Hindus don't eat cows; Muslims, pigs. Fair enough.

When I was part of an Asian family in Nairobi we only seemed to eat goat...delishious. We mostly ate the ribs (the food always had lots of bones to be savoured) but occasionally we ate the brains too.

Not on religious grounds but my friend stopped eating lamb when she was about 25 as she was shocked to discover it was little baby sheep and not goat as she had always been told by her Mum since she got upset at eating baby sheeps when she was about 5. Still not sure how it took her 20 years to figure it all out, but there you go

#19 mockchoc - no idea what part of the goat it was. It was in a restaurant. But saw bags of frozen goat in the Cook Islands a few years back and it looked boney, too. Most goats I've seen (including on my own property) looked as though they didn't carry much surplus flesh. But I guess it depends how you cut up the carcas.

In India, when you see 'mutton' on a menu it is normally goat not sheep....or so I've been told.

mockchoc,
I can agree goat meat is like a cross lamb/beef. The dish I tried was chanfana, which is popular in central Portugal. It's a stew made of goat meat, slowcooked in wine.
I've heard goat stew is also popular in Jamaycan comunity in England. Never tried it though.

Who's highest on the food chain, anyhow? Sheesh! Eat whatcha want!

These conversations about food can get your goat (prendre la chèvre).
I ate what I wanted and gained weight.

Not religious grounds, but in the Western US, cattlemen wouldn't eat sheep unless they were *hit-disturbers like my gramps who would go into a Denver steak estuarant and demand lamb chops.

Thanks for replies - and jokes and puns galore too!

Legs of lamb This ones for a large family.