Copey’s Butcher Shop

Copey’s is a small family run shop that kind of takes me back to the old butcher shops of my youth. I usually buy boneless pork chops and cubed steak here; both are wonderful. The seasoned chicken breast is good as well. This week, the pie case was full. A coconut cream (my fave) was right in front, begging me to take it home, but as I am the only fan in my house, I declined. I did purchase a small peanut butter pie, which is a steal at $ 2.75. It feeds 4 people easily. They also do deer processing here and so are super busy during hunting season. Not sure why Unilocal filtered 8 reviews for Copey’s and let a super negative review from 4 years ago stand alone here… but here’s another newer review for anyone interested!

I love copeys. We go every saturday and get filets. They are very nice and the meat is WONDERFUL. I feel that they also use local beef and their meet is less loaded up with sterioids, antibiotics, etc — but that’s just my opinion from speaking with the locals. One note — we don’t even use steak knives on the meat — it’s so tender we can cut it with our forks.

Sadly, I have to give this butcher shop only 1 star. Maybe it’s because I am a snob, and I have higher expectations from living in the city, but I am using my taste buds to judge this butcher shop, as well as expectations in quality for fresh meats.
Copey’s is located in Medway, about 8 miles off of Yellow Springs. Supposedly, I was told that people flock here from miles around to buy their meats. It has it’s own private lot, and during the summer, they have an open grill outside where you can buy their fresh grilled sausages to munch on while you wait. Once inside, you feel like you are in a weird meat-​ateria. The place is small, and the line goes around an aisle of chips, and condiments. On the left of you are floor to ceilings freezers stocked full of frozen appetizers like onion rings, french fries, calamari, etc. They don’t offer you baskets or carts to carry your food, instead you just get big gray dishwashing tubs to haul your meat in. Kinda nasty I thought, and very heavy. We purchased their porkchops, and several kinds of handmade sausages. They call all of their assorted sausages” brats”, not sure why. My mother in law bragged about how good their sausages were so we had bought several packages to take home with us, and also to dine on while we were visiting. We bought their salt and pepper brats, their jalepeno brats, and their italian brats. We also bought some of their pork chops for the grill. My husband went through his usual routine of boiling the brats in beer with onions and cinnamon, and all of us were anticipating the best sausages ever. We were really totally disappointed with their sausages. Definitely not grill friendly at all. It was devoid of any fat… so the meat tasted dry and flavorless. The pork chops had been completely trimmed of any fat, so they too were a bit flavorless. We were stuck with 6 packages of meat to take home. The other day, my husband decided to use the meat for a fritata. He noticed the ingredient package states that the sausage is made out of pork, water and 35% corn syrup solids, and 6% MSG!!! We were both totally floored and disgusted as this was supposed to be home made sausage. We didn’t anticipate that it was made up of fillers or that it was so unhealthy! Grrr! You live and you learn… from now on, we’ll taste before we buy alot, and we’ll pay attention to the packaging!