my father used to be a butcher.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments. A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets, slaughter houses, or may be self-employed. An ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the domestication of livestock, butchers formed guilds in England as far back as 1272. Today, many jurisdictions offer trade certifications for butchers. Some areas expect a three-year apprenticeship followed by the option of becoming a master butcher. Butchery is a traditional line of work. In the industrialized world, slaughterhouses use butchers to slaughter the animals, performing one or a few of the steps repeatedly as specialists on a semiautomated disassembly line. The steps include stunning (rendering the animal incapacitated), exsanguination (severing the carotid or brachial arteries to facilitate blood removal), skinning (removing the hide or pelt) or scalding and dehairing (pork), evisceration (removing the viscera) and splitting (dividing the carcass in half longitudinally).\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wish my dad was a butcher so we would get good cuts of meat for dinner!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "My grandfather was a butcher. He used to slaughter animals and dress their flesh for sale during the 1950's."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Did it bother him at all to be part of the slaughter?  I live near a slaughter house and sometimes the smell.. furnaces for carcases.  Ugh."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It didn't bother him. He enjoyed prepareing meand and poultry for people."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I bet you had choice cuts from him, and there was actually a filet on your tbone steaks!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh yes! T-bones were his favorite steaks! He used to say that beef cut from the short loin is the best."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow you know a lot about cuts.  He must have taught you about them!  We had lots of hamburger growing up, because we had like USDA grade D meat that mom brought from the school cafeteria where she worked."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Uhg, that must have been terrible. But, you could use them to make ground meat steak!"}]