kk.man wrote: » Tell ya British Friesian is as nice as any.
Bass Reeves wrote: » Ya and the shank ens legs from LIDL/ALDI are really only glorified shanks. They are only 1.1 kgs or 2.5 lbs. Friend buy them and boils them after he paid 23 euro for 4 gigot chops in a butchers. Must try one some time. Do it on a slow cooker with veg and great thing about you need no stock cube
DJIMI TRARORE wrote: » Lamb shanks very slowly cooked are something else, food of the gods
SEPT 23 1989 wrote: » Who in their right mind would choose lamb over beef?
tjhook wrote: » I'm not a farmer, I have little exposure to the wider issues mentioned here, but specifically on this lamb topic... Is it possible that stores doing a "special" could be a good thing if it's at their own expense? My family has tried a number of things over the years that would have been "left-field" for us in terms of home cooking, but were on special (e.g. duck), only to develop a taste for them and continue to buy them after the specials have ended. About lamb in particular... We wouldn't have done a leg of lamb before - I'm not sure why really, I find lamb tasty but it's just not our habit. We'd often put a chicken or beef in the oven, I'm not sure lamb would be any more difficult. If I'd spotted this special over the past week I'd have been very tempted to try it, and if it was a success with the kids we'd be very likely to buy it again. They'd make sure of that! And we may not be unique.
SEPT 23 1989 wrote: » Who in their right mind would choose beef over lamb?
tjhook wrote: » I'm not a farmer, I have little exposure to the wider issues mentioned here, but specifically on this lamb topic... About lamb in particular... We wouldn't have done a leg of lamb before - I'm not sure why really, I find lamb tasty but it's just not our habit. We'd often put a chicken or beef in the oven, I'm not sure lamb would be any more difficult. If I'd spotted this special over the past week I'd have been very tempted to try it, and if it was a success with the kids we'd be very likely to buy it again. They'd make sure of that! And we may not be unique.
carrollsno1 wrote: » Is Kennas gone now too? Or are you counting O Briens in the four? Havent been up friary street in a long long time, youve the fella at the top of Johns Street still going too.
Say my name wrote: » One of the family here had orders to get a 'good bit of beef in the local town' for tomorrow. Beef with fat and marbling. Went into some of the butchers. Reply was it's getting nigh on impossible to get that sort of beef. Not sure what they're doing now. Probably going to Aldi..to look for angus beef. We've a farming system where tough oul continental shoe leather is rewarded in the factories because the Europeans set up the grid. And the majority of the cattle kill, the British and dairy breeds that actually have the fat and flavour are not paid accordingly to the farmer. The father read somewhere that someone went into the butchers for lamb and was quoted €35. Don't know what it was or where. Must have been in the indo paper.
green daries wrote: » The father always used to rear his own beef and lamb imo its just miles better
Odelay wrote: » Please don’t get me wrong on this, but could the allowance not be the same as a budget?
whelan2 wrote: » Was talking to a farmers wife a few years ago. He would be a bit bossy to her. All meat to come from butchers he told her. She was given an allowance for groceries each week. She said if she bought all the meat in the butchers there would be no money left. So she would get the meat in lidl and tell him it was from the butchers. He used to say it was lovely meat...
kk.man wrote: » Kilkenny City Centre had 4 butcher shops in recent years. Its got one now. Two of the three that shut up had really good exposure in terms of location.
Base price wrote: » It is Inisvale but it's €6.47/kghttps://www.lidl.ie/en/p/product-recommendation/irish-whole-lamb-leg/p2182
Kat1170 wrote: » As has already been pointed out, two to three chops per lamb and he has that €15 back. I've never seen a poor butcher in my life.
odyssey06 wrote: » But they are selling more lambs than they would have via the deals. People will be buying lamb that would not have otherwise. It's not just LIDL, almost all the major supermarkets have lamb deals running at present and this isn't the first year. The local butchers would have already factored in the competition, or should have.
odyssey06 wrote: » There's no evidence the producers are affected by this once off LIDL offer. You want to make bad food more expensive and good food more expensive. Yet somehow this will change people's eating habits or help producers? How will it help producers if their over-priced products sit on the shelves unsold and supermarkets cut their orders in half - based on what you have said "The more expensive it is the less gets bought" You can argue current prices aren't sustainable or that junk food needs to be taxed higher, but to argue for higher prices across board will lead to more lamb \ non junk food being solid doesn't seem to add up to me.
SouthWesterly wrote: » I got 2 organic lambs about 6 months ago for 140 each butchered. 26kg of meat each. That and the Angus in my freezer, I've not had to buy any meat in a long time.
odyssey06 wrote: » That makes no sense, contradicting your own argument. You want people to buy more good food by making it... more expensive. You want people to buy less bad food by making it... more expensive?
