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Thread #134034 Message #3049168
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
08-Dec-10 - 06:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Fun with music theory
Subject: RE: BS: Fun with music theory
I'll be nice and just pick one of your delusions out of your massive cut and paste of your reposted previous writings, there are just so many...
"No one thought it odd, for example, that the butcher's shop in the story was open on Christmas Day if Christmas was so celebrated in England."
This reveals your own lack of education. There was no widespread refrigeration at the time of Dickens. Fresh Meat rotted quickly, and had to be consumed rapidly (within hours) after slaughter, it could not be stored unless treated by a preservation process.
I have a geologist friend who traveled around Africa recently. He was desperate for some fresh meat, so he went to a local 'cook shop'. There was a live goat. They killed it on the spot and cooked it for him.
It was not till recently that ideas of shutting shops for days other than Xmas Day itself or Good Friday started. In the 1950's the local butcher shop (before the arrival of supermarkets in Australia country towns) was open 6 days a week - the then modern ice box was sufficient to hold supplies over the week end.