SC - 'hardly anyone eats lamb'

[Maddie Teller-Kook]

I grew up in the northeast (new york city area) and my family ate lamb.
Mostly lamb chops. Didn't cook a leg of lamb until after I had gotten
into cooking.  But, I do love lamb and buy it whenever it goes on sale.
I live in Texas now and Lamb is not a very common meat here. Beef is the
big one and then pork. 

meadhbh


Karen Lyons-McGann wrote:
> 
> >>Somebody said 'hardly anyone eats lamb'
> >Really? Australia 'lives on the sheep's back', so the Australian Sunday
> roast is lamb.
> >How does this compare around the globe (or even around others in
> Australia?)
> >Charles Ragnar
> 
> Hello!  I'm the someone.  In the southeastern United States, eating lamb
> is just about unheard of.  Sheep haven't been raised here in the land of
> cotton in generations, at least not in such numbers that there are very
> many spare lambs for market.  Sunday is for fried chicken, or country ham
> or pork barbecue.  It's not so long ago that the only kind of lamb I
> could find was frozen and  imported all the way from New Zealand!  That's
> changing now with so many people moving into the the region from all over
> the US and around the world.  All the stores I usually shop at do sell
> fresh lamb now, but it's expensive.  Lamb is a meat reserved for those
> intending to show off their finances  or those immigrants to this region
> who have a real need to re-create foods traditional to their families.
> As for kid, I don't think I've ever seen it for sale, though our area has
> at least 2 goat dairies.  I can think of one market that might just
> possibly carry it or be willing to find out where they could special
> order it.
> 
> Anne
> 
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