Friday, May 16, 2008

Meat delivery at Seoudi in Maadi; veal, anyone?

On our way home from the CAC book sale this morning, we passed by Seoudi to pick up bread for lunch, and as we were leaving we happened upon the meat delivery; a taxi driver was pulling - with his bare hands - on a small, thin, bloody sheet that was stuffed into his hot taxi trunk. Wrapped in the sheet was one and a half a skinned calves. Among tires, a rusty gasoline tank, oily wrenches and other things people keep in old, dirty trunks, he had managed to squeeze in a cow that he was now busy unloading in the scolding sun.

I'm trying not to think about how long that meat had been in the trunk or who else touched it, but it may be a while before I can get myself to purchase veal at Seoudi again.
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