Omelet wrote:

> In article >, "Jean B."
> > wrote:
>
>> ChattyCathy wrote:
>>
>> > Funny how tastes vary. Mom *always* made mint sauce to go with our
>> > roast leg of lamb (which was one of our Sunday lunch regulars when
>> > I was a kid). I liked it. Maybe it's a British Thing, I dunno.
>>
>> No. I love mint with lamb.
>
> Ok. :-) But I eat very little lamb. It's too expensive!

Never understood why lamb is so expensive in the USA... Must be
thousands of cattle ranchers there - and AFAIAA, if you can raise
cattle you can raise sheep on the same grazing land - because lots of
farmers 'round here raise both... However, lamb/mutton is still a
(little) bit cheaper than beef.

Piece of useless trivia, my son bought a whole dressed sheep that
weighed 17kg (i.e. skinned and with the head and innards removed) a
couple of weeks ago - we were having a party and we cooked it (whole)
on a 'spit' (outdoor rotisserie kinda thing). It cost us ZAR640-00,
which is about USD86.48 at the current exchange rate. <Some more calcs>
17kg = 37.48lb, which would make the price per pound roughly US$2.30.
Of course when you buy the whole thing you get some good quality meat
and some not so good, but it was delicious nonetheless. We fed 16
people from that sheep - and a couple of our friends' dogs were mighty
happy to get the bones afterwards <grin>
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Cheers
Chatty Cathy