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As a student I worked in the Meat Depot of Bishops Supermarket chain, (about 50-60 supermarkets, was bought by Budgens).
This was late '70s into early '80s.
They imported 'Frozen Beef Shin' from Botswana. This was cut into about inch long rounds on a bandsaw and packed on shrunkwrapped polystyrene trays. The variation in length of the individual 'beef shins' meant that the thrifty consumers who frequented Bishops were actually eating virtually every antelope from the gazelle to the eland. Long before the EEC became the EU, of course, but an indication of what our pre-EU Food Standards were.