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marinab
Citizen
Username: Marinab
Post Number: 39
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 2:21 pm: | 
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Can anyone recommend a good local butcher selling quality meat? (especially lamb and chicken) We've been haphazardly using the meat department at King's and aren't too happy. |
Michael K. Mc Kell
Citizen
Username: Greenerose
Post Number: 167
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 2:25 pm: |
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I can't recall the name but it's in Livingston.
If you feel like driving 20 min got to the meat district in Newark.
Michael K. Mc Kell
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greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1920
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 2:46 pm: |
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The butcher at the Kings in Short Hills has been consistently good for us. |
eliz
Citizen
Username: Eliz
Post Number: 645
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2004 - 10:54 am: |
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I like the meat dept at Whole Foods- they have the best chickens (Eberle) but you will definitely pay for them. The lamb is great as well. They will also order things or specially prepare meat if you ask in advance. |
grw
Citizen
Username: Grw
Post Number: 227
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 2, 2004 - 10:54 am: |
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The butcher on the corner of Liberty and Morris in Union. |
parkah
Citizen
Username: Parkah
Post Number: 28
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 2, 2004 - 11:29 am: |
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There is a small nondescript italian food store (I forget the name) we go to with a large selection of meats cut to order. Good meat, nice local folks, decent prices.
If you're headed down Springfield Avenue in the direction of Home Depot (yuck) look for it on the right-hand side of the street just before you reach the Vaux Hall intersection. It's sandwiched right between the gas station and a locksmith store.
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marinab
Citizen
Username: Marinab
Post Number: 40
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 8:31 am: |
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thanks on those local butchers--that's what i'm looking for. I miss the ones i used to go to with sawdust on the floor where the butchers really knew their stuff. |
botulismo
Citizen
Username: Botulismo
Post Number: 109
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 - 1:31 pm: |
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The Union Pork shop on the corner of Liberty and Morris (Rt. 82) ave. is a good German/Polish butcher shop. Highly recommended! |
bella
Citizen
Username: Bella
Post Number: 413
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 1:34 pm: |
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try the lanjeger (spelling??) at Union Pork. I bring about $50 of it back to Ohio almost every time I get to NJ. |
botulismo
Citizen
Username: Botulismo
Post Number: 111
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 4:00 pm: |
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Lanjaeger (damn where's my umlauts!)
If you like bacon, this is the place. Their Weisswurst, Kielbasa and Lebenwurst are also good to try. Due to my normal Christmas overindulgence, I have to lay off this good stuff until Valentine's Day. |
marinab
Citizen
Username: Marinab
Post Number: 41
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 10:21 pm: |
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okay, guys, I'm off to indulge post- christmas ... |
flugermongers
Citizen
Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 117
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 2:32 am: |
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Ugh I can't believe I'm posting on a thread about meat. BUT.. I guess if you're going to eat meat, kosher is the more humane way to go.. so I recommend Jack the kosher butcher.. I can't remember the name of the store, but it is in the Millburn Mall (where Drug Fair is) -- my mom uses him, and she loves his stuff. |
alia
Citizen
Username: Alia
Post Number: 126
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 11:49 am: |
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Jack the butcher, as my kids call him — his shop is Maple Kosher. He's great, knows his stuff, and makes the best sausages, just spicy enough, in veal, beef, and turkey, my favorite. He delivers for free, too. |
Starr
Citizen
Username: Starr
Post Number: 20
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 11:55 pm: |
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Maple Kosher only takes cash or checks - no credit cards. The rotisserie chickens are delicious. (They have to be reserved in advance.)Call for store hours as they close early on Fridays for the Sabbath. 908-688-2080 |
botulismo
Citizen
Username: Botulismo
Post Number: 113
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 8:20 am: |
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Having come across a few slaughterhouses in the course of my profession, during kosher and non-kosher killing days, I cannot see how kosher can be considered more humane than the current FDA approved methods.
That said, I am looking forward to trying Maple Kosher for their sausages. |
flugermongers
Citizen
Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 122
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 11:29 am: |
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What do you mean, botulismo? The methods of Kosher killing are made so that the animal suffers quickly.
As you said, "a few" -- so I guess they may have been ones that broke the rules? I don't know.
I am a vegetarian. I condone NO killing. And especially in these days of factory farming and disgusting ways of getting meat -- people should buy from small farms.
Oh, and my friend showed me this the other day: www.themeatrix.com
This is just a cartoon, but there are places on the internet where you can watch videos of real factory farming conditions, slaughterhouses, etc. It's horrid, and makes me cry. I watched this one where PETA (I'm not affiliated with PETA in any way.. just watched the report) did research and video taped the leather industry in India. Apparently there's only one place beyond some border where cows can be killed in India, so cows are taken, dragged, shoved into cattle cars where they kill eachother by falling from malnutrition and poking eachotehr's eyes out, when they get tired from malnutrition, the handlers rub chilies into their eyes to rouse them -- and the part I turned the tape off at was when they were sawing -- slowly -- the cow's head off, and you got a close up of it's face. HORRID. So when your watch band is marked 'Made In India,' you know that cow died horribly.
So if you'd like to be more educated on this stuff, research it. Or private line me. Or whatever.
Botulismo, I'd love to hear more of your experience. |
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