Earlier today, we went on a mini road trip to Mundaring to visit The Naked Butcher, on the offchance that they had meat I could eat. As it is round the back of the small shopping complex it's in, we managed to completely miss it and ended up in Sawyer's Valley before we realised we'd gone too far and doubled back.
The place was small but packed with a whole lot of dead critter. The ultimate test was going to be sausages; if I can eat the sausages then I will theoretically be able to eat anything. Josh bought sausages among other things. I asked one of the counter staff what they did with the offal, heart, lungs, liver, seeing as they did the butchering as well as sourcing from organic sources etc. Apparently all the useful stuff got chopped up and put into a freezer Josh had been in for a while, but the heart went really fast so you had to put your name down. We decided we would see how we went with this shipment and get them to deliver the next lot if we liked them.
They scored points for using all useful parts of the critter. I asked Josh if we could do bangers and mash again for lunch to test out the sausages. We had leftover mash from bangers and mash last night, Josh agreed. He cooked up the sausages when we got home.
They were a different kind of sausage. I was saying to Josh I didn't know if I felt obliged to like them because we'd gone on a decent hike to get them, and they also had this tendency to crumble. They were damn tasty though, I ate three of them and didn't feel sick. Josh agreed they tasted different from the sausages from last night. The kids reckoned they liked them less than the sausages from last night though, but Josh's theory was that it was because the sausages from The Naked Butcher were more flavoursome and also possibly seasoned.
The other meat will get eaten about as often as we consume meat (not often). Then I think we will be ordering the next lot to be delivered. And the critters shall have a continuous supply of offal.
Sausage test passed with flying colours. We'll get through the rest of the meat whenever we get through it, we got a bit and we don't eat meat that often. Then after that we'll be getting it delivered.
Nice to know there's meat out there that I can eat when I need it and that the critters are going to be having a steady supply of offal.