Reminds me of a story from my days in the aerospace industry.
Many years ago I hosted some Egyptian Army officers who came here as students. They arrived just before the date of some big feast. It might have been the end of Ramadan, I don't remember. Anyway, one of their requests was for a live sheep to slaughter. Now this was in Los Angeles, and I had visions of them slaughtering their sheep down by the tennis courts of the apartment complex where they were staying. I got them in touch with a black muslim who worked for our company and whom I was told could fix them up. I watched with amusement as the local guy explained how he was going to take them to a halal butcher in the area. The Egyptians' frustration continued to grow until finally one of them burst out with "We need a LIVE sheep!". The black guy was speechless.
Anyway, the problem bounced around the office until it got our contracting officer. He tells me "What's the big deal? We already did it once before for the Jordanians!"
As it turned out, it WASN'T such a big deal. There was a farm out by Riverside where they could go to do the deed. In the end they backed out because they didn't want to make the drive to Riverside. They went to the halal butcher instead, and groused about the quality of his meat for weeks.
For many years, when the subject of the Egyptians came up, one of my co-workers would invariably dead-tone the words "we need a LIVE sheep!"
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