# Butcher's Curtain (?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 8, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butchers-curtain/334656 "2005-12-08T12:22:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butchers-curtain/334656/1 "2005-12-08T12:22:08Z")
Hi All Although this a GQ, it’s so frivolous as to be pointless (Mods feel free to move me…). It’s also a question for my fellow UKers. Does anyone know where I can get one of those coloured plastic strip door curtains that used to be seen hanging in the doorway of every butcher’s shop in the UK? I’ve exhausted Google… OB ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butchers-curtain/334656/2 "2005-12-08T13:29:53Z")
Doesn’t your local pound shop sell them? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butchers-curtain/334656/3 "2005-12-08T13:43:57Z")
> [@Oswald Bastable](#): > > Hi All > > Although this a GQ, it’s so frivolous as to be pointless (Mods feel free to move me…). It’s also a question for my fellow UKers. > > Does anyone know where I can get one of those coloured plastic strip door curtains that used to be seen hanging in the doorway of every butcher’s shop in the UK? I’ve exhausted Google… > > OB My husband works in a warehouse and they have one in the doorway there. You might want to look under a warehousing supply site. ---
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butchers-curtain/334656/4 "2005-12-08T15:14:46Z")
> [@Dominic Mulligan](#): > > Doesn’t your local pound shop sell them? I haven’t got so far as actual physical shops yet - I’m so used to finding everything I need online ;). Luckily, there are a lot of pound shops around, so I’m hoping to find one before Christmas (it’s a pressie). OB ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butchers-curtain/334656/5 "2005-12-08T15:20:38Z")
Dear Og. Am I the only one who thought _Butcher’s Curtains_ was going to be a euphemism for _labia_ ---
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butchers-curtain/334656/6 "2005-12-08T15:22:36Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > My husband works in a warehouse and they have one in the doorway there. You might want to look under a warehousing supply site. The ones I’m after don’t seem to exist online :(. Lots of those heavy pvc industrial ones but none of the multicoloured lightweight thin stripped ones I’m after… Thanks anyway. OB ---
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butchers-curtain/334656/7 "2005-12-08T15:25:14Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Dear Og. Am I the only one who thought _Butcher’s Curtains_ was going to be a euphemism for _labia_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butchers-curtain/334656/8 "2005-12-08T15:27:05Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Dear Og. Am I the only one who thought _Butcher’s Curtains_ was going to be a euphemism for _labia_ That’s the first thing I thought, too. :smack: