Watso, days gone by we would buy a side or whole of beer or lamb and share with another family or two.
Even recall a few times we went out to a farm selected an a cow and had it slaughtered. One time as a kid my parents asked me to pick, I must have had a good eye as the farmer said he wanted that one for himself.
Yeah gone completely off this pre packaged meat, may even put in a compliant to woolies