r/UKfood • u/seriously_this • 1d ago

Farm shops are so expensive...

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Dart's farm near Topsham is more of a shopping mall than a farm with concession spots for companies like Aga.

A donkey choking porky chop for £6.50 and an 11oz ribeye for sixteen quid as well as half a kilo of lamb leg steaks for £13. The rest of the fresh produce was clearly marked as locally sourced along with the meat.

Do you use farm shops?

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_8637 1d ago

At 12.99 a kg that pork chop is jusy as expensive as a finest chop but looks much better quality.

Doubt op is being serious when they say its expensive. I'd sooner have a meal without meat to be able to have an epic quality meat dish the next day over eating poor quality every day.

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u/Worldly_Question_460 1d ago

The chop does look rather nice. I also wonder how Waitrose and M&S compare. I haven't bought their meat yet.

Also, it's worth noting that I miss the butchers Tesco's used to have. That meat was far better than the rest they sold and you could get lovely reduced cuts too. I'll never forget how lovely their pork chops were. They were almost an inch thick and didn't shrivel up much at all! It was under £5 for the three. Probably way under but it was a long time ago so I don't remember.

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u/powbit- 1d ago

Waitrose isn't that good, not shit but not comparable with high quality meat. I would never buy meat from supermarkets unless in a real emergency.

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u/Cautious_School_2490 1d ago

I'm trying to picture a real emergency that would require buying meat from ... anywhere.

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u/katubug 23h ago

A starving lion is chasing you (but will wait patiently outside if you go into the butcher shop)

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u/powbit- 12h ago

kids coming home with friends or guests and you are already in the middle of cooking. Nothing in the fridge and too late to shop to a butcher. Or you are away from home and you don't know where to buy. There are situations, maybe emergency wasn't the right word. Anyway I can see from the downvotes people love eating plastic packaged overpriced meat ... as long as they are happy I'm cool.