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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
It's a butcher shop. It looks like one inside, smells like one, there's no getting around it. They also have a variety of fish, mostly frozen but most of them are not "commercial brand" fish but rather, line-caught and hauled in to be frozen by a fishmonger and sold at Best Meats. Can get some pretty nice pieces of salmon there.
But if you remember old fashioned butcher shops - they were not "pleasant" places. The smell of a back room that cuts up sides of beef without a wall to separate it from the sales floor is not pleasant.
They have good local Florida cheese too by the way, right at the counter.
Earth Fare's beef is grass fed and grass finished, so I won't buy it. I want beef grain finished. Grass finished is dry and gamey.
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My wife's grandfather had a "semi- kosher" butcher shop in Roxbury Massachusetts, which is why this one turned me off. The outside reminded me of his
I was referring to the OUTSIDE of the place on 301. Never could get myself to park and walk in. We had a German butcher shop in the town in NJ where we had a business for over 25 years and it was as clean and mostly odor free (other than for the stinky cheese) as any food store I have been in.
As for Earth Fare, we visited today and it was (IMO) just a poor copy of Whole Foods but just as expensive. A pint of Ben and Jerry's was $7! Amy's frozen entrees were $2+ more than Publix. Their bakery had virtually nothing and their meat and fish dept couldn't even come close to Whole Foods on looks alone. We don't shop much at Whole Foods except for a couple specialty items my wife likes but Whole Foods (***IN OUR OPINION***) is first class compared to Earth Fare. I'm a chocolate chip cookie aficionado and bought one on my search for the "ultimate chocolate chip cookie" and Earth Fare (IMO) rated below Nabisco.