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A local butcher started doing delivery where I live and they deliver incredibly high quality meat. It’s been a revelation. I combine that with two other source

A local butcher started doing delivery where I live and they deliver incredibly high quality meat. It’s been a revelation. I combine that with two other sources for delivery: Costco via Instacart, which gets you all the bulk needs and some produce, basically you never have to worry about quality. And then Amazon Fresh for cheap staples and pantry items. We have a really high quality vegetarian market too that delivers on Instacart. If you do it wrong, you essentially will have a bad time. Amazon has horrible meat and not great produce, but Costco and the local butcher have amazing stuff. I used to hate shopping for groceries online, but in all honesty it’s gotten quite good if you live in the right area and figure out good places to look. I’ve changed my mind.

awinder 6y ago
How did you go about finding a local butcher, I’ve found locally that this isn’t like a thing where people have a large web presence & giant “this is where you should be buying meat” lit signs pointing the way
- tim58 6y ago
  I always find the best local food sources from word of mouth. Usually there's not a large web presence because web is extra overhead, and high quality food has a much higher demand than supply so there's no need for it. A good place to meet local people to talk about food is a farmer's market.
grawprog 6y ago
I dunno, I guess I just think of things differently, when I move, the first thing I do is look for the local butchers, delis or produce shops, they've almost always got the best quality for price outside of farm fresh stuff. Bulk stuff is always a planned trip to scrounge all the best bulk sections around. Wandering into random food stores you find on your travels and discovering little stores selling spices or vegetables you've never seen before. Fighting with little old ladies over the best cheese in the Italian deli. I enjoy that stuff. Food brings me joy. Finding and choosing the best ingredients for the stuff I make has always been something i've enjoyed. Well, once I learned to cook well enough that I came to appreciate it. These things that come as revelations were always available to you. I may be being presumptuous to you and the other commenters, but it seems to be more that the change in routine and living situations has caused a lot of people to reassess their food in general. These things are great and positive. I may just be overly pessimistic, but I worry for that everyone like you and the others, there's ten others who never think about it and continue on as is, in a more convenient and ever disconnected way. I feel like there's a good way and bad way this could all play out. I guess I'm just most worried that rather than small local businesses getting their stuff out there, they'll get drowned out by the big players that are going to start dropping into this market hard. It could go either way. I just really don't want to see it got the big corporate route yet again. Like you and others say, this is an opportunity for small local businesses to get out their and I have seen it first hand. At my current job I share space with a new small local organic produce delivery company and those are the kinds of people I'd like to see do well from this.
- ketamine__ 6y ago
  > Fighting with little old ladies over the best cheese in the Italian deli. Where can I do this?
  - grawprog 6y ago
    Well, in vancouver on commercial drive at the Santa Barbara is where I used to go. They get pretty ruthless. Or cioffi's on Hastings...but that place was bit more chill. Still always busy though.
- nwienert 6y ago
  Hey, a chacun sa vérité. I do miss the Italian deli that closed. It’s not that we don’t frequent the corner markets and farmers markets either! And again, the delivery we get is a small local butcher, and I imagine once things open up we’ll visit when we have time. I think of online as replacing just the droll half, or when times in a pinch. The pantry items, milk. It saves time for trips to my favorite deli. No more DFW-commencement-speech Safeway coupon rush hour traffic jams. More time for the farmers market! You sound like a nostalgic grandpa pining for the good old days that are passing, but to be honest, if anything the online half has opened up a lot of room for fun excursions in the real world. I share the hope that local businesses thrive as well. The Asian fish market ladies certainly know me better than before. One not need replace the other, but the optionality has made things dramatically better for me, at least.
  - L_Rahman 6y ago
    > DFW-commencement-speech Safeway coupon rush hour traffic jams Has this is water become so widely known that we can simply reference it in conversation like this?
  - grawprog 6y ago
    >You sound like a nostalgic grandpa pining for the good old days that are passing I'm really glad I'm not actually a nostalgic grandpa at 30...I feel like i would probably have made some pretty poor life choices along the way.

awinder 6y ago

How did you go about finding a local butcher, I’ve found locally that this isn’t like a thing where people have a large web presence & giant “this is where you should be buying meat” lit signs pointing the way

tim58 6y ago
I always find the best local food sources from word of mouth. Usually there's not a large web presence because web is extra overhead, and high quality food has a much higher demand than supply so there's no need for it. A good place to meet local people to talk about food is a farmer's market.

grawprog 6y ago

I dunno, I guess I just think of things differently, when I move, the first thing I do is look for the local butchers, delis or produce shops, they've almost always got the best quality for price outside of farm fresh stuff. Bulk stuff is always a planned trip to scrounge all the best bulk sections around. Wandering into random food stores you find on your travels and discovering little stores selling spices or vegetables you've never seen before. Fighting with little old ladies over the best cheese in the Italian deli. I enjoy that stuff. Food brings me joy. Finding and choosing the best ingredients for the stuff I make has always been something i've enjoyed. Well, once I learned to cook well enough that I came to appreciate it. These things that come as revelations were always available to you. I may be being presumptuous to you and the other commenters, but it seems to be more that the change in routine and living situations has caused a lot of people to reassess their food in general. These things are great and positive. I may just be overly pessimistic, but I worry for that everyone like you and the others, there's ten others who never think about it and continue on as is, in a more convenient and ever disconnected way. I feel like there's a good way and bad way this could all play out. I guess I'm just most worried that rather than small local businesses getting their stuff out there, they'll get drowned out by the big players that are going to start dropping into this market hard. It could go either way. I just really don't want to see it got the big corporate route yet again. Like you and others say, this is an opportunity for small local businesses to get out their and I have seen it first hand. At my current job I share space with a new small local organic produce delivery company and those are the kinds of people I'd like to see do well from this.

ketamine__ 6y ago
> Fighting with little old ladies over the best cheese in the Italian deli. Where can I do this?
- grawprog 6y ago
  Well, in vancouver on commercial drive at the Santa Barbara is where I used to go. They get pretty ruthless. Or cioffi's on Hastings...but that place was bit more chill. Still always busy though.
nwienert 6y ago
Hey, a chacun sa vérité. I do miss the Italian deli that closed. It’s not that we don’t frequent the corner markets and farmers markets either! And again, the delivery we get is a small local butcher, and I imagine once things open up we’ll visit when we have time. I think of online as replacing just the droll half, or when times in a pinch. The pantry items, milk. It saves time for trips to my favorite deli. No more DFW-commencement-speech Safeway coupon rush hour traffic jams. More time for the farmers market! You sound like a nostalgic grandpa pining for the good old days that are passing, but to be honest, if anything the online half has opened up a lot of room for fun excursions in the real world. I share the hope that local businesses thrive as well. The Asian fish market ladies certainly know me better than before. One not need replace the other, but the optionality has made things dramatically better for me, at least.
- L_Rahman 6y ago
  > DFW-commencement-speech Safeway coupon rush hour traffic jams Has this is water become so widely known that we can simply reference it in conversation like this?
- grawprog 6y ago
  >You sound like a nostalgic grandpa pining for the good old days that are passing I'm really glad I'm not actually a nostalgic grandpa at 30...I feel like i would probably have made some pretty poor life choices along the way.