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Rude (especially the young lad), long queues, expensive, not always great produce.

My 3 bird roast at Xmas was ok and not cheap.

I wish it felt like I was going into a local community butcher not just another retailer taking advantage of middle class post code migrants (like me). I know that?s naive.


He behaves and charges like he has no competition!

Almost any possible opinion about WR has been expressed on


this thread


the young lad is just that - a young lad

most of the staff are a joy

I have had a few brusque encounters - I'm a big boy and can deal with that. Mostly I have a laugh and a joke with the people in there

You can pay a lot of money in there - but you are usually getting the product to go with it. If you stick with basics (mince, bacon etc) then you almost certainly get better quality and usually (in my experience) cheaper product than the supermarket


I waited years for a butchers to open in ED I'm not about to turn my back on it now


Other butchers are available. I like most of them too. Sparkes is great but because of the van he can only have a limited stock tho. Would be good if he obtained a premises

I'm sure you?re not suggesting that because I?m dissatisfied with my encounters that I am not a ?big boy? and therefore immature.


I too have ?waited years? for a butcher.


I can only comment on my experiences. Generally they are fine but not always and today when I called to ask for a goose and asked how many people it would serve he said ?look its half price do you want it or what!?

I've started to use sparks instead of WR. The guys in the van are generally friendlier and seem not to mind being asked questions about their products provenance, cooking tips etc, where as I've always felt rushed in WR. In my experience the quality is better and as there's never more than 2 people in front of me at sparks it also means less of my saturday wasted in a queue. Sparks FTW.

I too have had rude service from them and have, as a result, used them much less over the last year.


Last Christmas (2007) I ordered a capon, to be collected a week before Christmas. I was a regular customer and would go in there at least once a week, so they knew my face. I sent my husband to collect said bird and he was sent home with a turkey. I went back with the turkey, on a Saturday and was told by the main guy that I was wrong and I had definitely ordered a turkey. Now I wouldn't mind but a capon is a pretty specific thing to order - and to make matters worse he loudly started telling me what a capon is and sarcastically asking the lady who took the order "would you have written a turkey if a customer had ordered a turkey" etc. I was mortified and furious and I now only go back if I really have to. Shame, as most of the staff are pleasant but the best Italian butcher there left a while ago now.


I now buy my meat via Riverford - excellent quality, but not cheap so we eat less of it. Sainsburys, I am sad to say, is also a beneficiary of their rudeness. Woodvale is excellent, particularly for beef, but it usually takes too long to get served with two active boys in tow.


William Rose are sadly becoming a victim of their own success.

Generally I like William Rose (apart from the queue) but at Xmas, I ordered 2 free-range chickens and was given 2 St George range chickens at ?14 a pop for the Xmas dinner. Got them home and after not finding the words 'free range' on the label, I found out (by checking suppliers website) that they aren't actually free-range (they are reared in a shed).


I ended up taking them back to WR and complaining, and instead paid ?17 a chicken for proper free range chickens (WR's Sutton Hoo range). They were very good about it and switched them but I can't help thinking that it isn't very ethical to sell chickens as free range if they aren't.


Someone else I spoke to said they bought 'free range' St George chickens from WR and hadn't realised that they weren't actually free range so maybe this is happening a lot.


Supplier's website:

http://www.diaperpoultry.co.uk/productsCK.asp?maingrp=CK

When I first passed the Saturday queue, I assumed there was a sale on, a kind of indoor version of the meat raffles one used to find in pub carparks.

I like a lamb chop as much as the next man, and my admiration for pretty much every bit of Brer pig has been a constant in my life.

But I couldn't see myself queuing outside a shop like that on a freezing Saturday, even if uncomplicated no-strings sexual intercourse was on offer.

Unless there was a bacon sandwich involved.

My brother was visiting east dulwich last year and I sent him down to WR to buy the goodies for the Saturday morning fry up (i'm good like that). He said the chap in front of him in the queue asked for a free range chicken and the butcher picked one up and was about to bag it saying "that one's ?17 sir" - the chap very calmly responded saying - "Actally I think I'll have a less grand chicken".

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