Got my elk back from butcher...somethings fishy

[grundy53]

Accountability is apparently a dying trait...

We have one side of the story, the OP's.  We have not yet heard from the butcher yet.  How is your comment relevant?  Other than just needing something to say?

You keep making lists of excuses for said butcher. Most if not all of which should have garnered an immediate call to the OP. 

It was not a list of excuses.  Apparently you were not reading what I wrote.  Which is pretty apparent from some of your other comments.  It must be the ADD. 

If you would have been paying attention, it is called playing devils advocate.

Like I said before multiple times.  We only have one side of the story, the OP's side.  I never said I thought he was lying or giving us a story or that he wasn't telling us the truth.  The fact remains we still only have 1 side of the story.  I tend, not to jump to conclusions based on one side. 

Considering I have 4 years of experience working in a butcher shop.  I know what can, does, and what could happen.

You're right. Must be my ADD...

[_TONY_]

Then again things happen and people get busy and forget.  It gets really busy for butchers that time of year.  Things get overlooked or forgotten once in a while. 

I think once they are done with the wrapping, since he ordered no special products, it would have been really simple to call and say " hey your order is ready for pickup"... I can't see how they didn't notice a box of wrapped meat sitting there DONE for like two months... 

Have you ever worked for or been into a Butchers Shop?  In the back where the work is done, meat is hung, and butchered meat is stored?

There isn't just 1 box sitting around with one persons animal in it.  One Whole average size Elk with no special requests (sausage, peperstix, etc) should fill 3-5 Boxes depending on the size of the Box and the size of the Elk. 

I worked 4 seasons (3months each) for a Butcher / Game Processor.  We typically had at least 1-3 people out back skinning and gutting deer and getting them hung up in the coolers, 2-5 people cutting and wrapping, making sausage and doing other special orders, and 1 dedicated person making phone calls and doing paper work. Not including the Owner.  People moved around and helped where they were needed.

During the busiest part of the season, which lasted about 6-8 weeks.  During the week days we brought in 10-40 deer a day.  On Saturday and Sunday between 80-200 deer each weekend.  We had 2-300 Deer in the cooler waiting to be processed.  That's not including Wild Pigs, the occasional farm Pigs, Beef, etc.

I can't remember exactly what the count was at the end of the season but I believe it was around 3000-3,500 Deer Processed in a 3-4 month period.  The majority of Deer fit in 1-2 Boxes, occasionally a 3rd box was required.  I don't remember how large the freezer was that the boxes of meat were kept but I know there were easily 200-300 boxes of meat in there for around 6-8 weeks during the busiest time of season.  They tried to keep orders together as much as possible and organized.   

Do you honestly think a Business with multiple employees, over half being seasonal, can run a perfectly flawless business?

Every year they handled the exact same complaints.  "We should have more meat than this", "our order was cut wrong", etc.

Well, then it should have been even harder not to notice 3-5 boxes sitting there... Right?

[pilebuck]

What a waste of time geez all the bull crap 

[Becky]

This isn't a taxidermy review thread, it's about a questionable butcher and what the OP should do. Lets get back on topic and wait for that phone call back, shall we?

[Hunterman]

This isn't a taxidermy review thread, it's about a questionable butcher and what the OP should do. Lets get back on topic and wait for that phone call back, shall we?

      Good call Smossy's Girl..Now take the taxi smashing to the taxi thread.

Hunterman(Tony)

[jnutzalot]

Update: So after calling the butcher at 10:00 he never called me back. I waited until about 1:30pm until calling him back. He stated at that time that he hadn't "seen the kid that butchered my elk yet". I asked about the tenderloins and he still didnt have an answer. I brought up the rancid smell and taste of the meat and he ask me, "Did you bring them in, in game bags? They might have got stored in the game bags, let me get hold of this kid and I'll call you back". He never called back.

I thawed out the backstraps today, they smell like a garbage can, like rancid meat. I gagged just smelling them, pretty sure I would get sick if I ate any of the steak. The straps were in perfect shape when we had them for dinner the night I brought the Elk into the shop, they smelt sweet, and tasted like lean beef before sitting in his shop for 2 months.

On the upside the burger does taste good, and smells proper. Although I'm figuring it's cut with a great deal of beef, it dosesn't look that rich red that elk burger has, here's a pic....

[h20hunter]

Looks a little pale compared to ground elk I've had.

[Hunterman]

Hows that beef taste? Dude you got screwed.

Hunterman(Tony)

[KFhunter]

Hows that beef taste? Dude you got screwed.

Hunterman(Tony)

Looks like store bought beef...


I've NEVER had brown game meat - ever!     

Never had brown beef either until the last few years suffering buying some burger out the grocery chains.

[csaaphill]

Been reading about bad butcher care a lot these days. Do these people know they corner the market so they don't care anymore or what? Hope if asked your Pming people who this guy is so they don't have that same mistake in the future. hate that since htis is a dying breed and art cutting and and wrapping, and butchering game meat people think they can just mess with people like this. This sucks.

[ridgefire]

You got screwed on your meat and i anand i now know where not to go for taxi work. Apparently pretty much anything is excusable and acceptable if it's busy.

[jnutzalot]

Been reading about bad butcher care a lot these days. Do these people know they corner the market so they don't care anymore or what? Hope if asked your Pming people who this guy is so they don't have that same mistake in the future. hate that since htis is a dying breed and art cutting and and wrapping, and butchering game meat people think they can just mess with people like this. This sucks.

I'm going to give it another day...If the shop doesn't make it right I'll let everyone know who it is.

[Jason]

Fellers this is a perfect example why I never EVER let anyone other than myself butcher my game meat!!
Jnutzalot hopefully you get the rest of your meat back!

[pilebuck]

Some people r a joke this post is worthless with all the negative comments 

[Michelle_Nelson]

Been reading about bad butcher care a lot these days. Do these people know they corner the market so they don't care anymore or what? Hope if asked your Pming people who this guy is so they don't have that same mistake in the future. hate that since htis is a dying breed and art cutting and and wrapping, and butchering game meat people think they can just mess with people like this. This sucks.

I don't see how Butchers have a corner on the market? 

There are several good butchers out there.  The one I use I have never had issue with. I have not heard any bad reviews from the people I have sent to him.