Comments on: Butchers as the New Porn Stars?

By: artisanal thinking – Curiosity, Obsession and Dogged Endurance

artisanal thinking – Curiosity, Obsession and Dogged Endurance — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:12:00 +0000

[...] & sisters have been media darlings as of late; fodder enough for a self-analytical magazine. Concerns over the possibility of this popular interest being nothing more than the passionate intensity of [...]

By: This Little Piggy – Meaty Morsels & Musings » Blog Archive » Adventures of a Bacon Curer, by Maynard Davies

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:44:20 +0000

[...] is quite a refreshing change from the foodie hype that has once-respectable newspapers fawning over butchers as the new rock stars. Maynard, in contrast, is not some “boutique” bacon-maker, and the word [...]

By: This Little Piggy – Meaty Morsels & Musings » Blog Archive » This Little Piggy Featured on Nerve.com

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:21:53 +0000

[...] the request was legit, and today you can read the feature on Nerve.com. Now, as you may know from earlier posts taking others to task for fawning over butchers as the new porn stars, I don’t believe that butchers have any special insight to offer when it comes to personal [...]

By: This Little Piggy – Meaty Morsels & Musings » Blog Archive » “Butcher Love”

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:05:11 +0000

[...] « Butchers as the New Porn Stars? “Butcher [...]

By: Larbo

Larbo — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:06:07 +0000

Thanks, mochapj, for the link to the Atlantic article about people’s expectations when they go the restaurant of a “celebrity” chef. The story of the couple who left Alinea in tears in the middle of their dinner when it looked like another table was getting something more special than what they were getting is mind-blowing.

Delving a little deeper into this “hipster hottie butcher phenomenon, I’m finding that there’s a whole cultural history linking butchers with masculinity, animality, and sexuality.

As weird and wacky as it remains, it’s nothing new. It’s just the latest rewriting of a very deeply embedded story. Ah, more meat for another post!

By: Larbo

Larbo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:45:36 +0000

And the prize goes to mochapj! When I saw that there was a WWE wrestler whose moniker actually was “Meat,” I knew his picture had to go in here.

By: mochapj

mochapj — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:07:10 +0000

Just read this. It’s rather timely given the discussion:

http://food.theatlantic.com/back-of-the-house/should-chefs-get-out-of-the-kitchen-1.php

By: mochapj

mochapj — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:01:04 +0000

Oh, I got it.

Wikipedia is such a wonderful thing.

His nickname is Meat. What a horrible nickname.

By: mochapj

mochapj — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:59:53 +0000

I’m going to lob a weak guess (even though I can’t make it to your neck of the woods) and say he’s there because he looks like a beefcake?

Seriously though, I have no idea who that even is. Some sort of wrestler, or tanning bed salesman perhaps?

By: Larbo

Larbo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:01:26 +0000

I have been biting my tongue. That’s where all the pictures for the abliguritions postings come from!

Scott, you’re quite right: with articles like this fantasizing about butchers being as well hung as the meat they’re carving up, how long can it be before they latch on to sausagemakers as the next Priapic god of their idolatry? If you start posting pictures posing with your HOT sausage (O, that n’duja!), I won’t be answerable for the consequences!

Free tickets to my next meat mosh for anyone who figures out what Sean Stasiak’s photo is doing in this post!