My family usually heads to the Raleigh Farmers Market which is about 35-40 min away from us, but quite large, easy to park, etc. My wife and kiddo sometimes go to the smaller Durham one. I’d never been, the kiddo is away at camp, so the wife and I grabbed coffee and off we went on a beautiful post-thunderstorm morning...
Imagine my surprise (I did a double take myself) when I saw a chalkboard that said "Dry aged beef.... Berkshire Pork..." Whhhat? I have never bought heritage pork of any kind and was going to place an order with Compart Duroc this weekend - but this fell into my lap! Meadow Lane Farm (owned and operated by women, ladies!) is there EVERY weekend. She had several huge coolers of meat. Her Boston Butts were only around 2.5-3lbs, but she also had STLs. We pick up our daughter on Friday, and Saturday I’m smoking ribs at her request so I was really excited to stumble into this now. I have a full rack of BBs in the freezer already, so this seemed perfect.
Me: "I’ll take some of the STL"
Her: "Oh good, we had some of those last night... here, try this watermelon sweetheart" (OMG this woman rules)
Me: "Ah the racks are cut, I’ll take both packages".
Her: "Wonderful. I can’t remember my price (right in front of her $10.50/lb) let’s call it $9.50/lb. Comes to $52.00, $50 will work. Tell ya what, we’ll do $40 and call it good".
Me: "Thank you ma’am, I’ll be back soon!"
As I said, I’d never bought heritage pork. Wasn’t sure about the price. Briefly looking seems $10.50 is about right for STL, in which case I should’ve paid closer to $57. To those with more experience buying Berkshire, does the price seem right? Do they look like what you might typically receive in an order, or was I taken for a ride?
Imagine my surprise (I did a double take myself) when I saw a chalkboard that said "Dry aged beef.... Berkshire Pork..." Whhhat? I have never bought heritage pork of any kind and was going to place an order with Compart Duroc this weekend - but this fell into my lap! Meadow Lane Farm (owned and operated by women, ladies!) is there EVERY weekend. She had several huge coolers of meat. Her Boston Butts were only around 2.5-3lbs, but she also had STLs. We pick up our daughter on Friday, and Saturday I’m smoking ribs at her request so I was really excited to stumble into this now. I have a full rack of BBs in the freezer already, so this seemed perfect.
Me: "I’ll take some of the STL"
Her: "Oh good, we had some of those last night... here, try this watermelon sweetheart" (OMG this woman rules)
Me: "Ah the racks are cut, I’ll take both packages".
Her: "Wonderful. I can’t remember my price (right in front of her $10.50/lb) let’s call it $9.50/lb. Comes to $52.00, $50 will work. Tell ya what, we’ll do $40 and call it good".
Me: "Thank you ma’am, I’ll be back soon!"
As I said, I’d never bought heritage pork. Wasn’t sure about the price. Briefly looking seems $10.50 is about right for STL, in which case I should’ve paid closer to $57. To those with more experience buying Berkshire, does the price seem right? Do they look like what you might typically receive in an order, or was I taken for a ride?
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