Ranee at Arabian Knits wrote:
>
> Lamb used to be more popular than beef here, during colonial and
> revolutionary times, probably a little later than that. However, tastes
> changed, I'm not sure why.

It's the mint jelly damnit! People got so caught up in this idea that
you have to have mint jelly with lamb, that they never tried wonderful
lamb without the horrid mint jelly and as a result didn't find it
appealing.

That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it...