I am told that Americans and Germans seldom eat lamb, why is this?

I don't eat meat at all but when I did I remember lamb as one of the most delicious, far superior to beef, which is tasteless in comparison but then I liked the most commonly eaten meat, goat. Generally lamb is cheaper to produce than beef, thriving on rougher pasture and eing more hardy, so if it is more expensive there, I cannot imagine why, unless you don't have hill farms or rough grazing? all the best, urban

Lamb has a much more pleasant taste as opposed to mutton which is much stronger and tougher. I imagine that here in the States that it is less costly to raise cattle than it is sheep. Sheep are smaller so you get less meat per animal. Also they would have to be slaughtered at 6 months to a year in order for them to be considered "lamb". I would think it would be more profitable for a farmer to raise sheep for the wool as opposed to the meat. Interesting discussion. I'm kind of curious now.

Yes, sheep are smaller but you may get as many as 7 times as many per land unit, I don't know off hand kg of meat per land unit but I would be surprised if beef outstripped lamb all the best, urban

Yeah, where I live it's hard to find any kind of sheep or goat, there's a lot of beef, pork and chicken though.

Really? But do you eat other meats? It is so odd to hear that all the best, urban

I don't think it is true that it makes you smell, at least no more than any meat all the best, urban

Yes I eat pork,beef,chicken. lamb has a stronger smell even its well done. Some people that ate said It could also be smelled on your body.

What was unpleasant about it? all the best, urban

Lamb tastes gamey? Have you never eaten goat, rabbit, pheasant or venison? all the best, urban

It tingles my tongue, and just tastes really gamey to me.

No one told me, I saw a statistic that lamb makes up only a very small percentage of meat eaten in USA and Germany, can't find it now but I think it was as low as 9% of all meat all he best, urban

Curious all the bleat, urban

I do know that lamb is often served bone in. My father used to love lamb chops, but because they were expensive, my mother only made them maybe once a year and only for him. So, until I enjoyed eating at Indian and Mediterranean restaurants, I had never eaten lamb myself. And, those restaurants all serve their meals with the meat in cubes. Even the Brazilian steakhouse I enjoyed put their lamb on skewers (like kabobs) with no bones. But, in all the Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Indian and Pakistani/Afghani/Indian restaurants I've been to as well as Jamaican all cut the goat up into small pieces WITH the bones still in them. In some cases, what I thought was meat was nothing but bone. When I got meat, it tasted good and was tender, but sometimes there was more bone than meat. I've wondered why all this time. I still don't understand why they can cut the lamb meat into small pieces without bones but not the goat.

Well if they don't sell it you can't try it! all the best, urban

Oh yummy, lamb shanks. People used to give them to their dogs. They were very cheap but now they are terribly expensive. I've always loved lamb shanks but now I can't afford them.

I wonder if you are happy to eat a poor little calf? all the best, urban

baby calf = veal. Had it once

It is so strange to hear that it tastes foul to you all the best, urban