As It happens I live quiet close to Leicester market about 30 mins on a bus pass, quiet renown for its veg and meat market. The only thing I had in mind after my days in Kluang was also the market so this idea was in my head to buy a case of chickens.
Feeling comfortable going shopping anywhere for some is a nerve racking experience, especially if you’re a bloke or not directly involved with it at the time. There should be more areas where reluctant spouses can congregate in shopping centres whilst others shop to drop. Market shopping is another matter where getting yourself noticed is an art. But before you head off to the market, just like charity, it all begins at home…
It’s a long time frankly 46 years since I was in Kluang and 34 year since I was in Honkers on a visit learning all about their herbs and spices and how they rub their raw food with fiery spices to keep the flies off, instead of cooking the spices off first separately as they show you on TV, my first GLW ( good lady wife) cooked some authentic chicken based dishes for us . Time, I thought, to head for the meat market for some better priced, bulk buying.
My first trip to a meat market for, in my mind, some serious meat buying since having earned my spurs at the vegetable markets getting the off cuts from cabbages for nothing and letting the younger generation to pay for the rest ( more money for beer ) since I have been here a while this should have been a breeze. However, having gotten myself noticed, I simply asked - before the price - if I could buy a case of chickens. “Ha! Ha! Very funny,” he said, “Now what do you really want?” I repeated a case of chickens...”please?” I added. “Okay,” he said, “Now you’re just taking the p***, so tell me what you want or bugger off, I’m busy.”
I was obviously at the wrong stall or doing something wrong, so what was it?
Turns out he stocked some seventeen types of chicken, both fresh and frozen. So what grade was I interested in, what size, what type, what quality, and did I want them whole or in bits, and if so, what bits and did I want them skinless or boneless? Whole you say, so fresh or frozen, heads on or off, feet on or off, guts in or out and what grade and quality and size was I thinking of, before we even got to the price. I did finally buy a case of whole chickens but I have no idea what I paid that first time, I was just thankful to be out of there: cheaper they may have been, easy they were not!
After all of that I still recommend a proper food market trip, but before you go, make a list, don’t dress up and wear flashy jewellery. Decide what you’re going to buy and do a bit of thinking of where you are going to put it when you get it home. Clean out your fridge and throw away any spoiled produce. Take a cool bag with you and some bottles of frozen water to keep it all cool on the way home .
Totally different from Kluang and Honkers when you just looked into the cage pointed to one then walked away with it still warm with the feathers on under your arm to bring home to the GLW.
Keep the klicks going so till next time ,
Toodle pip Magic
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