I like Borrassà very much. Every time I arrive in the Emporda I go there for shopping and start relaxing as soon as I park in the small town square.
I don’t eat much meat myself and for most of my life I was totally vegetarian. The idea of pigs being reared in barns upsets me as do the conditions that all animals have to suffer as they live out lives in service to human beings.
But today I am sharing a photo of the butchers in Borrassa
It is strange to find in myself the possibility of liking a butchers shop but I do like this one.
They are very friendly and non-intimidating. I don’t have any anxiety when I go in even thought I am not in my natural element – I have to speak Catalan and I need to talk meat about which I am almost completely ignorant.
So why do I go there?
To get food for Bonnie of course. After her tick disease I changed her diet onto one of raw meaty bones and it has taken me into many butchers shops and turned me at last into something more like a typical Catalan housewife.
I ask about liver and kidney, I buy whole skinned rabbits, I peer with interest at the pigs trotters, I try to buy green tripe (impossible to find so far), I stop the butcher from removing the chicken’s head and feet.
“No, I want all of it!” I say confidently.
What a difference from the old days! When I tried to buy chicken breast and came home with all the parts, not knowing what to do with it. Now I would know
My wife also buys kidneys and liver for our two dogs. We haven´t the heart (parden the offal/awful pun) to tell the lovely old lady in the deli that it is not for me but for our pets!