blake murphy wrote:
>
>
> >"The closest "dedicated butcher" is probably 300 miles from where I
> >live. Most people also are in that predicament.
> >
> >It probably would be easier to find a millinery shop."
> >
> well, o.k. then.
>
> but that has nothing to do with both parties saying, essentially, 'but
> these are the conditions where i live. therefore you must be wrong.'
> this is not the only thread in which this has occurred, and dave is
> not the only poster that does this. it's silly.


That is not the case at all. Neither he or I claimed that because we have
numerous butcher shops near our homes that everyone must have them nearby
too. Ward's suggestion that *most people* have to drive more than 300 miles
is just so far removed from our reality that can't possibly be true.