Our store also had our holiday open house yesterday Sat. We set our cases and full service case with all our Christmas offerings. Thruout the entire store demos of food we have for the holidays was being sampled and wine pairing was also at each station. Meat dept sampled our own Sprial sliced ham and our own homemade bread dressing. We do not use the torch to set the glaze at our store, but I did work for a provisonal that did. It was pretty cool. It was one guys job all day a couple days before the holiday to put on that glaze with a torch. Very time consuming but a delicious end result. The open house really drew in a crowd. I walked around on my lunch break and I was not even hungry after I went thru the store. They wouldnt let me have any wine samples though... ;)
femalecutter96 they didn't like you sample the wine because they may have been afraid you might have to much and do a table dance on the meat block lol
back in the late 50's to the 80's we use to keep moonshine in our coolers, most meat cutters worked drunk, we had to keep a eye on the wrappers, think how it was sometimes when a half drunk meat wrapper tried to wait on some one on the case, some times by the time they got back to us to get the order, they had change the order and it was a mess trying to get a customer over her mad spell about her order being mess up. those were some fun days, the meat dept was a on going party and we had some wild meat wrappers in those days.
I've have heard the stories of those days, I was born to late, would have like to worked in that type of setting, I've heard the market took care of it's own never had to go to the front for anything
Christmas Eve and New Years Eve were the best days. The Windows into the cutting room were covered with paper The Apprentice did all the work while we got totally wasted
ahhhhhh the good old days
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Kettle Range Meat Company, Milwaukee WI
Member Meat Cutter Hall of Fame and The Butcher's Guild
femalecutter96 they didn't like you sample the wine because they may have been afraid you might have to much and do a table dance on the meat block lol
It's really nice talking about holiday food fair and also really nice above comments, guys, i also want to say something about holiday food fair, often me and my friends going for holiday there we lot's of enjoy and when we preapring for holiday we take lot's of food for eating because there when we'll feel hungry then we'll eat that foods, for holiday specially we take seafood because seafood is our favorite ...
