Скачать или смотреть Amazing Vintage Photographs Of Cat'S Meat Sellers In London In The Early 20Th Century !

The cat's meat man used to be a common sight in London and other large towns between the mid 1800s and the 1930s. If you think they sold cat meat, you are entirely wrong. What a cats meat seller sold was meat to cats.








From the mid 1800s, cat's meat men wandered the streets of London, hawking food for cats and dogs door to door. They sold mostly horse meat, rendered down from the hundreds of horses slaughtered in the metropolis every week, once they were too old or sick to work. These feline provisioners bulked out their product with meat too old or diseased to sell to humans, selling it for about 2 and a half pence/lb (about 1.29/lb in today value).


Victorian social researcher Henry Mayhew estimated there were 1000 cat's meat sellers in London in 1861, serving about 300,000 cats, one for every house (allowing for multiple cats in some homes, plus strays). Each cat's meat seller walked a particular route serving a few hundred households, their approach marked by mewling cats who knew it meant dinner time.


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