The Off Topic Topic

[Barrister]

There is some kind of rule in the US that, seafood aside, you are only to eat cows, pigs, and chickens. Any other choices are highly suspect and likely to get you picked up by the CIA as a potential foreign spy.

Mutton has a strong taste, what most would consider gamey. Lamb is better. If you want to go with another bovidae besides cow go for with goat. Lean meat, not as gamey as sheep

What you want to eat is bison.

[The Brain]

Don't you eat horse in the US? Weirdos.

[Sheilbh]

There is some kind of rule in the US that, seafood aside, you are only to eat cows, pigs, and chickens. Any other choices are highly suspect and likely to get you picked up by the CIA as a potential foreign spy.

Yes. The American fondness for coward meats only is well known

Coward meats?

Generally avoiding the more robustly flavoured or difficult to prepare meats or cuts

I wonder if part of it, if it's late 19th century, was that beef and pork could be processed and tinned?

[HVC]

We have big open fields that were great for Cattle. Then we moved to feed lot systems which don't work well for Sheep and Goats (very prone to parasites), but are great for cattle and pigs. So the prices for those dropped and sheep and goats became less popular.

[grumbler]

Generally avoiding the more robustly flavoured or difficult to prepare meats or cuts

Yes, it's called "throwing it out when it goes bad" as opposed to the European  "change the recipe when it goes bad" 

[Maximus]

My brother and nephew raise sheep in northern Saskatchewan. From what I recall, most of their lambs are shipped overseas. There's just not much of a market for it in North America.

And yes, the wool is mostly a throwaway byproduct.

[crazy canuck]

It is a lucrative industry here - supplying local lamb to Vancouver restaurants that is.

[Josquius]

My brother and nephew raise sheep in northern Saskatchewan. From what I recall, most of their lambs are shipped overseas. There's just not much of a market for it in North America.

And yes, the wool is mostly a throwaway byproduct.

Doesn't Canada have hipsters?

[Razgovory]

I was driving home from the Popeye's and thinking about Homeric Hymns when it occurred to me why God has people sing at him in church.  He's auditioning people to be angels.


"Oh, that guy in the third row has a wonderful baritone!  I must have him for the Choir.  I think I'll arrange an accident in the parting lot."

[Valmy]

I was driving home from the Popeye's and thinking about Homeric Hymns when it occurred to me why God has people sing at him in church.  He's auditioning people to be angels.


"Oh, that guy in the third row has a wonderful baritone!  I must have him for the Choir.  I think I'll arrange an accident in the parting lot."

It is this kind of insightful theological commentary that keeps me coming back to Languish.

[Sheilbh]

Generally avoiding the more robustly flavoured or difficult to prepare meats or cuts

Yes, it's called "throwing it out when it goes bad" as opposed to the European  "change the recipe when it goes bad" 

The world's best food is peasant food, whatever the cuisine - forced creativity with shit cuts

[Grey Fox]

My brother and nephew raise sheep in northern Saskatchewan. From what I recall, most of their lambs are shipped overseas. There's just not much of a market for it in North America.

And yes, the wool is mostly a throwaway byproduct.

Doesn't Canada have hipsters?

Yes. They buy wool clothes from imported sources. There is no affordable Canadian garment industry.

[The Larch]

For small farms in NA wool is an expense rather then a profit maker. Costs more to shear it then you can sell it for

Same in Europe, for sheep farms more focused in milk than wool, shearing is a cost, not a boon.

[The Larch]

Generally avoiding the more robustly flavoured or difficult to prepare meats or cuts

Yes, it's called "throwing it out when it goes bad" as opposed to the European  "change the recipe when it goes bad" 

The world's best food is peasant food, whatever the cuisine - forced creativity with shit cuts

True genious is creativity with innards.  Traditional Roman cuisine, for instance, has a heavy focus in them.

[Admiral Yi]

Apparently the Boy Scouts have declared bankruptcy because of sexual abuse cases.  From NPR.