Comments on: Yesterday’s Butchers Today http://citizenreporter.org/2008/04/yesterdays-butchers-today/ Under-reported news by a Portuguese-American, activist-journalist based in Amsterdam. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:21:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DROCK http://citizenreporter.org/2008/04/yesterdays-butchers-today/comment-page-1/#comment-162489 DROCK Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:07:43 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1439#comment-162489 It's not like I drive to rural Virginia or North Carolina to get my meals but when traveling finding a www.sheetz.com is awesome. After being at a race in the heat all day and having to drive for hours to get home I don’t really feel like making small talk with deli counter people. I like touch screens, I like pictures, I like my order being correct and I don’t like shooting the shit in bumblefuck VA at 1am when I’m tired. Plus those good old butcher types used to give me such a hard time when I was little and would go to Yedis on Morris Ave in Union for a sandwich. Oh man they used to bust my balls and all I wanted was a damn ham sandwich. While you might like making small talk with every butcher, baker and freaking candlestick maker thankfully we have touch screens, self check out and ordering online. Maybe you should attend more renaissance festivals from what I hear there are blacksmiths, cobblers and goodly inn keepers that would to chat about the village's news and gossip. Oh hold on the phone is ringing…Hey Mark it’s the 1600’s and they want to know when you’re going to join them "(despite that fact that Im a veggie)" - Mark Yeah sure do like your vegetables especially when their smothered in all that chicken, turkey and fish you eat Ha-ha It’s not like I drive to rural Virginia or North Carolina to get my meals but when traveling finding a http://www.sheetz.com is awesome. After being at a race in the heat all day and having to drive for hours to get home I don’t really feel like making small talk with deli counter people. I like touch screens, I like pictures, I like my order being correct and I don’t like shooting the shit in bumblefuck VA at 1am when I’m tired.

Plus those good old butcher types used to give me such a hard time when I was little and would go to Yedis on Morris Ave in Union for a sandwich. Oh man they used to bust my balls and all I wanted was a damn ham sandwich.

While you might like making small talk with every butcher, baker and freaking candlestick maker thankfully we have touch screens, self check out and ordering online.

Maybe you should attend more renaissance festivals from what I hear there are blacksmiths, cobblers and goodly inn keepers that would to chat about the village’s news and gossip. Oh hold on the phone is ringing…Hey Mark it’s the 1600’s and they want to know when you’re going to join them

“(despite that fact that Im a veggie)” – Mark

Yeah sure do like your vegetables especially when their smothered in all that chicken, turkey and fish you eat

Ha-ha

]]> By: Keith http://citizenreporter.org/2008/04/yesterdays-butchers-today/comment-page-1/#comment-162486 Keith Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:27:10 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1439#comment-162486 damn this thread is funny! damn this thread is funny!

]]> By: bicyclemark http://citizenreporter.org/2008/04/yesterdays-butchers-today/comment-page-1/#comment-162483 bicyclemark Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:29:41 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1439#comment-162483 Tell it keef tell it! How do these execs make these decisions? talk about out of touch and ass backwards. the good-bad news is that with the cost of fuel skyrocketing and cost of food following... this big stores are going to hit a major speed bump and the value of a local shop could make a big comeback. if there are any left. Tell it keef tell it! How do these execs make these decisions? talk about out of touch and ass backwards. the good-bad news is that with the cost of fuel skyrocketing and cost of food following… this big stores are going to hit a major speed bump and the value of a local shop could make a big comeback. if there are any left.

]]> By: bicyclemark http://citizenreporter.org/2008/04/yesterdays-butchers-today/comment-page-1/#comment-162482 bicyclemark Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:27:08 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1439#comment-162482 Thank you s-p.org, the butcher is indeed (despite that fact that Im a veggie) an interesting and skilled worker whos job may soon go extinct in favor of.. well.. .him/her doing the job with a paper hat in a large chain store. Thank you s-p.org, the butcher is indeed (despite that fact that Im a veggie) an interesting and skilled worker whos job may soon go extinct in favor of.. well.. .him/her doing the job with a paper hat in a large chain store.

]]> By: bicyclemark http://citizenreporter.org/2008/04/yesterdays-butchers-today/comment-page-1/#comment-162481 bicyclemark Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:25:23 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1439#comment-162481 Wait a minute.. you actually have to go there to get your food? how annoying.- Robots should bring that to your house and it should all be web based, who has time to go to a place just for food. Wait a minute.. you actually have to go there to get your food? how annoying.- Robots should bring that to your house and it should all be web based, who has time to go to a place just for food.

]]> By: DROCK http://citizenreporter.org/2008/04/yesterdays-butchers-today/comment-page-1/#comment-162438 DROCK Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:07:07 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1439#comment-162438 I prefer the sandwich computers at Sheetz – a touch screen has pictures of all the sandwiches, you can modify them anyway you want with an endless choice of condiments and fixings. When you’re done hit “enter” and some person makes your sandwich and it appears right there before you mistake free. Then swipe your debit card on the express lane and you can get lunch and pay for it without having to talk to anyone. The future is bright I prefer the sandwich computers at Sheetz – a touch screen has pictures of all the sandwiches, you can modify them anyway you want with an endless choice of condiments and fixings. When you’re done hit “enter” and some person makes your sandwich and it appears right there before you mistake free. Then swipe your debit card on the express lane and you can get lunch and pay for it without having to talk to anyone. The future is bright

]]> By: SeePortugal.Org http://citizenreporter.org/2008/04/yesterdays-butchers-today/comment-page-1/#comment-162423 SeePortugal.Org Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:55:37 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1439#comment-162423 Very nice story. I have been out of Portugal for the last two weeks...in the Middle West of the United States...that is one great country, the big cities and the countryside like you write about here. I already miss Lisboa, and my butcher, the Loja de Carne just of of Av. Liberdade. The best cutters in town. Can't wait to get back. Great writing man. Very nice story. I have been out of Portugal for the last two weeks…in the Middle West of the United States…that is one great country, the big cities and the countryside like you write about here. I already miss Lisboa, and my butcher, the Loja de Carne just of of Av. Liberdade. The best cutters in town. Can’t wait to get back. Great writing man.

]]> By: Keith http://citizenreporter.org/2008/04/yesterdays-butchers-today/comment-page-1/#comment-162401 Keith Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:23:52 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/?p=1439#comment-162401 I enjoyed that one Marko. While watching some of the foreign (to me) films I've seen, I've often wondered what it would be like to visit specialty shops... The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker! Everyone was a master at their craft. You knew you could walk in there and ask anything, and they would know. The thing that annoys me is that supermarkets are all becoming gourmet! Choice cut meats blah blah blah. Don't get me wrong, I like good food! But, isn't that what we had before, with the butcher? Wasn't it the people that stopped going to the local butcher because he's too expensive and you could get twice as much at the local supermarket? Hell, we even join food clubs like Costco, Sams, and BJs just to save a buck! And now we have these supermarkets paying inexperienced teenagers to sell gourmet meats for the same price as what people used to pay at a butcher! These businesses had a great idea, but once again we are the suckers. I enjoyed that one Marko. While watching some of the foreign (to me) films I’ve seen, I’ve often wondered what it would be like to visit specialty shops… The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker! Everyone was a master at their craft. You knew you could walk in there and ask anything, and they would know.

The thing that annoys me is that supermarkets are all becoming gourmet! Choice cut meats blah blah blah. Don’t get me wrong, I like good food! But, isn’t that what we had before, with the butcher? Wasn’t it the people that stopped going to the local butcher because he’s too expensive and you could get twice as much at the local supermarket? Hell, we even join food clubs like Costco, Sams, and BJs just to save a buck!

And now we have these supermarkets paying inexperienced teenagers to sell gourmet meats for the same price as what people used to pay at a butcher! These businesses had a great idea, but once again we are the suckers.

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