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In reply to the discussion: Why don't we, as Americans, eat lamb and goat? [View all]gvstn
(2,805 posts)34. Lamb just like beef
can have a gamey taste depending on the individual animal. Good lamb is delicious.
I've found the last 10 years that both steaks and lamb chops are both random chance whether you get one that tastes as it should or gamey flavored. Something has changed at least in the supermarkets around here. I don't go to the butcher shop much but when buying a steak, I make the effort and expense because I have been disappointed so many times at the supermarket
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Yup. I'd guess price as well. Beef and poultry are much cheaper in the US right now.
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#9
I don't think you need the bang for the buck factor with sheep and goats, though
Aerows
Aug 2012
#10
I'm not sure why, but Lamb tastes like dirty socks to me - I suppose it's a matter of taste buds.
smirkymonkey
Aug 2012
#195
I generally pay around $8/pound for ground lamb - I love it as an alternative
bullwinkle428
Aug 2012
#55
Sheep farms don't enjoy the massive subsidies that the beef industry does.
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#85
If that's the figures, it only makes vague statements about goats, on marginal land
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2012
#179
ITA. And since gators have made such a comeback, we should eat more gator as well. nt
raccoon
Aug 2012
#20
SC, but we also have gators. I've only tasted it once, but yes, it is delicious fried.
raccoon
Aug 2012
#54
Six foot gator and couldn't even get in the door to work, because the thing was sitting there
Aerows
Aug 2012
#97
Both Lamb and Goat can be gamey depending on the cut and the way it's prepared
Ganja Ninja
Aug 2012
#22
There's a restaurant by where I work that serves a lamb burger with feta cheese, tzatziki sauce, on pita bread.
Initech
Aug 2012
#37
Beef is cheaper to mass-produce using factory style farming. More meat yeild per animal. Goat/Lamb
Erose999
Aug 2012
#45
We have turkeys, geese, chickens, pigs, goats and wanted to raise lambs also but could not find
jwirr
Aug 2012
#65
Lamb was a staple in America until the American Beef Council started advertising and lobbying...
Tom Ripley
Aug 2012
#69
When I was a kid I used to have to drink Goats milk (allergic to cows milk)
AsahinaKimi
Aug 2012
#72
We do. Trader Joe's is one place I know that always has buffalo & beefalo.
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#87
Me either, for several reasons. but buffalo tastes much more like good beef properly
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#145
Americans don't eat lamb?? That's news to me. Every grocery I've ever been in carries it.
kestrel91316
Aug 2012
#74
I love veal cutles. Usually I order from Krogers Lamp for Easter. It's hard to find here in the
southernyankeebelle
Aug 2012
#77
I think it probably has a lot to do with the cute/fuzzy factor of lambs and goats
rox63
Aug 2012
#92
Thank you for the correction. Was thinking "sacrificial" did not sound right as the goat lives! n/t
ieoeja
Aug 2012
#212
There is much more history in that question than you might guess...Sheep Wars...really...
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2012
#138
I once had goat stew prepared by Jamaican farmworkers in North Yarmouth, Maine.
eShirl
Aug 2012
#148