Butcher

Butcher
Originally uploaded by gaikokujinkyofusho.

Meat meat meat! Since my agriculture background leans more towards livestock production I am always interested in butchers and meats. This is a pretty typical scene in the small towns and big cities. I can't tell all the cuts (as usual in developing countries exact cuts of meat are generally viewed as superfluous) here but I am guessing the stuff on the far left is either liver or lungs, the long thing is hide/skin, and the others are leg-cuts. The most common meats are mutton, goat, and beef with lamb being the most expensive and poultry (rare though it is) being the cheapest with goat and beef being in the middle.

The cuts of meat are usually pretty crude, I think the cutting utensil of choice here is the axe (or at least they are cut with the precision of one using an axe) and the result is meat that tastes just fine but is laced with flecks of bone (it’s a wonder I haven’t cracked any teeth during any of my culinary adventures).