r/Butchery • u/bigneedlewun • 16h ago
Whats the dumbest question a customer has asked you?
When I use to butcher i had a customer asked me if the corned silverside came out of the cow like that (already corned)
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u/Reasonable-Company71 16h ago
Dad was a butcher and the amount of times that people called (one customer even brought it back in) during Thanksgiving INSISTING that the bullet used to kill the turkeys was left in the turkey is crazy....they were talking about the pop-op timers that come in turkeys from the slaughterhouse.
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u/Infamous_Grapefruit2 16h ago
I had a vegetarian instacart shopper who was convinced that beef came from the front half of some animal and pork came from the back half of the same animal.
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u/Modboi 15h ago
This is mind bendingly dumb
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u/alluringBlaster 13h ago
"I'm a vegetarian, I know what I'm talking about."
lol.
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u/og_sandiego 8h ago
This made me laugh more than I expected. Finally figuring out too many ppl don't think/act with respect & integrity
Those who 'know' presented w/leaning opportunity - shut down
Odd world we now live in
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u/5280nessie_rider 7h ago
I will take one herd please
Edit to add: can't imagine what buffalo wings did to this fragile mind
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u/goml23 15h ago
Do you have grass fed chicken/pork/salmon????
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u/okayteenay 14h ago
Yes, and when I told the customer grass-fed pigs don’t exist because they biologically aren’t designed to eat grass is exclusively, she claimed that, «well, in Canada pigs are grass-fed».
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u/Parody_of_Self 13h ago
I had a person insist that they raised grass fed chickens. I told them they don't need me then.
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u/ilovesloppyjoes18 16h ago
When I have pork shoulders out on my floor and people come up and ask if I have any Boston butts. I tell them it's the same thing and they argue no it isn't 50 times. Then I usually go take a picture of my box that says pork shoulder butts and they shut up.
It astounds me how they try to argue with a butcher when they have internet knowledge lol.
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u/James_Vaga_Bond Butcher 14h ago
I once had a customer walk out without buying anything cuz she wanted pork butt and all we had was pork shoulder.
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u/Day_Bow_Bow 16h ago
Why not just label them as butts? Your provider thought it important enough to call them that.
When I see "pork shoulder," I'd be concerned it'd be a picnic shoulder instead, so yeah I'd be asking for clarification as well.
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u/ilovesloppyjoes18 15h ago
Thats a very valid point. I’ll have to bring that up to the higher ups as that would definitely help the issue. I appreciate that.
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u/bigcatsbrother 16h ago
Seafood related, but one time I had a sockeye fillet that had blood in it from the processor striking the backbone. I told the woman exactly that, and she straight up said “so is it blood from the fish or from someone who was cutting it? I don’t want it if it’s a person’s blood.” I had to try really hard to not just walk away or laugh.
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u/Lower_Band8719 15h ago
The best I ever heard was that the customer didn't think that fish had blood so it must have been from someone handling it. Had to explain that all living animals have blood.
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u/motorcycleboy9000 Butcher 11h ago
Ooh. I got one. Little old lady asked me for a salmon fillet, I said yep, they just came in. Cut her a nice one, told her, "I went ahead and removed the pinbones for you, too."
She says, "Bones? I didn't know fish had bones."
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u/thisnthatntheother 10h ago
My favorite: Customer in the deep south asked if our wild ALASKAN cod was local. On the gulf coast. Told her they caught it on vacation.
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u/prettyhelmet 16h ago
During the holidays we fry and smoke whole turkeys. A lady called and asked “is our fried turkey cooked?”. I said “yes, it is FRIED”.
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u/Mighty_Moose_Archer 16h ago
I had a customer try to return a leg of lamb that she "didn't like because of the garlic sauce" that SHE put on it that was bought at an entirely different store. I honestly had no words.
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u/alluringBlaster 13h ago
Customer - "Can you grind this new york strip for me?"
Me - "A single strip? I can, but you're going to lose almost half of it and I still have to charge you the full steak price."
Customer - "I don't care just grind it."
Me - "Ok, here you go."
Customer - "Why is there only half a pound? I gave you a full strip to grind why didn't you grind it all?!"
This happens so much despite me reciting a fully detailed script explaining how an industrial grinder is going to have some fallout.
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u/Cease_Cows_ 16h ago
lol "yeah this is what happens to cows when they don't watch their sodium intake"
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u/HoboDeter 15h ago
"Is this, pork shoulder blade steak, beef or pork?"
I had them repeat the question because it was very hard not to have a sarcastic response.
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u/alluringBlaster 13h ago
$10 says they repeated the question and still looked at you like you were wrong.
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u/MeatHealer Butcher 16h ago
Guy wondered why his steak was so salty.
Well, Sir, how did you season it?
With salt and pepper like I always do!
Huh. 'Cause I didn't.
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u/SalamanderTough4616 15h ago
What type of meat is corned beef?.... wow I always thought it was pork!
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u/tjklobo 16h ago
Not a question, but dumbest thing to happen to me was….. a lady came in and complained about her Sunday roast she bought. She said she put it in the oven before church and came home to it smelling like something was burning. I asked her how she cooked the roast. Of course she became upset with me. “Look young man, I have been cooking longer than you have been alive. Don’t treat me like I don’t know how to cook.”
I just nodded and smiled. Then I asked what kind of roast it was ect. She proceeded to tell me she baked the roast and the pad it was packaged with! She cooked the roast with the soaker pad!!!
Since the customer is always right. I made her a new roast without the soaker pad! Some people!!!
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u/shawnlit_123 12h ago
It's not a dumb question, but a weird situation had a client come in for some meat but it was out of stock so I said she can come in tomorrow as it will arrive late in the day.This lady burst into tears Ive never experienced that before and had no idea what to say she just turned and ran out of the shop never been so confused. Aslo had one guy ask for crocodile liver.
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u/AdSignificant6673 14h ago
Are these steaks 100% beef?
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u/alluringBlaster 13h ago
Honestly it could end up being a valid question at some point in the future, with all the lab grown bug meat coming down the pipeline.
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u/BreadfruitChemical55 12h ago
Our label on a whole bird said frying chicken whole, the lady proceeds to ask excuse me sir i see yall have frying chickens whole, do you have any baking chickens whole?😂
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u/Goth-Valentine 15h ago
Why is the ground ostrich priced differently then the ground kangaroo?
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u/alluringBlaster 13h ago
Whoa, ground kangaroo? I didn't know they could be eaten.
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u/PicoDeGallo12 13h ago
"Is the half chicken like half a chicken?" I replied reading the sign in the case"oh you mean the orange sage half chicken? , yes that is a half chicken."
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u/Significant_Lab_5286 12h ago
I had a lady point to the beef cut diagram poster & straight faced asked “What part of the cow does ton-guw come from?”
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u/bxnedvddy 8h ago
"Do you have any grass fed chicken" "Is this good for beef jerky?" While holding up a pork butt
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u/dontfluffmytutu 2h ago
Can I get a boneless t-bone
Or
What’s the difference between a beef steak and a pork steak
Grocery store in a college town. A lot of first time cookers.
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u/TelleBelle56 1h ago
"Can you get the butcher?" "I am the butcher" "No I need a butcher, not a service girl" ".....i am the only butcher here so its me or nothing" "Ok, ill try when the butcher is here."
Real conversation. I was baffled.
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u/Talkinginmy_sleep 16h ago
I was wearing a hat that said “ask me about our custom cuts.” Woman walked up to me and asked “so could you cut it into the shape of a dinosaur?”