Meetz Meats

> "*Meaty Meats! Serving you for over 25 years!*"
> ― Slogan from Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped from the Silver Screen website
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**Meetz Meats‏‎** is a recurring evil fictional business from *Halloween Horror Nights*.

## Description

Run by the Meetz family, *Meetz Meats* is a popular butcher-shop and meat-factory based out of the town Carey, Ohio. While based out of Carey, the butcher-shop is also known to distribute their meats to organizations and locations elsewhere such as Los Angeles, and possibly New York. The mascot of the butcher-shop is a smiling character Meaty Meetz.

In secret, the butcher-shop processes and sells human flesh. The butchers abduct criminals and homeless-people, often locked in cages within their butcher-shop before being turned to meat, as the owners of the butcher-shop considered it to clean up the streets of Carey.

### Known members

* **Founder**: This Romanian member of the Meetz family immigrated to Carey during WWI and founded the business.
* **"Meaty Meetz"**: "Meaty Meetz" was mascot of the Meetz Meats company who some employees would dress up as and use a chainsaw to commit murders. One notable employee to play the role was the overweight cousin of Sam Meetz.
* **Sam Meetz**: Sam Meetz was the most notable owner of the Meetz Meats business, who was grandson of the original founder. He had a cheery public-facade while secretly running the family's human harvesting.
* **Sam's father**: The second known owner of the business who ran the company in the Great Depression. He was son of the founder, and father to Sam Meetz.

## History

### Background

#### Origins

Meetz Meats was started in the year 1904. During World War I, a member of the Meetz family emigrated to Carey, Ohio from Romania. Here, the man started the butcher-shop Meetz Meats.

During the Great Depression (1929-1939), the founder's son ran Meetz Meats and struggled to afford meats. Because of this he began murdering criminals and homeless people to sell as meat, which he also believed it kept the town "clean of vagrants, riffraff, and ner-do-els" . After the first murders, the meats became very popular in the town and became a family tradition for the Meetz family, carried on by this owner's son Samuel "Sam" Meetz over 25 years later.

#### Bad Following Good

By 1934, Meetz Meats was being run by a cheery moustachioed man named Samuel Meetz who was seen as a local hero (it is unclear if this was the son of the original founder, or said son's son Sam Meetz). Sam Meetz started a corrupt deal with Carey's then sheriff Dewayne Davis and a rail-yard worker named Norton where Norton would spot hobos on the train who the sheriff would then arrest, drug, and get overweight on his wife Maggie's cooking before selling to Sam Meetz with a price of five dollars for the sheriff, five dollars for his wife, and two dollars for Norton.

In 1934, Dewayne arrested a homeless-man from out of town named Delmar Reeves along with three others kept in the back of his station. Sheriff Davis plumped Reeves up to 202 pounds before offering him the opportunity to work for Sam Meetz, who presumably killed him for meat. On this occasion, the sheriff asked to forego his and Maggie's payment in-return for a pair of ribs from Meetz Meats to test out their new smoker.

#### Moonlight Drive In Movie Meal Combo

Around the 1950s, Meetz Meats began the "Moonlight Drive In Movie Meal Combo" in which they sold their (secretly human) meat products to the haunted *Universal Palace Theater* and the *Moonlight Drive-In/Hollywood Drive-In* of Hollywood, Los Angeles. It is unknown if either theaters were aware of the criminal ongoings of Meetz Meats and its owners the Meetz family. Around the premiere of an independent horror film in the Palace Theater, a young girl whose older brother and parents had finished eating their food screamed when she found a severed finger inside of her hot-dog.

After this, the Universal Palace stopped serving Meetz Meats while investigators were unable to identify the human remains within while Meetz Meats made the statement " Our secret recipe is the secret of our success". The family who found the finger could later no longer stomach any non-meat foods. Due to popular demand, the theater brought the meal combos back with radio advertisements.

#### Leave it to Cleaver

In 1951, a photograph of Samuel Meetz was taken which was then hung up in his butcher-shop. This photograph was may have also been hung up in *Tony's Pizza*, a pizzeria in Raccoon City which Sam Meetz might have visited or been connected to.

Sam Meetz appeared to be the head of Meetz Meats during the 1950s. Sam Meetz ran the company at a point of high commercialization, even appearing to sell Meaty Meetz masks as merchandise. At some point, he hosted a tour of his meat-factory where he tried to have the guests murdered for meat. The outcome of this incident is unknown.

#### Later history

It is possible that by the 1970s, Universal Pictures made a technicolor film based on Meetz Meats which was shown on Carey's WKNB station by H.R. Bloodengutz. Meetz Meats was scheduled to make a meat delivery to the Carver pumpkin farm for September 6, 1987.

Meetz Meats may have continued its operations into the 21st century under unknown leadership.

In 2008, Universal Studios made a recreation of the *Universal Palace Theater* and found archived documents related to the *Moonlight Drive In Movie Meal Combo* incident. The theater's phantom, the Usher, seemed to present the actions of Sam Meetz as a technicolor Universal film titled "Leave it to Cleaver".

In 2023, Meetz Meats may have worked with the "Travelling Oddities" show of evil occultist Dr. Rich Oddfellow, providing burgers for his show.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped from the Silver Screen (HHN 19)

Meetz Meats was tied into the backstory of the *Universal Palace Theater*.

##### Horrorwood Die-In

Flyers for the *Moonlight Drive In Movie Meal Combo* appeared.

##### Leave it to Cleaver

Meetz Meats originates from this haunted house.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 23

##### Resident Evil: Escape from Raccoon City

Sam Meetz made a cameo in a black-and-white photograph hung on the wall of *Tony's Pizza* in Racoon City labelled "Samuel Meetz 1951". Also present within the haunted house was a flyer for the *Moonlight Drive In Movie Meal Combo*. The canonicity of these easter-eggs are unclear.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 30

##### Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland

Recreations of the Leave it to Cleaver house appeared in this haunted house. Before entering the Leave it to Cleaver section, various promotional materials for Meetz Meats could be seen on the wall of Carey's WKNB Station along with a "Meats Meetz" movie poster, framed as a Universal film shown on "H.R. Bloodengutz presents".

##### The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin

A chalkboard in the Carver farm said "**Meetz meets** Pick up on 9/6/87". Like Leave it to Cleaver, this house took place in Carey, Ohio.

#### Universal Studios Orlando Fall & Halloween Experience

In 2020, the Leave it to Cleaver themed story "Bad Following Good" was released.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 31

##### The Meetz Locker

Located in Sting Alley, this food-stand was themed around being a cannibalism based shop run by Meetz Meats.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 32

Posters for Oddfellow's Circus mentioned Meetz Meats burgers being for sale.

## Trivia

* Meetz Meats was one of many serial-killers of HHN continuity active in the town of Carey (with some presumably being active around the same time). Another notable one was the family of Dr. Albert Caine, which also targeted the homeless and cannibalized some of their victims.
* In the HHN 28 haunted house "Slaughter Sinema", a film within HHN continuity called *Barber Chop* featured a murderous barber named Morton Meetz. It is unknown if this film is of any relation to Carey's Meetz family.
* The connection between Meats Meetz and Barber Chop may be a reference to the character of Sweeney Todd in *The String of Pearls* (1846–47). In said story, a barber named Sweeney Todd murdered his clients so that his downstairs neighbour, Mrs. Lovett, could turn their carcasses into meat-pies which would be sold to a public not knowing of the cannibalized flesh.
* The "Spoiled Angry Bear Meat" and "Fresh Ground Princesss" sold at the Meetz Locker may be references to Halloween Horror Nights' "Scary Tales" series.
* The packages of Meetz Meats from HHN 31 mentioned burning meat at a certain temperature to destroy the spirits inside.
* The "Serving You for Over 30 Years" message in *Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland* referenced it being HHN 30. For the first week there was also a "Now Serving 69" message alluding to the humour of the defunct *Bill & Ted* HHN shows.

## External links

* *Meetz Meats on the Halloween Horror Nights wiki.*

## References

1. ↑ "Est. 1904" printed on door to butcher-shop in Welcome to SCarey