Perhaps the biggest beneficiary of The League of Gentlemen tourism boom was Mettrick's, a butcher shop with branches in Hadfield and Glossop. In the programme, butcher Briss sells "special stuff" —meat that is not only highly addictive but produced immorally and illegally.
At the height of The League of Gentlemen 's popularity, Mettrick's began selling its own "special stuff" sausages to tourists. But in a strange case of fiction-reflecting-reality, the butchers did not reveal the ingredient that gave these novelty sausages their "special" edge. Keen to get to the bottom of the Mettrick's mystery sausage, as well as the show's enduring impact on the two towns, I set off for what was once Royston Vasey.
We have our own abattoir and we source all our meat from the local farms," says John Mettrick with just a hint of irony, when I arrive at his Glossop butcher shop. When I ask Mettrick about the special sausages, he tells me: "We don't market them as such anymore, because the demand has dwindled. But we did make them with a very special secret ingredient.
It has been a local shop for generations of local people, but a butchers based in the town used by a legendary TV comedy is closing. It has won many awards for its pies, sausages and other "special stuff".
Owner John Mettrick said customers struggling to access the shop was one of the reasons for closing. Five generations of Mettricks have worked at the butchers, which is still situated on its original site. If it's indeed been rolled into his sausages then some sort of refrigeration would be necessary Fish mentions Midnight Express which does not contain a terminal illness, within a list of films that do.
He does this to explain to a patient that he will die. Why Midnight Express? Because it's a film about cocaine-smuggling, and cocaine is what's killing the patient.
That night Maurice was banging the Butcher Shop door waking Hilary, he tells him to stop he'll wake Mrs Briss, Maurice wants more of the stuff now addicted, sensing the pleads Hilary gives in. When Maurice gets his from the Freezer, he sees that Sam is there half-naked and stoned wanting more as well. While chatting to Sam, a young man called Collier comes in after doing his normal order asks for the Stuff, but they try to put him off and when he threatens Hilary with Police, Inspector Cox comes out the back meaning Collier's threat was useless, the kid runs off.
While at a urinal, Maurice comes to Hilary to making sure that that night's meeting is still going ahead which it is. That night Maurice comes late and has also brought his wife Eunice, Hilary discovers that she knows and Maurice has told non-members which has Hilary forcing him to leave and the ranks are closed tighter. The next day with the Nosebleeds Plague growing Sam states his fears or that Maurice would turn them in but Hilary is more than confident about him not telling due his dealings.
However, it reaches a point that he is forced to not sell anything, Maurice comes in scared that the Special Stuff has caused it, but Hilary reminds him all the victims are not his select customers, just then Sam comes in with a piece of meat from Eunice's nibble box it's the Special Stuff. In anger, they confront Maurice he admits he only just found out she used the stuff and has cut it with her own paste making it cause the nosebleeds. When Sam remarks they all ate it as well, Hilary admits he never touches the stuff, as he leaves them to begin bleeding.
Afterwards, Hilary admits to his wife he has to leave knowing she is fine, however after the arrests begin Briss has disappeared and they discover his wife is a cow.
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