"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
>
> Years ago I was able to get lamb only at one butcher shop in the city
> where we lived. I never saw shanks there. That place is gone now. My
> regular butcher does not carry lamb.Mt back-up butcher does not carry
> lamb. The only place I can get lamb is at the larger grocery stores, and
> they only carry shanks occasionally.

I find that just astonishing. Wasn't globablisation supposed to be all
about being able to get whatever we wanted, whereever we wanted? I think we
consumers have been sold yet another pup.