I had mutton chops last night & they were far more flavoursome than lamb & at half the price. Why do you not see these in many butchers?
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I had mutton chops last night & they were far more flavoursome than lamb & at half the price. Why do you not see these in many butchers?
Because people mistakingly believe that lamb is more tender than mutton which, provided you cook it correctly, is patently untrue.
But chops aren't actually that good, are they? They're simple to cook but ultimately mostly disappointing. With the possible exception of these f*ck off huge veal chops I used to get in NY which when pan fried with mushrooms were quite divine.
How's things in Dorset? What's your weekly alcohol consumption like nowadays?
I think you're baldest, mate.
He is shouty and opinionated. He's always fulminating in a tiresome way (usually in the middle of the street) about how foreigners do things better and how we at home are all wrong. Meanwhile the foreigners gaze at him witheringly with a look that says 'Who is this bald, shouty cùnt and when will he fúck off?'
There is a pointless snobbery about lamb v mutton. At one point I tried to get hold of sheep which were being drowned on a yearly basis in the Falkland Islands in order to export it but they couldn't be a rsed.
In Iceland too they "only eat yearlings".
I have news for them and for you. Lamb isn't tastier than mutton (in the same way veal isn't tastier than beef) and if the sheep spends a couple more years eating grass and so on it is more than compensated by the extra amount of meat and wool you get from the older animals.
Period.
He's done loads of shows extolling the value of British produce/cooking and not just in the southwest, all over England. And it's rather hard to do the job he does without offering an opinion, it's what he's paid to do.
This is your misanthropic side showing through, Berni.
It was worth a try...
Not happening anymore but happened for years. They didn't have an abattoir acceptable to EU standards. I pointed out to them there was a big wide world out there beyond the EU which could buy the stuff and even arranged for an abattoir ship to go out there. They weren't interested. Too much money from fishing licences.
Many years back, my beloved and I went to a village in the mountains (Manikaran in the Parvati Valley in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas} to visit some old friends. This is really cut off - 2 hrs by bus to the main road where the valley joins the Delhi-Manali road.
Matey said he'd cook for us tonight. Asked my partner if she wanted chicken or mutton and she chose the later. The Butchers there don't have fridges cos of power cuts. You see flies buzzing around the slabs of meat all the time.
She got really ill with the ****s etc and was in bed on a saline drip for days and days.
It turns out that mutton for them is goat. So beware if you ever go up the mountains - or eat in a local dhaba (cheap food shack) if it serves meat {most are Veg or pure veg.} A mutton curry is made from goat and isn't that good for western guts.
I doubt it was the variety of meat that did it, more the lack of hygiene in India. Which is one reason that, unless forced by work, I will never visit the godforsaken place. I've lost count of the number of people I know who have come back from there seriously ill. In one case it probably cost him his life, in another case it has had an incredibly negative impact on his life.
Civilised people should visit only civilised countries, Ganpati.
Quite possibly.
Cities like KL, Bangkok and Hong Kong may appear first world from the outside, but scratch the surface and sniff the appalling truth at your peril. Cambodia, Laos and the 'Nam are definitely third world.
Singapore doesn't really count as being in Asia. It's like Switzerland if the Nazis were in power.
Chilli crab vs fondue and rosti. It would be an interesting 'comapre and score' dinner.
Of the transexuals I cannot speak, for I have tasted these, no doubt, divine fruits in neither country. Rather than quantity, might you advise which nation enjoys the better transexuals?