds like a good mission statement for a meat processor!

Kevin

Oh Yeah, forgot, meat is born in cryovac and then put up for adoption.

 

[rbinms33]

That's what the guy told me while I was there. You look over the counter behind the plexiglass window and you see them do the work. You don't get to see them do the actual slaughtering....come to think of it, I don't know if they actually do that there or not but you do see a bunch of dressed whole hogs (along with cows, chickens, ducks, quail, etc.) that get diced and sliced back there.

Pretty interesting to watch.....then the little parts go into cryovac and put on the pork "tree" where they're picked and shipped to market. :lol:

 

[brdbbq]

Friend of mine worked for Owens sausage down here in Richardson. His first and last job was the gut floor./

 

[rbinms33]

When I was a boy, we used to slaughter our own hogs and I was the one who got the prestigious job of cleaning the chitlins......a.k.a. chitterlings for you city folk......out with a water hose. Everything went fine until you got to a weak spot in the intestine.....then the chit really hit the fan (and everything else!)

Ahhhhh....childhood memories!

 

[qman]

Re: RE: where to buy???

When I was a boy, we used to slaughter our own hogs and I was the one who got the prestigious job of cleaning the chitlins......a.k.a. chitterlings for you city folk......out with a water hose. Everything went fine until you got to a weak spot in the intestine.....then the chit really hit the fan (and everything else!)

Ahhhhh....childhood memories!

Ritchie, you bring back my childhood memeories too. "Hog Killing Time" I got assigned the chitlin-cleaning job way too often. And helping make headcheese. Nothing like staring at a boiled whole pig skull while you pick all the bits and pieces of meat off it.

 

[spicewine]

Count me in on that experience!! My job was to shave the hair off after the hog was scalded and cookin' down the cracklins to make the lard.

 

[rbinms33]

I remember that too......a boompole on the back of a tractor.....pick the hog up and set it down on a bunch of towsacks.....a big ole kettle of boiling water going.....dip the other towsacks in the water and lay it across the hog....then get to shaving. Some people said you could skin the hog but we never did it like that.

 

[icemn62]

When I was a kid, we just went to the store to get our meat. That seems like some work in order to eat. Thank God I am a city boy.