Eduard Eschenbach (Ede to friends) might not be the most honest butcher In all of Stepney. He might let people assume that he’s a formally trained butcher when really, like with many of his apprenticeships in his younger years, he really only stuck with it for a month or so before being kicked out for stretching the rules, he may be capable of speaking somewhat better English than he pretends to in order to cover up the fact that it may, on some days, be possible that most of the meat at Gustl’s Fine Bavarian Meats and Sausages  might lean a bit more toward horse, pigeon, dog and cat than your standard pork and mutton. Even calling his shop Bavarian when he and all thirteen of his brothers, including, Gustav, the shop’s namesake and co-owner, were, indeed, born and raised in Berlin might be a bit misleading, but when it comes to cheerful and friendly service, you couldn’t hope for anyone better! He meets (nearly) every customer with a smile (even quite unpleasant ones), is willing to slide an extra bit or bob here and there to more pleasant customers when he has it to spare and knows they could use it, and even keeps things sporting with would be thieves, having been a rather rampant pickpocket too in his childhood.

Like many, he spends most of his time working (either in the shop or procuring meat one way or another before or after hours), but you can also find him down the pub with or without one of his brothers at Mass on a Sunday, playing the faithful Bavarian Catholic (despite being raised protestant and not always being on the right side of a few of the commandments), or, every once in awhile, putting some of what he’s managed to set aside from the month’s profits to good use at a half-decent brothel.