The Off Topic Topic

[Richard Hakluyt]

I remember reading as a child about range wars back in the 1860s-80s. The cattlemen and the shepherds did not get on with shared land for obvious reasons. Not sure how important that actually was  though.

According to wiki USA sheep peaked in 1881 at 51m and have declined ever since to only 6m today. UK has about 23m for comparison.

[Valmy]

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.

[Eddie Teach]

You forgot 🦃

[Valmy]

You forgot 🦃

Oh right. But the point still stands.

[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

[Richard Hakluyt]

Let's hope the Johnson regime doesn't sign a trade deal with the USA that bans us from eating dead sheep 

[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.

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

Coward meats?

[grumbler]

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.

Huh.  Turkey dinners and lamb chops are against American rules?  CIA must be busy!

[grumbler]

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?

Sheilbh eats only toasted eagle livers.

[HVC]

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

[HVC]

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

[crazy canuck]

Roast lamb done to a perfect medium rare is amazing.  Problem is it is hard to get it done to perfection.  When you find a place that can do it, or even better if you have the skill to nail it at home, you have a little piece of heaven.  It is the thing I miss most since going vegan.

[HVC]

Are you vegan for dietary or ethical reasons?

[Valmy]

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.

Huh.  Turkey dinners and lamb chops are against American rules?  CIA must be busy!

Ok you got me

I had a point that I was making a joke about, am I wrong though? We have a pretty narrow band of types of animals we consume.

[Razgovory]

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.

I think that mutton, goat, and horse meat became associated with poverty in the US.