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ORANJEMUND DISCUSSIONS! => Things I Remember About Oranjemund! => Topic started by: Michael Alexander on August 22, 2007, 07:02:58 PM

Title: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Michael Alexander on August 22, 2007, 07:02:58 PM
Any of you lot remember going to the abatoir on school tours? Baaad place to be , if you were a sheep!

:)
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: SandyB on August 23, 2007, 06:42:03 AM
Did  the  abbatoir tour  at  school  and  again  when I satred  again  as an  apprentice ...  then  when  I  worked  in  Town electtrical ..  I  had  to  go  there ... and work   one  thing  going  on  the tour .. the  true horror  is  hidden  from  our  innocent  eyes ..  another thing  going  there  to  work ...  the smell  of  fear  ..  the  blood  the  gore .. I  was  sick  to  my core ..  refused  to  work  there  again ...  ended  up  going  off  meat for  a  good  many . years
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Michael Alexander on August 23, 2007, 07:39:02 AM
Heck Sandy, you've made me lus for a braai now....   ;)
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Barbara Simond on April 07, 2008, 07:34:29 PM
I tell people that we were taken to the abbatoir on a school trip and they are all shocked - I think it has mentally scarred me for life. I remember going and at the end of the trip we were offered pink vienna sausages to eat... I still can't eat them now - they were in a big plastic bucket and still warm!! EEUUUGGGHHH
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 07, 2008, 07:55:06 PM
Thats the best time to eat Viennas, when they are fresh and straight out the cooker.....
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: georg ruf jr. on April 08, 2008, 03:10:21 AM
Yes Michael.
But worse of all Barbara. The sausages are made of DEAD PIGS. eeehhh!
laughpoint
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee) on April 08, 2008, 06:25:58 AM
Why -  it's obvious the pig should be dead before they make the sausage of vienna.  I would really be upset if I bought sausage or a vienna and the cow or pig or antelope or chicken or whatever it's made of, was still alive inside!

:emot19:
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 08, 2008, 07:03:40 AM
Ja, I agree with Dalene, it would ruin the music if it was still alive, all the squeeling while you're trying to bite it.... just way too noisy for me......
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee) on April 08, 2008, 07:12:26 AM
So your favourite vienna then  -  silent pink vienna!
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: georg ruf jr. on April 08, 2008, 09:53:29 AM
Just imagine that squeeling sound when you bite in a sausage...
:emot19:
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: DUNJA WRBKA on April 08, 2008, 05:39:09 PM
 :bagno1:  I remember a school visit to the abbatoir and remember no amount of washing and bathing for a couple of days got rid of that terrible stench that seemed to have seeped into my hair and clothes.  I still am unable to eat polony today.
I remember it was Claire & Rebecca Sanderson's father that was in charge of the abbatoir during my visit.... Yikes, cannot say its a job that I would jump to have ... hehehehe
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 08, 2008, 06:11:18 PM
That would be Mike Sanderson
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Koos on April 09, 2008, 04:30:32 AM
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 08, 2008, 03:10:21 AM
Yes Michael.
But worse of all Barbara. The sausages are made of DEAD PIGS. eeehhh!
laughpoint
i would hope so.
imagine trying to put a live pig into a meat grinder.
:emot19:
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: barb (Fry) on April 09, 2008, 08:08:27 AM
Had a flash there of Pink Floyds The Wall
but it wasn't pigs it was children
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: georg ruf jr. on April 09, 2008, 08:28:35 AM
Yep. Butb I think in the live show they had inflated animal including pigs flying about near the end.
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Bev Coates (Now Walker) on April 12, 2008, 02:56:59 PM
Gosh....i cant ever remember visiting the abbatior..............i wouldnt have gone  and dont think my mum would have let them take me lol.  she used to warn me never to go over to that side of town ...........................
....ive always had this real big  hatred of the places......and i have dreamt so many times that i have been in an abbatior  where all the animals are terrifeld and trying to get out..........bleating and mooing       ....and im in the middle of it all and trying to get them all out ...its a real nightmare.....think it could be my guilt from eating meat........I used to think anyone who wanted to go inside one of those places was sick.....i thought anyone who could kill an animal...was sick...evil.....not normal..........HOWEVER...lol....now im grown up....well older....i just dont think about it and can take a more adult view on it all......but i  still cant understand how anyone would ever ever want to be a butcher.......sorry to all of those who are..........
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 12, 2008, 03:07:35 PM
Aunty Bev..... I'm just about to braai a mooing Fillet steak on the fire.....

bighug
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Bev Coates (Now Walker) on April 12, 2008, 03:12:07 PM
mmmm give us a bit.....lol.....thats my problem...i do like meat....just dunt like where it comes from......... notfair
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 12, 2008, 03:14:38 PM
Well, I never killed this cow myself..... I just know it is from Namibia, clear open veld, clean air, sky and no enhancers to the meat..... Martin Niemand reckons I must just use olive oil, salt and pepper..... 4 to 5 minutes... the best steak in the world.... and not to mention the beer....

Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Bev Coates (Now Walker) on April 12, 2008, 03:19:35 PM
yes i must admit i have never tasted  braai     as good here in britian....we dont know what shite were eating half the time     they fill the animals with drugs keep them in disgusting conditons......we get unfit meat  found being sold by unscrupelous  (cant say it never mind bloody spell it lol) butchers......

Mike dont know if sandys been in touch today but what date is the reunion....we have a disagreement going on.....but am sure im right......is it the 13th to 15th or whenever
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 12, 2008, 03:52:27 PM
Aunty Bev... It's way past your bedtime........   bighug  The reunion is over the weekend that has the no 14 in the month of November... oh and thats 2008...   :culo1:
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Patricia Lotte on April 13, 2008, 03:45:28 AM
Quote from: Michael Alexander on April 12, 2008, 03:14:38 PM
Well, I never killed this cow myself..... I just know it is from Namibia, clear open veld, clean air, sky and no enhancers to the meat..... Martin Niemand reckons I must just use olive oil, salt and pepper..... 4 to 5 minutes... the best steak in the world.... and not to mention the beer....



Hey, is Martin still in town? We emailed each other a few times after my last trip to Oranjemund, but have since lost touch.
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 13, 2008, 05:28:48 AM
Yep! Yep! Martin is still here, I know for a fact that he is also one of the Lurkers in here..... I overcooked my steak last night, Damn Drinking and Braaing sometime don't mix..........
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Patricia Lotte on April 13, 2008, 05:42:04 AM
Please tell him I say hi. As for the  braaibraai, hope you paid you  braai license ... :emot19:
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Michael Alexander on April 13, 2008, 05:46:05 AM
Gee.... I was lucky enough to pay mine on the 1st of April before 12.00  ....hehehehe! I will tell Martin....
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: toonfandangl on March 02, 2009, 02:22:51 PM
Hello Michael

I did not go on any school tour to the Abattoir's I was to old at the time.

We were going on holiday down to Cape Town the slaughter man at the abattoir used to hire out his car, forgot his name. (anyone remember him 70-71)

Had to go out to the killing fields feedme to see him and and make the hire arrangements it was a Pontiac big yank tank.

After we had done the deal he took me on a tour of the place, and at the end of the tour I was given this bunch of pink fingers.

While reading through these posts I relies they were Vienna sausages because at the time I "puked" all the way home.
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Andrew Darné on May 20, 2010, 11:11:37 PM
Albeit not Oranjemund, I remember being in Sub B or Std 1 and going to the Kuruman abattoir. It didn't change my outlook on meat but definitley not an outing for junior school...!!!
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Alfred Boehme on May 21, 2010, 09:05:10 PM
OOOOOOhhhh

I like my meat only just sealed, stealing the end pieces of the worse before the braai mmmmmmmmm very lekker

I recall a time at town electric somebody left and he brought "Row-Huck bretions" half the guys took the meat of and cooked it before eating mmmmmmmm I like them also but with real silver side, lots of onions and black pepper.
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Mike Voden (RIP) on May 22, 2010, 05:15:31 PM
Alfie, if I remember, you'll eat anything................!!!!!!!!!1
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Alfred Boehme on May 22, 2010, 05:28:28 PM
Spot On
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Paul (Pepe) Freemantle on May 31, 2010, 07:24:28 AM
@Sandy, my sentiments the same. Also worke in Town Electrical beginning of appieship and had to work at the Abbatoir. Erwin Lissrer and myself spent many hours working there and replacing all the fluorescent fittings in the slaughter house. I was also put off meat for many years. Today I am very fussy of what meat I will eat and my wife does not understand it LOL
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Alfred Boehme on June 03, 2010, 07:14:53 PM
I spent some time in the abattoir first as a Appie elect then refrigeration didn't mind the meat but the smell of burning hair when the blow torched the pig trotters etc mmmmmmmmm not nice used to get quite nauseous

The biltong in the room outside mmmmmm had to keep a close eye on those fans get my drift, nudge - nudge wink - wink
Title: Re: Abatoir and school tours!
Post by: Mike Voden (RIP) on June 03, 2010, 08:25:08 PM
Is that where it all went. I often wondered about your big pockets Alfie.............