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MEAT HAMPER ALERT!!
"Althams Butchers 5.3kg Festive British Meat Hamper"
"Althams Butchers 5.3kg Festive British Meat Hamper"
Don't know Althams however QVC don't have a good track record on meat / pies. I'm sure QVC will extol the virtues of the company, they will rave on about the care and attention to detail, the provenance, the rearing, the husbandry. But do you trust them?
Never heard of them but they appear to be based in the north of the country
http://www.althamsbutchers.co.uk/
I'm always put off a bit when butchers supply "the catering trade"
Your local butcher relies on customers returning time after time. You are his bread and butter and you are not faceless to him so he wants to please you.
These large wholesale type places employ a number of people and I daresay some of them won`t give a toss whether they do a good or a bad job when cutting or packing your meat. Plus I should imagine some of them will be Seasonal workers there for a few weeks at the busiest time of year. It will probably be a large warehouse or factory kind of building using a conveyor belt system, part of it automated and totally impersonal.
There was an article in the paper this week about yet another meat supplier, a millionaire by all accounts who`se company was selling frozen chicken as fresh and advertising that their beef and lamb was British when in fact in originated from abroad and wasn`t fully traceable and was mis labelled. He and his wife have been found guilty of fraud and are due to be sentenced in November in Warwickshire.
No matter how QVC put a spin on their new supplier and how they`ll trot out how this will be yet another family firm with strong local links and pride in their history blah blah blah, the truth of the matter is it will be a large company out to make as much profit as possible and running on an industrial estate with many could care less employees. The image Q will portray of a big friendly butcher in his stripey apron overseeing how his beef and lamb carcasses are treated with care as only the best will do for their customers etc is nothing but a big fat lie. These types of businesses only care about the number of zeros in their bank accounts and how quickly and cheaply they can churn out what is essentially mass produced food.
Your local butcher relies on customers returning time after time. You are his bread and butter and you are not faceless to him so he wants to please you.
These large wholesale type places employ a number of people and I daresay some of them won`t give a toss whether they do a good or a bad job when cutting or packing your meat. Plus I should imagine some of them will be Seasonal workers there for a few weeks at the busiest time of year. It will probably be a large warehouse or factory kind of building using a conveyor belt system, part of it automated and totally impersonal.
There was an article in the paper this week about yet another meat supplier, a millionaire by all accounts who`se company was selling frozen chicken as fresh and advertising that their beef and lamb was British when in fact in originated from abroad and wasn`t fully traceable and was mis labelled. He and his wife have been found guilty of fraud and are due to be sentenced in November in Warwickshire.
No matter how QVC put a spin on their new supplier and how they`ll trot out how this will be yet another family firm with strong local links and pride in their history blah blah blah, the truth of the matter is it will be a large company out to make as much profit as possible and running on an industrial estate with many could care less employees. The image Q will portray of a big friendly butcher in his stripey apron overseeing how his beef and lamb carcasses are treated with care as only the best will do for their customers etc is nothing but a big fat lie. These types of businesses only care about the number of zeros in their bank accounts and how quickly and cheaply they can churn out what is essentially mass produced food.
Althams Butchers 5.3kg Festive British Meat Hamper £79.92 + post
http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/app.detail/params.item.808270
1 x Beef Topside Joint (1000g)
1 x Turkey Breast Roll (2000g)
1 x Gammon Joint (1000 g)
1 x 16 pc Pork Cranberry Chipolata (454g)
1 x Pork Cranberry Chestnut stuffing (454g)
1 x Unsmoked Streaky Bacon (454g)
I would say around £30-40 for all the contents from your local butcher for that price.
Beef topside £12 per kg
Turkey £7 per kg
Gammon £7 per kg
The rest about £7.50