Hi everyone,
The meat that we got today really crossed the line. Here where I live, people usually don't buy their meat from the grocery store, they go directly to the butcher to purchase their meat. My family does not eat Pork if we have a choice, so when we make hamburgers, we request 100% Beef.
Nobody was home today during the hours the butcher was open, so we asked my grandmother if she would get it while she was at the butcher getting her things. She requested 1 Kilo of 100% beef, but she ended up getting Pork meat instead. She didn't notice since she had a large order, and when she gave it to me this afternoon I looked at it and it looked a little funny. I don't know much about meat, so I waited until my mom got home from work at 6. She saw it, and said that it was Pork. Now, the thing is...they charged us for Beef. THe price difference is actually pretty large - so it's not like we're only talking about a few cents.
This isn't the first time it has happened at this butcher. We only have 2 in our town, and we don't like the other butcher - so we continue to go to this one. The first bad incident we had was when we ordered meat for Rouladen. ALL of the pieces had large chunks of fat and gristle on them, so we had to cut so much out of the meat that we hardly had any left to make rouladen. We've also had big chunks of fat and gristle in our hamburger meat too.
What would you do in this situation? Everybody here seems so passive and likes to say "oh well, they made a mistake", but since it's the same mistake over and over again, I feel the need to say something - especially since we are paying money for meat that we don't like to eat!
Would you say something to the butcher? Like I said, we don't like to buy our meat at the grocery store (already packaged) - but that looks like the only other option...
The meat that we got today really crossed the line. Here where I live, people usually don't buy their meat from the grocery store, they go directly to the butcher to purchase their meat. My family does not eat Pork if we have a choice, so when we make hamburgers, we request 100% Beef.
Nobody was home today during the hours the butcher was open, so we asked my grandmother if she would get it while she was at the butcher getting her things. She requested 1 Kilo of 100% beef, but she ended up getting Pork meat instead. She didn't notice since she had a large order, and when she gave it to me this afternoon I looked at it and it looked a little funny. I don't know much about meat, so I waited until my mom got home from work at 6. She saw it, and said that it was Pork. Now, the thing is...they charged us for Beef. THe price difference is actually pretty large - so it's not like we're only talking about a few cents.
This isn't the first time it has happened at this butcher. We only have 2 in our town, and we don't like the other butcher - so we continue to go to this one. The first bad incident we had was when we ordered meat for Rouladen. ALL of the pieces had large chunks of fat and gristle on them, so we had to cut so much out of the meat that we hardly had any left to make rouladen. We've also had big chunks of fat and gristle in our hamburger meat too.
What would you do in this situation? Everybody here seems so passive and likes to say "oh well, they made a mistake", but since it's the same mistake over and over again, I feel the need to say something - especially since we are paying money for meat that we don't like to eat!
Would you say something to the butcher? Like I said, we don't like to buy our meat at the grocery store (already packaged) - but that looks like the only other option...
