Good food..

[treebear]

Still a chance to get a proper meal of mutton before Christmas. Traditionally last chance of getting one of these for dinner is last sunday before Christmas. Locally that day is called "Skoltasundag" directly translated to scullsunday.
Enjoy! (It´s actually quite tasty)
Cheers
Svein

 

[Smallwood]

Sorry, but that's just nasty looking. I'll only eat mutton if all the other food disappears and you'd have to put a gun to my head to make me eat that thing.
Merry Christmas,
Phil

 

[treebear]

Got the same feelings about burgers.

 

[rangerdanger]

Man, come on. a burger??? What gets more American than a burger and fries???

Still, I'm known here to try just about anything, but thats one thing I wouldn't try. Anything with a head still attached (or in this case, the head "detached") I won't eat.

 

[Chum]

Who would disparage the American ground beef frozen patties that aren't checked for E. Coli anymore and in the last two months over fourteen million pounds were re-called when one packinghouse submitted to a "suprize" examination?

Yummy.

 

[frans]

My understanding is that their are very few major packinghouses/slaughterhouses in the U.S.
Kansas I think has one.

I dont like the idea of eating something that is handled by so many people, shipped across the world to me, and could have anything in it, from bugs to kangaroos.
What really got me thinking about what meat I ate was a show on T.V. the discovery channel:
They showed slaughterhouses where the meat is mixed up and you may be eating 10 different cows in one burger. A cow from australia, one from Brazil, and who knows what else is mixed in?

We now only eat beef from our friends cows who live in a 400 acre grass pasture and we know the cow from birth to death and exactly what is has eaten for it's whole life (grass, home grown corn, apples from the orchard, etc etc).

The only time I eat burgers is the occasional burger from a restaurant.

 

[treebear]

Burgers, kebabs and hot dogs can all be described with the old say "What you don´t know won´t harm you". Where do the meat in those come from - or put in another way; do you really believe the slaughthouses toss away 2-3 pounds of beef usually found on a head?
Not saying this is bad meat, but for all you know you´ve been eating heads all along.
Well, anyway eating sheep head is not one of my favourites but it is kind of a cult thing here now. The origin of the custom is that throwing away good food is a sin,originally everything edible on the sheep was eaten - kidneys, lungs, bowls as sausage skin, testicles etc. When finished there were just white bones, candlefat and fleece left. Makes me feel a bit reliefed that I live now and not then.
Good apetite
Svein

 

[Smallwood]

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My understanding is that their are very few major packinghouses/slaughterhouses in the U.S.
Kansas I think has one.



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You're correct. In the 60's and 70's the USDA made an effort to drive many of the small local packing houses out of business. Since meat inspection was a marshal action the government was required to supply the inspectors, doctors of veterinary medicine and later lay inspects, at no cost to the industry. It may have seemed like a good idea an perhaps it was but one of the drawbacks was a greater chance that contaminated product would receive wide distribution. There probably are many fewer instances of contaminated meat being sold but when it happens it's a big deal.
Phil

 

[Smallwood]

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do you really believe the slaughthouses toss away 2-3 pounds of beef usually found on a head?
Not saying this is bad meat, but for all you know you´ve been eating heads all along.


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If you've eaten a hot dog then you've eaten beef cheek meat. Lungs, also used to be used because they made a great binding agent in the emulsified meat. They were banned around 40 years ago because it was determined that they couldn't be properly inspected. My grandfather was a British citizen and both he and my father ate lamb "fries", calf brains, tongue and oxtails and nothing was worse than bringing friends home and finding the whole house smell like cow pee from kidneys boiling on the stove. They could have eaten tenderloin every night of the week but I guess you learn to love what you've grown up with.
Phil

 

[easyphloem]

Man, I'm so hungry now.



SZ

 

[Mark Chisholm]

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Man, I'm so hungry now.



SZ

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Me too! Sheep- the other white meat.

Svein,
I remember the whole discussion we had on this custom when we were visiting and I still don't want one!

 

[ChuckR]

I prefer goat. Pretty good in a stew.