FOOD Devon (UK) Butcher offers meat in pounds and ounces day after Brexit

[Melodi]

I am posting this as a stand alone off the main thread because it is a fun story and it so totally illustrates one of the main reasons so many people in "middle England" voted to leave the EU. People were enraged when the EU forced (with fines) butchers, tailors and even pubs to enforce the metric system even if their customers still wanted pounds and ounces. The government threw up its hands because "there was no choice" because of "EU rules and Regulations."

Underestimating just how strongly people can feel about keeping things that they feel are part of their very cultural identity is just one of the many mistakes the EU made; along with an over-all tendency to just try and railroad people with many other policies no one got to vote on and whose opinion was not asked.



North Devon butcher offers meat in pounds and ounces following vote to leave the EU

By NDJNicole | Posted: June 24, 2016

image: http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/...10/Article/images/29439598/14667780-large.jpg
Gratton's Butchers in Barnstaple have let customers decide whether to have their meat in pounds and ounces or kilograms.

Gratton's Butchers in Barnstaple have let customers decide whether to have their meat in pounds and ounces or kilograms.

A FAMILY run Butchers has given people the choice to buy their meat in pounds and ounces following the EU referendum result this morning.

Gratton's Butchers in Barnstaple have let customers decide whether to have their meat in pounds and ounces or kilograms.

This morning Darren Gratton told the Journal that a lot of customers wanted their meat sold in the older imperial method of pounds and ounces.

He said: "We have done it both ways this morning. The next step is to speak to North Devon Council and if they say we can go back to pounds and ounces then we will do. All the customers wanted it back in pounds."

Andrew Honey from G E Honey and Son Butchers in Bideford said they had no plans to revert back to imperial measurements and that there was no need.

He said: "We have been using the metric system since 1994. I don't see the point in going backwards."

Mike Turton, who runs a butcher shop in Ilfracombe, said he had no plans to change back to the metric system yet.

Read more at http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/...9439598-detail/story.html#DxFqsyHkEkdeelHm.99

 

[jazzy]

good for them!

 

[Millwright]

Good, I stand with the Brit's sense of culture on this.


I worked alongside a Brit Field Artillery unit in Germany.

After hooking them up with manuals and parts for their guns out of my "unauthorized excess", I could do no wrong.

Every day after close of business, their mechanics would come and find me.

They would drive up in a raggedy land rover and say "Come along lad and let's go have a pint"

Somehow it just wouldn't be right if they had said, "Come along and let's go have a half-liter".

Back then, they brought their battery (company) bar to the field.

 

[OldArcher]

Thanks, Melodi! I needed that!

God Bless the British Isles, and her freedom loving peoples!

GBY&Y's

Maranatha

OA

 

[thompson]

Does my heart good to hear about this, thanks for posting. Good for them!

 

[Plain Jane]

Actually, I have seen evidence that the Imperial Measures are more accurate than the metric.

 

[SAPPHIRE]

Good for them.........hope more of this retro consumerism pops up..............all the eu regs should be flushed down the loo.....................

 

[Laurane]

Barnstaple Devon is where my dad's dad was born and generations of our family lived.......I remember going there when I was 7 for a final visit, before we left for Australia.

I got a real kick out of that.

 

[IceWave]

Somehow an 8oz sirloin steak sounds better than a 226 gram steak. I know it's just semantics but it is what it is.

 

[imaginative]

This morning Darren Gratton told the Journal that a lot of customers wanted their meat sold in the older imperial method of pounds and ounces.

He said: "We have done it both ways this morning. The next step is to speak to North Devon Council and if they say we can go back to pounds and ounces then we will do. All the customers wanted it back in pounds."

Good story. Thanks

 

[Melodi]

bumping for the morning crew - another point as I watched the news channels last night (to see the spin) I saw a constant stream of "ain't it terrible" stories over and over; but only one about a small rural village having a great party (in the North of England).

They were toasting Freedom with pints, having old fashioned egg races, a dog show and other typical rural British Summer pastimes (often done on Saturdays or on Sunday after church).

I find it interesting that only one such story was allowed when this time of year (near mid Summer) you would have expected many such celebrations - which there probably were but you didn't see them for all the "oh my God we're all going to die" stories featuring London Yuppies, bankers and political types.

Again, this may not be such a good thing for Ireland in the term but that isn't England's problem; the Irish can have their own vote if they want and one thing that is happening is that even the Ulster UNIONIST leader is advocating people get an Irish passport (everyone born on the Island can get one if they want). The border problem could just solve itself...we are now in the land of many possibilities ...

 

[ainitfunny]

LOL. That is ANOTHER thing that was IMPOSED upon them without their consent!

 

[jenzie]

because englander stubbourness means you can't put BOTH imperial and metric on the SAAAAAAAAME CAAAAAAAARD!

 

[Milk-maid]

bumping for the morning crew - another point as I watched the news channels last night (to see the spin) I saw a constant stream of "ain't it terrible" stories over and over; but only one about a small rural village having a great party (in the North of England).

They were toasting Freedom with pints, having old fashioned egg races, a dog show and other typical rural British Summer pastimes (often done on Saturdays or on Sunday after church).

I find it interesting that only one such story was allowed when this time of year (near mid Summer) you would have expected many such celebrations - which there probably were but you didn't see them for all the "oh my God we're all going to die" stories featuring London Yuppies, bankers and political types.

Again, this may not be such a good thing for Ireland in the term but that isn't England's problem; the Irish can have their own vote if they want and one thing that is happening is that even the Ulster UNIONIST leader is advocating people get an Irish passport (everyone born on the Island can get one if they want). The border problem could just solve itself...we are now in the land of many possibilities ...

Just curious... is Ireland a part of the EU?
If so, are they discussing having a referendum to exit as well?

 

[zeker]

I know for a fact that the metric screws with the imperial..

I can drink 26 oz liquor, but never in my wildest dreams, could I drink 750 mil of booze.

burp

 

[Melodi]

Just curious... is Ireland a part of the EU?
If so, are they discussing having a referendum to exit as well?

The Republic of Ireland is in the EU; Northern Ireland is part of the UK, what is going on that is amazing is that in the North even "Unionist" leaders are suggesting that everyone get Irish passports (Republic of Ireland) meaning they will be duel EU/Non EU citizens.

While Ireland probably won't be voting themselves out of the EU (at least not for awhile) it is slightly possible that Northern Ireland could vote to leave the UK and either become their own independent tiny country or more likely join with the rest of Ireland.

Northern Ireland has benefited hugely from EU membership after centuries of being mostly ignored by London in terms of funding and the distribution of tax dollars; Scotland is in a similar situation though they are larger and share the main UK Island.

Northern Ireland on the other hand was historically not a separate country from the rest of Ireland (which honestly before the English completely took over had a number of smallish kingdoms both official and unofficial); but rather became one in 1916 when most of Ireland split of from the UK but the heavily Protestant North did not.

Now Catholics (Republicans) probably outnumber the Unionists (Protestants) and it isn't certain how a vote would go; but with even Unionists suggesting people get Irish passports things are really getting interesting.

The main thing is that no one wants a land border across the Island again; it was a terrible mess (and extremely costly) when it existed and there is simply no will for it on either side of the line.

 

[Richard]

Most butchers (and supermarkets) in the UK accept requests for meat in either pounds/ounces or kilos.