[DallasBiff]

Every Sunday growing up, it was leg of lamb, lamb chops, or lamb bbq at the picnic grounds, in an eastern european household

Can't find lamb anywhere now.

And please no pictures of a lamb saying, "bahhh".

[Magnum44]

[9YearLurker]

Mutton? I don’t think folks have admitted to eating mutton rather than lamb since the 1940s, when a common stretch apparently was to pass goat off as such as well despite the difference in taste.

[ConservativeInPA]

I have lamb once per year on Father’s Day. It’s too expensive and requires a special trip to buy it, so one a year it’s in the food budget. When I was a kid mutton was pretty regular in our household. I never see mutton in the store. The sheep must be slaughtered only for lamb and I assume ranchers are not interested in raising them for that long.

[posterchild]

I too grew up with Sunday lamb/mutton dinners. Whenever people ask me for my preferred proteins it is usually in the first or second slot.

[circlecity]

On the 8th day God created BBQ.

[blackdog]

I was a sheep farmer for 15 years. My clientelle for farm direct purchases were mostly Muslims from the Serbia, Croatia, areas that relocated to Wisconsin. My bulk lamb shipment was in November every year. The internet auction guy would come out and ultrasound the muscling on the lambs and average score the lot. Restaurant supply houses in Minneapolis and Chicago would bid on the lot. Tractor trailers would show up with a check in hand. The doggos would load them and repeat next year after very hard exhausting work after a two month break until the new lamb crop arrived.

The only lamb that makes it to retail grocery stores any more is New Zealand or Australian frozen legs and shanks. Only so-so.

[mylife]

quite popular at KY bbqs with mustard based sauce

[mylife]

make marinate, olive oil, dijon mustard, garlic, rosemary, salt, pepper. apply same to red potatoes...

roast :P

[Jolla]

When in Jerusalem I asked this guy how to eat goat, he said with a fork.

[blackdog]

And BTW the Muslims want ram lambs left intact with their pronouns still attached. I always left a dozen or so ram lambs for them. They DO NOT want wethers. The restaurant trade markets fine you heavily or won't bid at all on any lambs with their pronouns still intact.

Going rate for farm lamb was $250 for the whole lamb and they insist on killing and cutting it up. They waste nothing.

The best price I ever got on wholesale lots was $1.35 per hundred weight. Usually around 20,000 pound lots.

I never broke even. It was a good environment to raise a hard working family though. That's paid back a thousand times.

[Irenic]

No to lamb, sheep, goat.

I eat almost anything but not that.

It tastes like the the living critter smells.

[MomwithHope]

I grew up the same way. Costco has decent lamb and the prices are OK. Just had a boneless leg for New Years.

[Pigsley]

We got a bbq’d leg of lamb via amazon delivery for Christmas. Wow, it looked fancy....I looked the company up and the price was $140.00. You cooked it in an extremely low oven for a few hours, in it’s plastic bag. I don’t eat red meat, but I was excited for my husband. Don’t want to mention the name of the company because maybe we just did something wrong. The skin was sooooo tough, a lot of gristle and fat and it came with a bottle of BBQ sauce that was kind of good, but did not really work with the lamb. Very odd.... I ended up slicing about 2 lbs off the giant bone and freezing. $140!!!!! Dog and cat love it, but get tired of chewing the tough parts!

[sjmjax]

Never BBQ’d lamb. But, frequently make a roasted rack of lamb. Has become a favorite Sunday evening dinner.

[IndispensableDestiny]

I was once eating BBQ in Little Rock at what was supposed to be Bill Clinton’s favorite restaurant. They had an old menu on the wall that included BBQ goat. An older waitress told me it was very good goat.

[ptsal]

Bkmk lamb