Pop Up Butcher Shop

I don't know if I've addressed, on this blog, the Armenian phenomenon that is the Pop Up Butcher Shop. 

In the US, as Pop Up Shop is a commercial endeavor which occupies a retail space for a short period of time. It's a business strategy that's commonly utilized by home crafters who want to make some extra money selling their finished objects, but for various reasons can't maintain a full time retail location. 

Similarly, the Armenian Pop Up Butcher Shop occurs when some one slaughters an animal and wants to make some extra money by selling the meat. The Pop Up Butcher Shop typically consists of a man, some cloths/blankets to cover the sidewalk, a large dead animal, a tree stump, and a hatchet. Sometimes, instead of having the large dead animal on the cloths/blankets on the sidewalk, it's on the cloths/blankets in the open trunk of the man's car. 

Orders are given not  for specific cuts of meat, but rather for rough approximate size. One the size of meat chunk desired is established, the man goes to town on the dead animal with the hatchet, and a monetary exchange takes place. For some reason, I always find these Pop Up Butcher Shops a little intimidating, so I've only taken this one picture from pretty far away.