No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Base price · 02-11-2020 10:19PM

kollegeknight wrote: »

I think it’s a 500L one. The biggest we could get at the time with the intention of putting half a heifer in it.

Remember that the most important part of storing your own beef in a freezer/chest freezer is the fast freeze section which in most freezers is a small compartment. It cannot really accommodate the volume of meat that you need to get frozen in a short time. Can you get your butcher to label the bags and freeze them for you then all you have to do is sort them by the cuts/mince and pop them into your freezer.

kollegeknight · 02-11-2020 10:34PM

Base price wrote: »

Remember that the most important part of storing your own beef in a freezer/chest freezer is the fast freeze section which in most freezers is a small compartment. It cannot really accommodate the volume of meat that you need to get frozen in a short time. Can you get your butcher to label the bags and freeze them for you then all you have to do is sort them by the cuts/mince and pop them into your freezer.

Will do, great advice.

_Brian · 02-11-2020 11:30PM

kollegeknight wrote: »

I think it’s a 500L one. The biggest we could get at the time with the intention of putting half a heifer in it.

I’m going to share her with two of my brothers. Both are there if I’m badly stuck. All depends how she kills out, this is more a trial this time and see how it fairs out.

My oh is Australian and loves and misses beef sausages. For her 40th she wanted a kitchen aid so I’ll get the sausage maker attachment for her for Christmas.

We have a sausage maker here.
Great crack to get it going with the girls.

Suckler · 02-11-2020 11:33PM

_Brian wrote: »

We have a sausage maker here.
Great crack to get it going with the girls.

I didn't think you could put that in sausages.....

Water John · 02-11-2020 11:52PM

Suckler wrote: »

I didn't think you could put that in sausages.....

It's called a Hot Dog.

Genghis Cant · 02-11-2020 11:56PM

The talk of Sloe Gin on the Nature thread got me thinking and there was this on the bookshelf.
Time to polish it off.
I see I recycled the bottle from Sloe Gin 2014 to Whiskey 2017.

_Brian · 03-11-2020 03:04AM

Suckler wrote: »

I didn't think you could put that in sausages.....

You’d be surprised what’s in some of the recipes

wrangler · 03-11-2020 07:42AM

DukeCaboom wrote: »

He done work experience in our local place, he was in the lairge for a few weeks, worked the line for a bit too. Seemed alright never appeared aloof chatted away to us. He was there a week before I knew who he was.

Of course he was, He does his job and does it well.
If anything whoever replaces him will have to perform better to keep his job, not having the benefit of being son of the owner

Hard Knocks · 03-11-2020 08:21AM

Anyone watching Yellowstone last night find it strange that the last episode of season 2 was played back to back with the first episode of season 3

orm0nd · 03-11-2020 09:20AM

_Brian wrote: »

You’d be surprised what’s in some of the recipes

I remember taking pigs to a factory In limerick some time in the 1970's . I haven't eaten sausages since

patsy_mccabe · 03-11-2020 09:28AM

orm0nd wrote: »

I remember taking pigs to a factory In limerick some time in the 1970's . I haven't eaten sausages since

Was that the slaughter house in the middle of the city? Constant squeel of pigs out of it.

gozunda · 03-11-2020 11:47AM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Was that the slaughter house in the middle of the city? Constant squeel of pigs out of it.

Funny thing is I've kept pigs here for or own use.
They are noisy feckers :pac:

They'll squeal when they see you. They'll squeal when you feed them them. I was even tempted to use ear defenders when they get excited. The snoring is to be heard to be believed

Nekarsulm · 03-11-2020 12:12PM

Without ear defenders you would suffer hearing damage, especially in a Dry Sow house when its approching feeding time.

_Brian · 03-11-2020 12:13PM

gozunda wrote: »

Funny thing is I've kept pigs here for or own use.
They are noisy feckers :pac:

They'll squeal when they see you. They'll squeal when you feed them them. I was even tempted to use ear defenders when they get excited. The snoring is to be heard to be believed

Fairness it’s a great defence. When you catch a reasonable sized weaner to tag them the combination of the squealing and the wriggle would really encourage you to drop him.

Genghis Cant · 03-11-2020 12:57PM

_Brian wrote: »

Fairness it’s a great defence. When you catch a reasonable sized weaner to tag them the combination of the squealing and the wriggle would really encourage you to drop him.

You have me thinking about that famous scene from Deliverance. Squeal like a pig boy :@)

orm0nd · 03-11-2020 01:39PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Was that the slaughter house in the middle of the city? Constant squeel of pigs out of it.

Yeah roches St. Used to draw cull ewes to another slaughterhouse in the city. The blood used to be running out the front door and down the St to a gulley.

Wildsurfer · 03-11-2020 02:09PM

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Anyone watching Yellowstone last night find it strange that the last episode of season 2 was played back to back with the first episode of season 3

I'm tired today from staying up to watch them. It's a good show but its totally OTT the amount of people they can go around shooting dead and not a mention of the law, even if it is America!

03-11-2020 02:15PM

Aggrevated a recurrong hip injury a few weeks, ok, a couple of months ago. The "I'll walk it off" defence failed. Local GP annoyed me as I'd been sent for xray and given the big bottle of paracetemol to "save me money"... (feck the money, what about my hip?!).

Herself knows a great physio so off I went last week, it hurt, one bit hurt quite a lot. Then we got to the dry needle therepy, that was interesting, that hurt too.

Second appointment today, I practically skipped into the place. Contrast that to 8 days ago where I was holding onto furniture walking around the house!

Your health is your wealth!

blue5000 · 03-11-2020 02:21PM

orm0nd wrote: »

Yeah roches St. Used to draw cull ewes to another slaughterhouse in the city. The blood used to be running out the front door and down the St to a gulley.

What was the pig place called? Distant memory for me too. Still have dockets in the parent's house if I looked deep enough. Clover meats maybe?

Hard Knocks · 03-11-2020 03:41PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Aggrevated a recurrong hip injury a few weeks, ok, a couple of months ago. The "I'll walk it off" defence failed. Local GP annoyed me as I'd been sent for xray and given the big bottle of paracetemol to "save me money"... (feck the money, what about my hip?!).

Herself knows a great physio so off I went last week, it hurt, one bit hurt quite a lot. Then we got to the dry needle therepy, that was interesting, that hurt too.

Second appointment today, I practically skipped into the place. Contrast that to 8 days ago where I was holding onto furniture walking around the house!

Your health is your wealth!

Great to see you’re getting better
No matter what happens keep that humour

Lime Tree Farm · 03-11-2020 03:49PM

blue5000 wrote: »

What was the pig place called? Distant memory for me too. Still have dockets in the parent's house if I looked deep enough. Clover meats maybe?

Could be this one.

https://memorylanelimerick.com/p710322907/h2BA82934#h2ba82934

orm0nd · 03-11-2020 03:50PM

blue5000 wrote: »

What was the pig place called? Distant memory for me too. Still have dockets in the parent's house if I looked deep enough. Clover meats maybe?

Omara's and Mattersons were on Roches St.

Clover Meats (owned by Shaws) was up near Limerick prison

Edit. Post above says Dominic St.

The jail was affectionately known as 'the back of Shaws'

Lime Tree Farm · 03-11-2020 03:59PM

Pigtown - Limerick - they've written a book about it.

https://www.limerick.ie/discover/explore/historical-resources/limerick-archives/projects/Pigtown

bogman_bass · 03-11-2020 04:39PM

Panch18 wrote: »

And hasn’t Biden openly supported the black lives matter movement who are literally holding an area of an American city hostage

You mean Seattle? That’s hardly keeping a city hostage. Closer to a rave than a war zone

orm0nd · 03-11-2020 05:41PM

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Pigtown - Limerick - they've written a book about it.

https://www.limerick.ie/discover/explore/historical-resources/limerick-archives/projects/Pigtown

the picture of mattersons on that link is where the social welfare offices are now, havent been around there in yonkers but last time there was a queue , presumily of people claiming some benefit

big changes from when perhaps a couple of hundred worked there

Panch18 · 03-11-2020 05:49PM

bogman_bass wrote: »

You mean Seattle? That’s hardly keeping a city hostage. Closer to a rave than a war zone

really - the longest rave in history. I'm sure the residents and business owners in the area are delighted to have had this "rave" going on for months.

and the police cleared the precint in the area for "the craic"

Say my name · 03-11-2020 05:50PM

Matterson is an unusual surname.

Lime Tree Farm · 03-11-2020 05:58PM

orm0nd wrote: »

the picture of mattersons on that link is where the social welfare offices are now, havent been around there in yonkers but last time there was a queue , presumily of people claiming some benefit

big changes from when perhaps a couple of hundred worked there

While checking to see if I could purchase a copy, I see where you can download the pdf version.

https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2020-03/pigtown-a-history-of-limericks-bacon-industry.pdf

jimmy G M · 03-11-2020 06:51PM

Anyone get any GLAS payment today?

Water John · 03-11-2020 06:54PM

Yeah.

No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

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