The Mad Butcher

We don’t eat all that much meat at home as my wife is vegetarian but when we have have a barbeque we usually go to the butcher rather than the supermarket. If it’s around payday, we would probably go to the Mt Eden traditional butchery or the Gladstone butchery in Parnell. When times were a bit tougher (eg last year) we went to the Aussie butcher and on one occasion the Mad Butcher. The vibe I got when I went into this shop was that it was a little downbeat. Meat for sale but there was no love in the way it was all piled up in long fridges. When we cooked the sausages, they didn’t taste great and the steaks were nothing special either. I guess if you want a bit of decent meat, you just have to splash out a bit more. Granted you might think the organic butchers are a bit flash but the meat the Mad Butcher sells is obviously for very unfussy people.

Now, I feel a bit bad writing this, but is with all the fuss over the Mad Butcher? I have gone in a few times thinking maybe I have just missed something, but I am not sure I have. They did’t have any free range chicken which ruled that option out for me, and I am yet to see a sausage by them that doesn’t contain pork. The prices were not extra ordinarily cheap, so what is it? Are they paying for lots of PR? Butcher PR, the new trend. I think I recall they are involved with charities, I see there name everywhere, I’m really not to sure, maybe I will try third time lucky…