Episode 23: Almost a ton of meat

We got back to base at exactly 8 am. When we arrived, Natasha was visibly bewildered that we got back so fact, she thought that there is some problem with our hunt, but as soon as she looked at the back, and saw the 2 massive mutant deer, she was even more surprised. I've already drained the mutant deer out of their blood, so when we parked the car and Alfred take them off the truck. Immediately I went to work, Natasha also helped, she said that she knew how to butcher, but when she showed me how she does with, saying that it was the way everyone does it in this world, I stopped her.

Her handiwork was sloppy and wasteful, I can't blame her, after all, she does it according to what this world considered a fine job. So instead, I took more time to teach her the correct way to butchered the meat efficiently. It took us roughly an hour to butcher the 2 mutant deer, and from we gain, 800kg of raw meat, this includes the heart and liver, the rest of the organs has been thrown away, 2 perfectly good hides and the antlers. Natasha said, the antlers would sell, as people used them as a weapon material and also medicine. As we done with the work, I have Natasha cooked the meat first, I wanted to taste them, I already performed a Deep Analysis on them, and my skill said that it was safe to consume, but we never know how it would taste until we tried it.

"Hmm…this…actually tasted great…wow…".

"This is so delicious, Honey…. Mutant Deer meat never tasted this good…I have eaten on before…and it tasted gamey…this…. this taste so delicious…there is no gamey taste at all...". (Natasha)

Natasha with guidance from Alfred just simple cooked the steak with just salt and pepper, in an iron pan with butter and thyme, that was it and the result comes out perfectly, it tasted like a 5-star restaurant quality meal.

"[Perhaps…the inhabitants of this world, did not bleed the butchered animal first…that is why the off taste were so apparent…]". (Alfred)

"Probably…perhaps that's why those air-dried jerky, tasted so bad…".

"Oh…the key to making this sort of tasty meat…is to bleed the meat first...make sense…as far as I can remember, no one ever do that…they just kill the animal and just start butchering on the spot…that is how things were always been done since forever...". (Natasha)

Since they didn't butcher the meat properly, I guess they even might do everything sloppily, like cutting open the stomach whilst it was still inside or stuff like that.

"By the way, Nat…".

"Yes?". (Natasha)

"About what I just thought you…don't tell anyone one about it, okay…".

She looked at me and smiled.

"I know…your butchering skills and knowledge are safe with me…no one ever made this sort of high-quality meat…and it should be one of our family close guarded secrets as well…if we were to sell meat…this probably can change the entire world perception of what a good meat are and should be…". (Natasha)

"As always…you understand me so well, Nat..".

"Of Course, I am your wife after all….". (Natasha)

After we done with taste tasting the venison, all of them were stored inside our freezers and fridge. I took 10kg out to mince them and turned them into burgers patties, I minced them with the organs in 50:50 ration of meat and organs, this will be the burger patties that will surely make us famous. With the sauce, mayo and mustards, then lettuce and buns, these burgers will be an instant hit. Natasha devoured 3 of them when I made a trial of it. And she said that in all her life history, she never seen a burger nor even tasted one, and according to her it was a taste to die for.

So, as we were busy preparing the meat patties together, we also discussed our preparation as well. Natasha suggested that we sell our produce to a town that were at the south of Rat Town, a town called Station Ail and Wail, it was a town that are known on this part of Jouston city as one of the hubs of Scavenging activities, many scavenger's and scavenger groups made this place their homes. Station Ail and Wail, were known to welcome all sort of traders, to come and open their stall outside and inside their town, as this town do not have their own farm or ranch, their main productions in alcohol and scavenged items.

"At Station Ail and Wail…they didn't care about a merchant's identity….as long as we paid 5 coins of tax per day…don't make any problems…we can sell pretty much everything…also…the people of that town, most of them got coins that they can spend…they also got a lot of scavenged items as well…". (Natasha)

"Wow, Nat…you really thought about this a lot, Huh…".

"When it comes to our family…I always give it my all, Honey…. also, I know a few Scavengers friends there…if there's anything…we get help from them as well…". (Natasha)

"Alright, then…Station Ail and Wail it is….".

Right now, we have already decided on the product and the place to sell, it is now come for us to decide on the name that we would be known for from now on.

"We can keep it simple…. We can just call ourselves, Azra Family…simple and true…". (Natasha)

She just said it like it was nothing.

"Are we seriously naming our group and our stall…Azra Family?".

"Yes…". (Natasha)

"How about, Star Gas Station store…or something like that…".

"…Honey, you are bad at naming things….and also…Azra Family Store will be enough, it was simple it is true…Right Alfred?". (Natasha)

"[I agreed, with Madam, Sir…. the name is simple and true]". (Alfred)

Since it was 2 against 1, we decided that from now on, we as a group will be known as Azra Family, I'm thinking that the 2 of them would pick a cool name or something, instead they just went with my name. after we done making the meat patties, I went on shopping, buying a lot of empty clean 1 liter water bottles, a lot of sour dough bread and burger buns. Compared to this wasteland breads, the bread I bought online is 100 times better that what they have here.

Alfred suggested that we should buy everything in a bulk, that would make the price cheaper. We are placing the order online and on a single shopping platform, we just spread out our shopping's, we picked the cheapest one out of the many and just a lot of them at once and set the delivery as fast delivery. I am sure that vendors back on earth would be so happy that someone buy their stock in abundance all at once. We also didn't have to worry about storing space as my Inventory Skill solved that issue with no sweat at all. Naturally we too had to keep and appearance as well, so tomorrow when we were about to arrive at the town, my truck bed that were already fitted with a canvas softtopper, I will then fill the back with all of our product, and thus avoiding any suspicions.

It will be a simple pop-up store at the back of our truck, and it's turns out I am rather quite excited about all this. We are about to begin our entrepreneur life and building our reputations in this decimated world. I wondered just how popular my product will be, the people of this world had used to eat trash for all their lives, and now they were about to taste a real food, I wondered how they will react to this. Also, the fact that our chosen location also enables Natasha to reconnect with her old friend is a plus for me as well, I bet she has been eager to do it as well.