On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:58:51 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>Ward Abbott wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:27:40 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >I know of 2 of those in the area.
>>
>> Gee...aren't you the lucky one!
>
>Fercrissakes you whined that there isn't a butcher shop for 300 miles, or a
>millinery shop, and said that most people are in the same position. Based
>on what I have access to that is bullshit. If I have three local butcher
>shops within 3 miles of me, everyone else in town does too. If I have
>access to 2 millinery stores, everyone around here does too. I suppose
>there are a few people around her who don't bother with the real butcher
>shop and don't know about them and the millinery stores, and are too dumb
>to find them, they may sit around and broadcast their ignorance too.

maybe so, but most of the butcher shops i see around here (d.c. area)
are halal butchers. honest-to-god butchers that actually cut meat in
a stand-alone store are not as common as you might think.

your pal,
blake