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Rich - we had a Meat Club at the Pelton Arms in Greenwich.
I didn't contribute as the portions were generally family sized, so no good to me.
It's a good way to buy meat though.

Better than a man in a heavy overcoat and a couple of carrier bags offering to sell you some.
No, really, it happens. Properly packaged and sealed. Obviously shoplifted. Our pub never bought any meat this way. I can't say that about the customers.

More common in urban areas was the Meat Raffle.
There was one at the Hazells Club (Hazell, Watson and Viney) the printers where Dad used to work. He only bought one ticket a week, but I remember winning at least once a month.

That's just the vagaries of childhood, we probably only won a prize two or three times, but they went from full roasts down to sausages and mince. So in pre-freezer days, at least in our house, I remember gorging on meat "from Daddy's work".