SEATTLE — Walk up to the counter at Rain Shadow Meats and you may feel like you are entering a bygone era: A shiny white case is packed full of beef, sausages, poultry and pork, the prices and farm of origin hand-scrawled on labels atop each cut.
Take a few more steps and you’ll see something even less common in our modern lives: A whole pig hanging from a meat hook and visible through a window to the shop’s narrow walk-in refrigerator.
“A lot of people, they see those pigs hanging in there and they’re taken aback,” said Russell Flint, the 31-year-old owner of the Seattle butcher shop, which opened earlier this year.
But he has no plans to move the pigs. If anything customers should expect to be greeted by more recognizable slabs of meat in the future — that’s why there’s a meat hook rail running behind the counter and into the refrigerator.
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