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Whatever happened to mutton?
Have you ever seen mutton for sale at a butcher shop or supermarket meat section? Have you ever seen roast mutton on a restaurant menu? I never have. Lamb yes, but not mutton. Is it just that all meat from sheep is called lamb these days, or what? I suspect that you can still buy mutton at ethnic shops that also sell goat's meat and suchlike, but the word mutton seems to have disappeared from the vocabulary of the western cook.
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[nq:1]Have you ever seen mutton for sale at a butcher shop or supermarket meat section? Have you ever seen roast ... [/nq] Was reading about this in one of the cookery pages the other week.
- [nq:1]Have you ever seen mutton for sale at a butcher shop or supermarket meat section?
- Have you ever seen roast ...
- [/nq] Was reading about this in one of the cookery pages the other week.
- A shame, as it's good stuff, properly cooked.
- You probably have to get it direct from one of a few farms; but I don't know where.
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[nq:1]Have you ever seen mutton for sale at a butcher shop or supermarket meat section? Have you ever seen roast ... also sell goat's meat and suchlike, but the word mutton seems to have disappeared from the vocabularyof the western cook.[/nq]
Was reading about this in one of the cookery pages the other week. A shame, as it's good stuff, properly cooked. You probably have to get it direct from
Was reading about this in one of the cookery pages the other week. A shame, as it's good stuff, properly cooked. You probably have to get it direct from
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[nq:1]Have you ever seen mutton for sale at a butcher shop or supermarket meat section? Have you ever seen roast ... sell goat's meat and suchlike, but the word mutton seems to have disappeared from the vocabulary of the western cook.[/nq]
Nope. Still around in restaurants and butchers' shops, though sometimes elusive. Saddle of mutton and all that.
Nope. Still around in restaurants and butchers' shops, though sometimes elusive. Saddle of mutton and all that.
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[nq:1]Of course, it may be dressed as lamb ...[/nq]
I have, with equal aptness and cruelty, privately described one of my neighbours as "Mutton dressed as crumpet".
Mike.
I have, with equal aptness and cruelty, privately described one of my neighbours as "Mutton dressed as crumpet".
Mike.
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re: Mutton
[nq:1]Still around in restaurants and butchers' shops, though sometimes elusive. Saddle of mutton and all that. http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/food/s/136/136538 prince backs mu ... in Britain for hundreds of years before the Second World War." Of course, it may be
[nq:1]Still around in restaurants and butchers' shops, though sometimes elusive. Saddle of mutton and all that. http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/food/s/136/136538 prince backs mu ... in Britain for hundreds of years before the Second World War." Of course, it may be
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[nq:1]Have you ever seen mutton for sale at a butcher shop or supermarket meat section? Have you ever seen roast mutton on a restaurant menu? I never have. Lamb yes, but not mutton. Is it just that all meat from[/nq]
It may make a difference where you live. In Britain either governmental controls or butchers' professionalism (Coronation Street suggests) may specify the difference between mutto
It may make a difference where you live. In Britain either governmental controls or butchers' professionalism (Coronation Street suggests) may specify the difference between mutto
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What do they do with the old sheep what's just got their last shave? A bit like them old layer hens you can buy hacked chunks of frozen into a disgusting mass of yuk for the cheap. Good deal? You decide.
School Time
Husk of your mind bedecked with planks
Hand hewn by the well schooled shanks
To hold tight the juices from your soul
Before they're sucked clean out a hole
School Time
Husk of your mind bedecked with planks
Hand hewn by the well schooled shanks
To hold tight the juices from your soul
Before they're sucked clean out a hole
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[nq:2]Was reading about this in one of the cookery pages the other week.A shame, as it's good stuff, properly cooked. [/nq]
[nq:1]What do they do with the old sheep what's just got their lastshave? A bit like them old layer hens you can buy hacked chunks of frozeninto a disgusting mass of yuk for the cheap. Good deal? You decide.[/nq]
I think you are alluding to, er, "meat products". Dog-f
[nq:1]What do they do with the old sheep what's just got their lastshave? A bit like them old layer hens you can buy hacked chunks of frozeninto a disgusting mass of yuk for the cheap. Good deal? You decide.[/nq]
I think you are alluding to, er, "meat products". Dog-f
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[nq:1]supermarket A[/nq]
You haven't seen those frozen masses of chicken parts, usually connected leg and thighs, in the ten pound plastic bags? It doesn't say "old layer hens" on the box but that's what I'm assuming they are. Lots of fat on them too. A real health food.
School Time
Husk of your mind bedecked with planks
Hand hewn by the well schooled shanks
To hold tight
You haven't seen those frozen masses of chicken parts, usually connected leg and thighs, in the ten pound plastic bags? It doesn't say "old layer hens" on the box but that's what I'm assuming they are. Lots of fat on them too. A real health food.
School Time
Husk of your mind bedecked with planks
Hand hewn by the well schooled shanks
To hold tight
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[nq:2]I think you are alluding to, er, "meat products". Dog-food, I imagine.[/nq]
[nq:1]You haven't seen those frozen masses of chicken parts, usually connected leg and thighs, in the ten pound plastic bags? ... on the box but that's what I'm assuming they are. Lots of fat on them too. A real health food.[/nq]
I don't doubt their existence (though I was only thinking of time-expired sheep)
[nq:1]You haven't seen those frozen masses of chicken parts, usually connected leg and thighs, in the ten pound plastic bags? ... on the box but that's what I'm assuming they are. Lots of fat on them too. A real health food.[/nq]
I don't doubt their existence (though I was only thinking of time-expired sheep)
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[nq:1]It may make a difference where you live. In Britain either governmental controls or butchers' professionalism (Coronation Street suggests) ... younger than Y months.) In N.America there are no such rules or traditions, so all sheep meat appears as "lamb."[/nq]
And Loblaw's always has "Fresh Spring Lamb" from New Zealand available the year round. I always wondered how they did that...
And Loblaw's always has "Fresh Spring Lamb" from New Zealand available the year round. I always wondered how they did that...
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