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captain queeg

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21. Hadn't heard the term master butcher in a long time

Mon Apr 20, 2020, 04:16 PM

Apr 2020

When I first started cutting meat out of high school it was considered a pretty decent trade. I suppose they had apprenticeships but I just worked my way up with OJT. There was even a meat cutting school in southern OH, I worked with a guy who had gone there. But nowadays things are done at the plant level and each guy is only good at one thing. Everything is processed at the plant and at the store there isn’t much skill beyond just cutting the boneless pieces. I’m talking about the big supermarkets. I haven’t seen a real sirloin steak for 30-40 years. That was always my favorite. The one with a long bone and part of the tenderloin. Anyways I’m just glad I saw the writing on the wall and went back to school when I did.

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