Do You Like Lamb?

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Lon

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I must be getting hungry since I keep thinking about food. I love lamb and New Zealand Lamb has to be the best lamb of all. Lamb Chops----Roast Lamb---with mint sauce and all the trimmings is hard to beat---Shish Kabob with Rice Pilaf. The New Zealand lamb that I buy here in the states is much more expensive than domestic lamb, but well worth the price difference.
 

We don't eat red meat. Stopped eating veal ages ago. Never liked lamb, but must admit that when I had a lamb roast in Australia, it was delicious.
 
I'm not a true vegan, obviously, and if someone has gone to the trouble of making a roast, be it beef or lamb, I will eat it .. as long as it's not rare.
 
I like lamb, we sometimes buy a boneless leg of lamb from Australia and slice it ourselves, or just buy some arm chops at the supermarket. Lamb is healthier to eat than beef, so we eat it more often than we did when we were young. As a kid my mother used to make us long boned shoulder lamb chops, she just fried them on the gas stove and they were so good.
 
I tried lamb/sheep years ago, and remember it tasted and smelled like wet wool to me. I don't eat meat of any kind now, and rarely even eat fish anymore, not just for health reasons, but for environmental reasons and love of animals. Still do partake in dairy though.
 
I enjoy lamb. I rarely get it, rarely see it at the store (and I have no idea where it comes from). A few weeks ago I had a gyro -- delicious, but I would just as soon have the plain meat without all the seasonings and other ingredients. Meat well cooked needs no seasonings IMO.

I would like to to try mutton sometime but I don't know if you can get it here in the US. The SE is not big sheep country.
 
I like lamb ,however some of the lamb being sold here is in supermarkets is more lamb than I'm ..:laugh::laugh:I lived on a large sheep farm from 1976-- 1986 so I know the difference in taste ,toughness
 
Lon said:
I must be getting hungry since I keep thinking about food. I love lamb and New Zealand Lamb has to be the best lamb of all. Lamb Chops----Roast Lamb---with mint sauce and all the trimmings is hard to beat---Shish Kabob with Rice Pilaf. The New Zealand lamb that I buy here in the states is much more expensive than domestic lamb, but well worth the price difference.
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Hey Lon!

I love lamb.come Easter,it would be on a spit over a charcoal,and its insides made into a great kokoretsi and skewered also :)

You have to know how to cook lamb for it not to smell and I don't find its like Veal.I find Veal is more tender and cooks more easier than lamb.

My grandparents and in laws survival and feeding their large families depended on raising animals and farming.

I was taught at a very young age to 'clean' the menudo and intestines etc.for soup.

And the skins,we hung them to dry....jk ,lol
 
I grew up on sheep meat but rarely lamb because it was too expensive. We often ate stewed mutton chops (see definitions) and had baked leg of hogget for Sunday dinner.

Commonwealth countries

  • Lamb — a young sheep under 12 months of age which does not have any permanent incisor teeth in wear. (Note that the Australian definition requires 0 permanent incisors, whereas the New Zealand definition allows 0 incisors 'in wear'.)
  • Hogget — A term for a sheep of either sex having no more than two permanent incisors in wear,[SUP][8][/SUP] or its meat. Still common in farming usage, it is now rare as a domestic or retail term for the meat. Much of the "lamb" sold in the UK is "hogget" to an Antipodean farmer.
  • Mutton — a female (ewe) or castrated male (wether) sheep having more than two permanent incisors in wear.
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I note that in US all sheep meat is now referred to as lamb but if it is strong smelling, tough or with tastes unpleasant it is probably mutton. Mutton is rarely sold in OZ these days - it must go into pet food - and what is sold as lamb in supermarkets is probably hogget too. Real lamb is usually labelled 'spring lamb'.

[h=3]United States[edit][/h]Under current federal regulations (2014 CFR §65.190),[SUP][9][/SUP] only the term 'lamb' is used:

  • Lamb — ovine animals of any age, including ewes and rams[SUP][10][/SUP]

The terms 'mutton' and 'hogget' are rare [SUP][11][/SUP] in the United States. Nevertheless, the exclusive use of 'lamb' in the United States may be confusing, particularly if it is assumed that only actual lambs are butchered for their meat. Under the previous definition (2010 CFR §65.190), 'lamb' meant 'meat, other than mutton (or yearling mutton), produced from sheep'.[SUP][12][/SUP]
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I had never heard of hogget before reading your post, Warrigal.

Now I wonder if that is where Farmer Hoggett got his name (in Babe).

Bonus for any music lovers reading this thread, because I love this:

 

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