I wish my dad was a butcher so we would get good cuts of meat for dinner!
My grandfather was a butcher. He used to slaughter animals and dress their flesh for sale during the 1950's.
Did it bother him at all to be part of the slaughter?  I live near a slaughter house and sometimes the smell.. furnaces for carcases.  Ugh.
It didn't bother him. He enjoyed prepareing meand and poultry for people.
I bet you had choice cuts from him, and there was actually a filet on your tbone steaks!
Oh yes! T-bones were his favorite steaks! He used to say that beef cut from the short loin is the best.
Wow you know a lot about cuts.  He must have taught you about them!  We had lots of hamburger growing up, because we had like USDA grade D meat that mom brought from the school cafeteria where she worked.
Steak
A steak () is a meat generally sliced across the muscle fibers, potentially including a bone. Exceptions, in which the meat is sliced parallel to the fibers, include the skirt steak cut from the plate, the flank steak cut from the abdominal muscles, and the silverfinger steak cut from the loin and includes three rib bones. In a larger sense, fish steaks, ground meat steaks, pork steak, and many more varieties of steak are known.
Steak is usually grilled, but can be pan
Butcher
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments. A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets, slaughter houses, or may be self-employed.
Butchery is an ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the domestication of livestock; its practitioners formed guilds in England as