"Rhonda Anderson" > wrote in message
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> "MG" > wrote in
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>> "Rhonda Anderson" > wrote in message
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>>> Unfortunately here in Australia - at least in NSW where I live - the
>>> name "shepherd's pie" has also come to be associated with the beef
>>> version. Most people would be unaware that it's supposed to be lamb.
>>>
>>> Rhonda Anderson
>>> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia
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>> same here in SA Rhonda,
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>> though a few people, when I asked them what they thought its origin
>> was, admitted that it "used" to be made with leftover lamb roast lol
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> I remember talking to my sis about it once, and she reckoned that it's
> evolved into the beef product, so that's what it is, regardless of
> what
> it used to be. If my mum made it, I think she probably made it with
> beef
> - I doubt it was with leftover lamb roast as we had a leg of lamb only
> on
> special occasions and then leftovers went on sandwiches.
>
> When a national promotion for beef uses shepherd's pie as one of the
> recipes (at least I think it was a national promotion - a couple of
> years
> ago maybe, on telly, in magazines etc.) then what else can you expect
> <g>.

Good Heavens!!!!!!!!!!!!! They need to be told. Mike!!!!!!