Dan-R Meats

I was excited when Dan-​R Meats butcher shop (no relation to me!) opened in the back corner of Rocky’s market. Wanting to support the local business last Thanksgiving, I ordered pricey organic turkey, duck, and chicken — one each. I also paid a HEFTY fee to have the three birds boned. When I picked the poultry up the day before Thanksgiving, the chicken and the duck were bound inside the turkey, a la Turducken. This was odd since I had told the butcher I planned to add a layer of stuffing between each of the birds before I closed and roasted the dish, but no big deal to open, prepare, and re-​close, or so I thought. Come Thanksgiving morning I pulled out and opened the birds, only to find a few scrappy pieces of chicken and duck meat — not the whole boned birds I expected (and paid handsomely for). I had to run out and find duck and chicken on Thanksgiving morning, dig up boning instructions on the net, and learn to bone on the fly. Needless to say, Thanksgiving dinner made it to the table 2 hours late. Dan-​R Meats let me down when it counted. It’s a shame because the nice selection and knowledgeable staff would have kept me coming back.