What is Butcher shop?

What Does Butcher shop Mean

A butcher shop is a commercial establishment dedicated to the retail sale of meat . In this sense, it is called meat to the muscular sector of the body of an animal that is destined to the feeding of the human being .

Typically, the butcher shop carries out the final meat processing activities, such as cutting and mincing. Anyone who works in a butcher shop developing these tasks and selling the meat is called a butcher .
Already in the Roman Empire there were butcher shops. The butcher, in fact, was a privileged worker. Today butchers usually have an industrial-type refrigerator (refrigerator) for storing the meat and a refrigerated counter for the display of the different cuts. They must also have a table for cutting and multiple knives at the butcher's disposal.

Butchers don't just offer fresh meat . Many times they also sell sausages and delicatessen products such as sausages and blood sausages . It is common that even sell the edible offal of animal raw and sometimes food but already prepared and ready for cooking (such as breaded fillets known as cutlets and skewers , kebabs or kabobs ).
There are commercial premises that function exclusively as butchers. However, it is common to find butchers inside supermarkets or installed in the same area next to greengrocers and greengrocers .
The characteristics of butchers, however, depend on the culinary culture of each country. In Argentina , to mention one case, when a person wants to prepare an asado (barbecue), they usually go to their trusted butcher to get cuts of beef such as the asado strip and the vacuum , for example.
Finally, it is mentioned as a carnage, the fact that it causes deaths and injuries with profusion of blood in many people: "It was a carnage, the murderer gave dozens of knives to each victim" , "The mutilated bodies accounted for the carnage" , "We have to prevent terrorist attacks to avoid new carnage in our nation . "

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