Funny Butcher & Meat Cutter Hats

A butcher's slogan list reads like a pun factory: PLEASED TO MEAT YOU, A CUT ABOVE, MEAT YOUR MAKER. They are the phrases the trade has been printing on shop signs and aprons for years, and they are the ones that sell. This collection puts them on hats and adds the lines the wearer would actually say at the block. The trade has more prestige than it used to. Craft butcher shops popped up all over the country in the five years before 2016, and Fleishers opened its first shop in Kingston, New York in 2004 and now runs a 12-week butcher training program. At the same time, most supermarkets label the person behind the counter a Meat Department Associate, so plenty of working meat cutters like having the old word back. According to O*NET, they cut, trim, bone, tie and grind meat for retail, and the r/Butchery community has around 126,000 members swapping stories. You'll find BUTCHER and MEAT CUTTER as plain badges, the puns for the counter, and bits about breaking down whole cows, working in a fridge with knives and trimming the fat. WHOLE ANIMAL BUTCHER is for the nose-to-tail shop owner, and I PROCESS MY OWN DEER is for the hunter who skips the processor and takes the hide off himself. This is not BBQ Pitmaster, which is cooking, or Deer Season, which is the hunt: it is the cutting. Every design is custom embroidered on a dad hat, a gift for the meat-department lifer.