That’ll do pig.

[patman post]

We don't even have to go online. Between our local butcher and Morrison's, if we want meat while we're shopping there, all offal and cuts seem to be available. The only things we've not been able to get for years are pork chops with the kidney in, and veal because "there's no demand". Otherwise tails, cheeks, bones, trotters, feet, liver, kidneys, hearts, suet, tripe, etc, etc, etc, are all available. So, no noticeable shortages of meat, fish or groceries so far, though fizzy water in 2ltr bottles is absent from Morrison's and Sainsbury's...

[Nick]

There are a lot of recipes I would like to try but getting the offal an similar from a butchers is not possible.
(I even have problems getting pigs trotters.)

It's amazing how you struggle with the easiest of tasks.

Took me all of 30 seconds.

https://rjtrevarthen.co.uk/our-products/offal/

[papasmurf]

where do you think i acquired two dustbinfuls of bovine testicles ? I wasnlt going to order them from sainsburys.

There are a lot of recipes I would like to try but getting the offal an similar from a butchers is not possible.
(I even have problems getting pigs trotters.)

[johnofgwent]

Interesting that so many of you have had experience of abattoirs!  Explains a lot!   

where do you think i acquired two dustbinfuls of bovine testicles ? I wasnlt going to order them from sainsburys.

[papasmurf]

A bit of truth there. Some sectors have suffered personnel shortages for years but muddled through. What Brexit has triggered is acute shortages that have been accentuated by Covid...

Plus the refusal of Priti Patel to grant visas.

[patman post]

The current labour shortage is 100% to do with Brexit, there was no shortage before Brexit. The shortage is 100% down to Prit Patel refusing visas to EU citizens to do the work and the refusal to put it on the skill shortages list.
(Also at the moment there are hundreds of abattoir workers available in Brittany available due to redundancies, and abattoir closures. A situation that will  not last long because a new mega state of the art abattoir is being built to service a one million pig a year contract with China.)

A bit of truth there. Some sectors have suffered personnel shortages for years but muddled through. What Brexit has triggered is acute shortages that have been accentuated by Covid...

[papasmurf]

The fact is that it is crappy job and few people want to do it, nothing to do with Brexit, more to do with Covid.

The current labour shortage is 100% to do with Brexit, there was no shortage before Brexit. The shortage is 100% down to Prit Patel refusing visas to EU citizens to do the work and the refusal to put it on the skill shortages list.
(Also at the moment there are hundreds of abattoir workers available in Brittany available due to redundancies, and abattoir closures. A situation that will  not last long because a new mega state of the art abattoir is being built to service a one million pig a year contract with China.)

[Nick]

Interesting that so many of you have had experience of abattoirs!  Explains a lot!   

I did some work for a packaging company specialising in vacuum packaging. The Morrison's site near Burnley was one of my calls and it was due a refurb, whilst stripping the machine down we found maggots everywhere, it was not a pleasant experience, pretty much like the pig intestines bursting on me.

The fact is that it is crappy job and few people want to do it, nothing to do with Brexit, more to do with Covid.

[papasmurf]

Interesting that so many of you have had experience of abattoirs!  Explains a lot!   

I took several race horses to a specialist abattoir many years ago.

[T00ts]

Many years ago I knew a woman who was married to a slaughter man (I don't know if they are called that now) in Norfolk. He was slightly crazy by all accounts and the marriage didn't last. She often thought that the job sent him a bit potty.

Interesting that so many of you have had experience of abattoirs!  Explains a lot!   

[johnofgwent]

I've been in a few abattoirs and it's a smell you never forget, it's almost as if death has a smell.

Don't I know it.

[papasmurf]

I've been in a few abattoirs and it's a smell you never forget, it's almost as if death has a smell.

I have been in a few pubs like that. (Usually the only running water in the bogs is your own.)

[T00ts]

I've been in a few abattoirs and it's a smell you never forget, it's almost as if death has a smell.

That's what she said. He used to bring it home with him. There is no getting rid of it.

[Nick]

Many years ago I knew a woman who was married to a slaughter man (I don't know if they are called that now) in Norfolk. He was slightly crazy by all accounts and the marriage didn't last. She often thought that the job sent him a bit potty.

I can't imagine spending a life killing. It is one thing if it is as required in order to eat for those nearby, but wholesale slaughtering for others to stick on a shelf with a shelf life as a commercial enterprise feels wrong somehow. It must take a certain type of person so filling vacancies might be challenging.

I've been in a few abattoirs and it's a smell you never forget, it's almost as if death has a smell.

[papasmurf]

I can't imagine spending a life killing.

Actually only a short time in a shift is spent doing that, there are frequent changes.