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Lamb is the most expensive of the three types, and in recent decades, sheep meat has increasingly only been retailed as "lamb", sometimes stretching the accepted distinctions given above. The stronger-tasting mutton is now hard to find in many areas, despite the efforts of the Mutton Renaissance Campaign in the UK.
A new report compares the average U.S. prices for popular groceries and popular foods to what the rest of the world pays. Read on to find out where the U.S. stacks up.
Rank Country Meat production (in tonnes) Year 1 China 92,948,520 2022 2 United States 47,530,724 2022 3 Brazil 30,397,944 2022 4 Russia 12,244,950 2022 5 India ...
Mutton flaps, or breast of lamb, are an inexpensive cut of meat from a sheep. Consisting of a sheep's lower rib meat, mutton flaps are considered a low-quality cut in Western countries, as opposed to pork and beef ribs. [1] They have been described there as a "tough, scraggy meat", if not properly prepared. [2]
A sheep in its first year is called a lamb, and its meat is also called lamb. The meat of a juvenile sheep older than one year is hogget; outside North America this is also a term for the living animal. [1] The meat of an adult sheep is mutton, a term only used for the meat, not the living animal. Meat from sheep features prominently in several ...
The culinary name "chevon", a blend of chèvre "goat" in French and mouton "sheep" in French, was coined in 1922 and selected by a trade association; it was adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1928, [7] [8] [9]: 19 however the term never caught on and is not encountered in the United States.
This is a list of sheep breeds usually considered to originate in Canada and the United States. [1] [2] Some may have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively from those countries.
Domestic sheep are also reared for their milk and meat (which is called lamb or mutton depending on the age of the animal). In wild sheep, both rams and ewes have horns, while in domestic sheep (depending upon breed) horns may be present in both rams and ewes, in rams only, or in neither. Rams' horns may be very large – those of a mature ...