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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 212515, member: 25&quot;]Having seen similar in use in grocer&#039;s shops n my youth, when there still were grocer&#039;s shops, I seem to recall the meat was held and fed into the machine automatically, to avoid just such accidents. The operator would turn the handle and use the other hand to catch the slices on a piece of grease-proof paper on the other side of the machine as they came out, then the paper with the meat would be placed on the scale by the machine to get a price.</p><p><br /></p><p>The scale was usually fitted with a large V shaped top with rows of figures with the per pound price on the left so the operator could read off the price from the appropriate row of figures and the scale indicator. </p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone else find that they&nbsp; often have to explain bygone everyday stuff and practices to people who really have no idea of how things used to be done?</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes I feel I have fallen into a very slow time machine and fetched up 60 years in the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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