John Andrews wrote: > > Regarding FLESHER, > > This thread was thoroughly gone into a few weeks ago on the Ayrshire list. > I've included below a copy of a letter I posted there at that time. > > It has been established that the difference between a flesher and a butcher > is that a flesher kills his own meat and retails it, while a butcher buys in > meat for retail. > > Fleshing is also the act of skinning an animal in a slaughterhouse but > slaughterhouse employees are multi skilled these days and no one person does > only skinning or has the title of flesher. > > Before we start getting letters about Fleshers being buffalo skinners or > someone cutting blubber from whales, please remember there is not much > buffalo or whale hunting in Scotland! > > Have a nice one :^) > > Cheers, > > John. > > > SNIPPED > ................................................................... Point of Order! There may not be much whale hunting 'IN' Scotland now, but Dundee was a famous centre of Whale hunting in the past - carried out in the Atlantic, presumably. So a Scotsman could have been connected with whales . No argument with the reast of this thread. -- Don McEwan West Lothian SCOTLAND Jings, Crivvens & Help Ma Boab.! <mailto:don.mcewan@virgin.net>