Has anyone experienced a chemical on their food from some butchers? I don't know if it's something they put on their knives or on their surfaces. It might be that they use surface-cleansers and do not wipe them off, but it is very unpleasant, from my mouth to my gut. I do not buy my meat from this butcher, but I go there for fat. He sliced up the top-rump fat on a surface so it could be either that or the knife. I've experienced another chemical in ground beef which I think is a preservative, which rendered it inedible raw. This doesn't seem quite as bad, in the short term at least. It's a shame though that I have little to no choice where to get my fat from. There is one other butcher which I haven't been to yet, I suppose I could hope that they aren't so chemical-heavy... It's disgusting that they put these chemicals in contact with out food...

Thanks.

I blasted the slices of fat with water, then dried with kitchen-roll before eating. I think that helped.

Dude, you're better of not eating it if it has some chemicals on it that burn your throat.

You nuts? stop eating it right now and just go find another source or tell your butcher to stop using chemicals. Although I'd never trust that butcher again.

    I have felt ill effects or tasted residues from some butchers' meat. 

    True, they may not realize there are residues, or or never had a clue that it's affecting anyone adversely.