The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)
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The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)
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Re: The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)
#2That's fairly sad. I've never found a butcher whose quality or price is beaten by a grocery store yet. I've also yet to find a quality butcher shop that wasn't packed(pre-covid i suppose)
Butcher shops are also about the only place i've been able to find lean or extra lean ground beef that don't contain some percentage of 'reconstituted meat products', that pink slime shit.
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#3Amazing and sad story, with some very poignant passages
> Frank had stood on the same patch of shop floor and been told about the death of his father, then his mother, now his girlfriend. . . . So the shop wasn’t only a place of business, Frank said, as he took back the photograph. It wasn’t only a local curiosity. That little room down there was the staging place for almost every major event of his life, and he could not bear to think of it being shuttered, cobwebbed, uncared-for.
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#4Balson’s butchers (in the UK and US) are about to have their 505th birthday. Their back bacon and bangers are the best I’ve found in the US.
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#5Amazing and sad story, with some very poignant passages > Frank had stood on the same patch of shop floor and been told about the death of his father, then his mother, now his girlfriend. . . . So the shop wasn’t only a place of business, Frank said, as he took back the photograph. It wasn’t only a local curiosity. That little room down there was the staging place for almost every major event of his life, and he coul…
Can't say HN has made me teary-eyed before, but that got me.
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#6That's heartbreaking. I feel bad for future generations who are never going to get to see shops of that style.
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#7Hofpfisterei is a chain of bakery shops, headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Its business focuses on southern Germany. It has 163 branches and employs about 950 people.
Its history reaches back to the year 1331 when the mill Toratsmühle was mentioned for the first time. It must have existed before that date.
Re: The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)
#8Hofpfisterei is a chain of bakery shops, headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Its business focuses on southern Germany. It has 163 branches and employs about 950 people. Its history reaches back to the year 1331 when the mill Toratsmühle was mentioned for the first time. It must have existed before that date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofpfisterei
I once talked to a farmer south of Munich who claimed to have documents showing that his farm belonged to his family since the early 12th century. Society must have been really stable there for a long time.
Also, he told me that he is very unhappy with high land prices around Munich. He could be a multi-millionaire immediately by selling his land, but his familiy tradition does not allow this. Due to the high land prices, if he gives a small part of the land to his daughter to build a house, he must sell another part to pay the property sales tax (not sure I understood this correctly).
Re: The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)
#9Hofpfisterei is a chain of bakery shops, headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Its business focuses on southern Germany. It has 163 branches and employs about 950 people. Its history reaches back to the year 1331 when the mill Toratsmühle was mentioned for the first time. It must have existed before that date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofpfisterei
I once talked to a farmer south of Munich who claimed to have documents showing that his farm belonged to his family since the early 12th century. Society must have been really stable there for a long time. Also, he told me that he is very unhappy with high land prices around Munich. He could be a multi-millionaire immediately by selling his land, but his familiy tradition does not allow this. Due to the high land pr…
no, no and no. For the last part: gifting to family in Germany is so very cheap and in the case of land nearly unrelated to actual worth. Second he could sell it at a low price and - if this is price is not lower than, what municipalities, she had to buy 3% tax. Even better: put it into a company, load on debt for the house and do a share deal (some thousands for lawyers but definitely inheritance tax free)
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#10Where I live in Germany, small traditional butchers and bakers etc. are also closing down, but not for the lack of customers. They get too old, and nobody wants to take over.
About 8 or so years ago, a baker closed at the city center, replaced by a chain, and a friend lamented how traditional bakers can't keep up with the chains that basically put frozen products in the oven. Her father laughed and said the place was a gold mine, but the owner retired and nobody wants to get up at 3 in the morning anymore to bake bread.