I have a mate who is a butcher in one of those large shops starting with W or C.
The meat arrives in box's not carcase and while some cuts are ok, believe me a good butcher is better.
I have eaten for cost, gee half my life, but in truth diet or not if you could still get them cold mutton flaps corned are a dream from my childhood the only meat we could buy once.
Now it is sausages and scotch filet's and just maybe some thing like that black Angus of rechtubs.
I did forget the once cheap side of hogget or even lamb it once was a cheap feed and on my weekend return home from work in Sydney I took one or the other home to the tribe[ family].
Most of us would have bought hogget under the brand lamb its common in shonky butchers shops.

If you are talking a steak or a sausage then fair enough buy a damn good one but other than that I can honestly make a cheap piece of anything, yum. Probably like I bet Daves mum could. Cheap fatty mince makes the bestest bolognaise and any old chook can be turned in to a delicious korma.

But I was broke for a few years and it was necessary to acquire some skills when it came to cheap or starve. Most of the week was vegetarian fair.

Do aboriginals have “boil ups” Dave? Maoris do ‘em, cabbage and pigs head, my boy loves it. The meat in NZ would cost about two dollars.

Pelican
If I have misunderstood you I will apologise but I am pretty sure of your own statements that employers should be able to sack staff at anytime without recourse or cause. Are you now denying this?

No, but if you look at my previous posts on IR you will see that all I ever want is the same rights to choose workers just as workers can choose jobs.

Foxy; Our butcher also makes the most superb sausages -
ideal for barbeques - he's actually won
awards for them.

That's great to hear, I to have won awards for my snags. I am very proud of them and so are my staff. We only sell the very best of everything and it is a pleasure to sell good meat.

Yes PP; Maoris do ‘em, cabbage and pigs head, Don't forget the 'watercress', I sell heaps of heads and pork bones as well.

A good nutrisious ;'cheap' feed.

Belly, corned lamb flaps are still available for about $4.00 per kilo. A great 'cheap' feed. And yes, you most likely have been sold hogget as lamb but not at my shop. My side of lamb will cost you about $11 per kilo and being Tassie,which is hormone and steriod free it's worth every cent.

It sounds rechtub that yours is the shop I would buy at if I live nearby.
And it looks like your shop is much like the one I use.
Not for a second saying I am rich or even well off, but after a lifetime of being one of a very big crowd, my family I live alone and can buy what I want.
Strange but true I will find my mutton flaps and over eat them, but still on a diet I will pay for them twice.
My memory's are full of the very cheapest cuts as a kid those sides of mutton I took home on the Cooma mail train all those years ago bought smiles to my family.
Mutton and pork ribs once a near throw away are now top dollar stuff.
Sheep shanks too we have learned to eat cuts we never considered much.
In the bush you can get good service loyalty and understanding from your butcher, I drive past ten shops and 70 klm to my bloke he knows it at and it pays for me and him.

Belly
Mutton and pork ribs once a near throw away are now top dollar stuff.
Sheep shanks too we have learned to eat cuts we never considered much.

Yes, you can blame Jamie Oliver for this one. Until he, and others alike started to cook these cuts, shanks in particular were sold as 'dog food'.

Oganic meat is another grey area.

Orgaic meat producers have got it wrong, in such that their meats arrive in a colourful box with 'organic' written all over it. It is un-mistackably 'organic', yet, you open the box and the meat is in a plain bag.

This is something I have taken up with the orgainc society but they appear disinterested and it is this 'back to front' marketing that leads to subsitution.

I won't sell organic for this reason, instead, I sell tasmanian beef and lamb as it is guaranteed 'steroid' and 'hormone ' free.

Orgainc chickens are better packaged however 'a chook is a chook', appearence wise, once the feathers are off and these to are often subsituted. In fact, I have been abussed in the past when asked the price of organic chickens, as the abuser often says they can buy organic chickens for $6 to $8 per kg. If they are silly enough to believe that, then I don't want to serve them anyway.

For the record, if you pay less than $14.00 per kilo for a whole organic chicken, I would bet you are being ripped. They cost me $11 per Kg to buy, but they are the real thing.

I could not post last night I had used my ten.
But agree you just do not know what you are buying with organic.
If some one can tell me if it is possible to surgically stop a rooster crowing I will not be short of chickens.
Come to think of it if we could do that many organic chooks would be around even country villages do not like that sound personally I love it