Altercation with butcher

[CuriousaboutSamphire]

DH just came back from our local butcher and is a bit

The man being served ahead of him ordered 20 chicken thighs, 20 burgers, sausages, minter lamb chops etc

The butcher serving him said "that sounds like a BBQ for a large crowd" and got told to "just fucking bag it all up" Butcher refused saying that not only did it seriously deplete his sticks but that he wouldn't be party to someone breaking the lockdown regulations. The man got swearier and was asked to leave. As he left he shouted that he had driven "fucking miles" and wouldn't be coming back.

DH thinks he didn't quite expect the round of applause the butcher got, or the "well fuck off back there, then" that was shouted at him by a man probably in his 80s.

Apart from the obvious twattishness it struck us that Mr Big obvious didn't expect a hick town butcher, or customers, to be quite so capable of saying no!

Quite different from my encounter in the farm shop last weekend. Made me wonder how all those of you living in urban areas are doing - not saying all urbanites are tests more that we know who our local twats are and tend not to let them get ahead of themselves.

I hope you are all managing to avoid such prats, wherever you live!

If that's how you want to police the threads go for it.

Story was recounted second hand, detail added, which seems to have confused you a bit.

But it is true, it did happen and seems to have annoyed some posters. I don't know why as such shitty behaviour is it noteworthy as it doesn't happen all that often. Not round here anyway. That DH thought it odd (or according to some here he wet himself with excitement) is that it is odd!

Maybe not for some posters, who have my sympathy, but round here it is really odd behaviour.

Ah! The bored pile on... Welcome

Never mind. Stay well!

OP - just enjoy the drama with your DH tonight over sharing a single sausage!

But perhaps think a little more carefully about your descriptions in your OP, particularly in the coronavirus chat, when in later posts the story changes from a round of applause because of a rude man, to only one other customer in the shop (your DH) and queue of 3/4 people outside and probably those at back bugger all idea of what went on, and it possibly could have been a parking issue!

You’ll be defensive, but actually the detail is quite important because exaggerating in corona virus chat is just.... a bit daft and irresponsible

Haha good for the butcher and the old sweary man.

Yes it is the butchers business to decide how much of each thing a customer can have. And also people saying learge families with 8 kids blah blah blah need that much meat each week, your diet is utterly vile and you should think about changing it because thats bloody ridiculous.

The butcher is doing good ensuring the government rules are followed as well as making sure all his regular customers get priority in buying what they need.

God this is mumsnet thread at it's finest. There have been 100's of threads about people taking the piss during this time. And yet the one thread where a shop owner hold some entitled arsehole accountable then the shop owner MUST be in the wrong.

If he had legitimate reason to buy all that meat then all he had to do was be polite and explain and not be rude.

As I say... you’ll be defensive

I think the point is... given the exaggerations... I highly doubt the amount of meat your “second hand” version as you say, is remotely accurate!

Not even your story, it’s hearsay.

I don't get why the butcher didn't just say "sorry stocks are limited at the moment so I'm not able to take orders of that size"

Seems like a lot of fuss about nothing.

Well, this has inspired me to rewatch Larkrise to Candleford, so thanks for that.

It's burger bun fight o'clock

OP, I think the problem is that many of the posters arguing with you have never been inside a genuine butchers shop in their life.
They buy their meat in pre-packed vacuum sealed packets from the supermarket and wouldn’t have a clue which cut came from which animal.
Our butcher’s fab too. DH bought him a bottle of whiskey for Christmas as a thank you for all the juicy bones he supplies us with for DDog.

We have a big family under one roof and i'd need that amount of meat for a barbi.

A work colleague said she had to go shopping for her family, her parents and her grandparents. She wasn’t looking forward to the tuts and stagers she was going to get, and had resigned herself to having to make more than one trip.

IMO the posters on here defending the rude customer sound deeply unpleasant, selfish and self entitled, and probably don't live somewhere like you or I do.

I wonder how many people actually heard the conversation to give this round of applause. I went to the burger this morning and the size of the shop meant only 2 customers at a time, everyone else queuing outside. Same for the green grocer.

How big a round of applause was it or was it all just very loud?

*butcher.

Not all heroes wear capes!

@Laiste - how many people are under your roof?

@CuriousaboutSamphire definitely stop taking the bait and start ignoring the goady fuckers who are trying to poke holes in your story. Overall, I think it’s a good point about keeping resources for communities. I’m tempted to ask what your brought home because I love treating myself to small butcher shop goodies. Especially of the bacon variety. :)

Clearly not local enough for Hillary Briss to give a nudge and wink about the 'special stuff'

Looking at the responses to the OP, this is what penis beaker brought us. How depressing.

I'm planning to BBQ every day that's sunny. Why? Because it's a bit of fun in a lockdown world. We'd eat that order in about 5 days. Fair enough if the Butcher is rationing publicly, not one to decide to be the Police a smeary apron.

And for the record I shop on actual non-vacuum packed shops every weekend. My butcher would've said TSS "Ican't do that much chicken as I am short" and I would've said "OK S, can I take a few more sausages?".

Local shopkeepers aren't the rozzers FGS.

People here are prepping huge amounts to deliver to isolated seniors, so it seems unfair to assume that a gathering would take place rather than a distribution.

And yet the one thread where a shop owner hold some entitled arsehole accountable then the shop owner MUST be in the wrong
That's not it at all. The OP has embellished the story so much, it's really hard to know which parts are true, if any. He barged throught the queue to get out but then, there was only 1 other person in the shop. The butcher got a round of applause. Sorry, actually no one mentioned clapping. lol. A crowd. No a few.
All good, the OP obviously likes to 'write' but probably should have quit waaay before the 'oh, and he parked illegally as well' 🤣
OP, I think the problem is that many of the posters arguing with you have never been inside a genuine butchers shop in their life
Probably the opposite. Personally, I love my main butcher and his family.

Similar thing happened To me in a local butchers shop a couple of weeks ago. Before the limits of only one customer in the shop at a time there were four of us in there and two outside. Two men came in- tall and heavily built and demanded the price list . (Prices were all on the individual cuts of meat on display) . Kept on and on saying he needed to know how much he was spending before storming back outside. Butcher told me it was common practice these days for them (he said Romanians But they could have been from any non English speaking country) to not want to queue in the big Costco in the nearest town and come to the small butchers with huge orders which just wipes the shop out and leaves nothing for the regulars. They’d been round all the local butchers so now no one will serve them. When I left the shop both men were demanding from the butchers wife that she sold them what they needed- not a chance 😂