Meat from the Dark Side

Cyberwar


Joined: 05/03/2010
Posts: 72

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 11:59

Does anyone have recent knowledge or experience of the position on bringing fresh meat for personal use from the other side, particularly pork.



Thanks

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 12:15

you can't - not changed for years..



Ask HIPPO who got his leg of pork confiscated................

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 15:09

Just have to hope you are not stopped and searched.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 15:09

There is a good pork butcher in alsancak

Jimbo51


Joined: 24/09/2010
Posts: 79

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 15:45

Go over the Famagusta crossing and travel thro' the army base and after a short while you will come to LITSA'S supermarket on the right.They have an excellent butchers shop inside and they also sell various bits that you can't buy in the north.The only thing that is risky is if they search your car coming back over.

Worth a try if you're passionate about piggies!!

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 16:03

mess 5 - i think they have a reputation of searching way above the average.....

flowerfairy


Joined: 17/09/2008
Posts: 1277

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 17:34

I agree with message 4, the Pork shop in Alsancak are very good. I had a lovely leg of pork from there, with no chance of it being confiscated.

Cyberwar


Joined: 05/03/2010
Posts: 72

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 18:24

Thanks for the info. all

brother



Joined: 29/01/2010
Posts: 446

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 18:55

I'm finding this fascinating for a different reason: Assuming the folks who sell pork in Alsancak are TC, I wonder how they deal with the concept of handling pork in a - albeit secular - Muslim country.

birdman



Joined: 20/09/2010
Posts: 690

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 20:54

They have their own pig farm, do their own slaughtering and therefore I cannot see them being Muslims ! LOL

steveafc


Joined: 12/12/2008
Posts: 405

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 22:16

why don't you go there and ask them ?

Colliedog


Joined: 16/03/2007
Posts: 132

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 22:16

Can you bring fresh meat from the UK into TRNC?

brother



Joined: 29/01/2010
Posts: 446

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 22:52

Re. Msg10: Aha! that explains it, thanks

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 22:58

msg12 Only if you are alive when you get here ..... otherwise No!!

pollymarples


Joined: 08/08/2010
Posts: 1778

Message Posted:
05/04/2011 23:24

Not that I have you understand, but the pork is better from the south and although I am never carrying any, I

have never been searched. THat's my story and I am sticking to it.,.Petrol is cheaper too now.



Best way to bring pork over is in your belly, found a great taverna that does pork chops to die for, size of dinner plates.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
06/04/2011 07:30

Hope you get your cholestoral checked out PollyMarples.

nostradamus


Joined: 15/04/2008
Posts: 557

Message Posted:
06/04/2011 07:43

Well, having bought considerable quantities of pork on both sides of the island I would agree that GC pork is far better than most of the imported rubbish that they sell in the supermarkets here. On the other hand, the pork from the Pork Shop is in a completely different category - it is really excellent. It has a good amount of fat on it and crackling! Pork from the supermarkets in the south never has crackling and it is very lean. Pork Shop for me!

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
06/04/2011 09:09

We have found everything from the Pork shop to be Top Notch. Their Meat, Bacon and sausage, etc. when we had a Xmas Turkey from there it really was something else.



They also do other meats and homemade Pork Pies and sometimes I have seen fresh Rabbit in stock.



I finid this to be like buying meat from a proper butcher like the ones in the 60,s my parents used to go to.

Also his Pork Chops and Steaks are sooooooooo big.

Catatonia


Joined: 26/10/2010
Posts: 27

Message Posted:
06/04/2011 09:16

Pork is far cheaper in the south, actually all meat is, beef mince less than half price of the north! I would prefer to buy in the north, but the prices are ridiculous! Try walking across at Lokmaci and shopping in the Debenham's food hall, probably best not to have the meat sticking out of your bag as you walk back, but so far I haven't been stopped.