Yahoo News Butcher praises kindness of customer paying for a stranger's Christmas meat
An anonymous gift left in a Hull butcher will make a world of difference to a pensioner in need this Christmas.
The owners of Don Dixon's Butcher in Holderness Road said one of their regular customers donated a £20 note to pay for a large bag of meat for any pensioner struggling amid the cost of living crisis. Inspired by this generous act, co-owners Steve Pennycad and David Jenkinson have both donated £20 each, meaning three people will now receive a food donation for Christmas.
Steve said: "A regular customer who comes in and bought his weekly meat as he usually does and I said 'Thank you' and then he said 'There you go Steve' and put £20 on the counter-top.
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"I said, 'What's that for?' and he said to keep it behind the till and when you see a pensioner who is struggling over the Christmas period, give them a bag of meat worth £20 and I've paid for it. It's really nice. I said, 'You don't have to do that' and he said 'I want to do it, I do it in all the local shops.'
"It blew us away really, how nice is it. No matter how much money you've got, to give it away to someone who you don't even know was really kind, we thought."
When Steve shared the news on the Don Dixon Butcher Facebook page it "went crazy" with more than 1,000 "likes" and people from all over the country commenting. One person posted: "What a nice gentleman what a lovely and generous thing to do. There is some kind people in Hull thinking of others."
Steve added: "Pensioners are struggling at this time of year when it gets cold. Some have lost their winter fuel payments. So we thought it would be nice for us to donate something too."
While the cost of living is clearly proving tough for some customers, Steve said business has been good and credits the variety of quality meats and special recipes. Particularly popular are sirloin and rib-eye steaks, 'chilli bombs' made with minced steak, mozzarella and chilli seasoning wrapped in bacon, hunter's chicken, beef wellington, and pork with stuffing.
Steve said: "We are busy and we do all kinds of different things you can't find in a supermarket so that's what keeps us going, really. We specialise in certain things you can't buy anywhere else and we introduce new things all the time."
Explaining the legacy behind the shop's name, Steve added: "We've had the shop 25 years. Don Dixon is the guy we bought the shop off. He had the shop since 1984 so it's 40 years old this year. Don retired in the early 2000s and me and Dave who worked for him took it on. We've kept the name because it was a well known business."
