look I understand an aversion to things like dog and cat and stuff, but if youre gonna try and make eating goat a taboo, you will simply be laughed out of the entire rest of the world. YOU EAT SHEEP
There is, although I will note that the taboo against eating goats is a peculiarly white American thing, not shared with Europeans, Black Americans or, as far as I know, anyone else. (Canadians?)
It's a very strange one.
Most Americans don't eat sheep either. Lamb is a rare luxury here unless you know a sheep farmer.
But it IS about race/class and about it being something brown people eat, unfortunately.
They're missing out!
For $20 plus a pound if they have it. It might be different in sheep producing regions. It used to be more reasonable before the pandemic, but it's been price gouged into "special occasion" range here.
So, I looked a couple of things up and found out why.
The five leading sheep producing states in the U.S. are Texas, Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota and, drumroll...
California.
You're much closer to a sheep producing area than we are.
Yeah, it's like, a Special Occasion Meat, if you eat it at all. A lot of people don't know how to cook it and thus, never get it.
(My white american ass would eat goat if I could find it, but my child might protest--out of love for the animal.)
much in the way you can "get" caviar in most of those same stores, as in most americans have never tried it, never met anyone who's tried it, never met anyone who's met anyone who's tried it. this country's huge dude, lots of things here are both "common" yet still exceedingly rare
thought to be more tender or something. I don't know, I haven't really done any comparisons side by side between lamb and mutton.
I think the main thing is that it's relatively uncommon to serve at home so people aren't used to cooking it.
Oddly, when I was a kid growing up in NE Ohio in the 70s, lamb was fairly common in the supermarket. We ate lamb chops or roast periodically. Then again, where I grew up there were a fair number of Greek and south-European immigrants, which may have influenced the availability
Gyros in America are usually lamb or a beef/lamb mix, right? But then again they're Ethnic, hardly a stone's throw from doner kebab and (gasp) shawarma.
I realize I'm only saying my family history but we've eaten lamb and goat. Goat has been much rarer but lamb has always been in rotation, especially for holidays/something fancy.
