# Anyone here eat mutton? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312 "2007-11-14T00:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312/61 "2007-11-19T14:14:01Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] Oh, God, don’t believe everything that twit’s press office would have you believe! There’s been a general rise in the popularity of local, rare-breed and traditional meats for a lot longer than that, and he just has the benefit of a prominent position from which to promote himself, errr, I mean his causes. [/QUOTE] Yet, you failed to make a joke from “Prince Charles is behind…” “Why do Scotsmen wear [kilts](http://www.sattlers.org/mickey/culture/clothing/kilts/images/2005-02-charles-in-kilt-1.jpg)?” “Because the sheep can hear zippers.” Chuckie’s campaign indicates the rising trendiness of mutton & other traditional British foodstuffs. Of course he didn’t start it! I keep up with British trends–as featured on [BBCamerica](http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/239/index.jsp)… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312/62 "2007-11-19T15:54:41Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] Neutered male cattle are steers; neutered male pigs are barrows. This is done to make the meat the most palatable available. Is there not an equivalent in the ovine world? Is all mutton the same? [/QUOTE] Neutered male sheep are . . . scrams? ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312/63 "2007-11-20T13:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] Oh, God, don’t believe everything that twit’s press office would have you believe! There’s been a general rise in the popularity of local, rare-breed and traditional meats for a lot longer than that, and he just has the benefit of a prominent position from which to promote himself, errr, I mean his causes. [/QUOTE] Yes if you really want to become well known forget being heir to the throne,nobodys heard of you or are GOING to hear of you. Take my advice Charlie if you wanna get famous try promoting out of fashion meat products to the nation and you’ll be all over the tabloids in no time. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312/64 "2007-11-20T14:12:31Z")
Mutton is quite a regular dish among meat eaters here in India. It is expensive compared to chicken. Some of Hindu friends also eat it when they dine out. Not much of a distinction between mutton and lamb though … ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312/65 "2007-11-20T15:10:28Z")
Is the mutton done as a curry usually, **indian**? What’s the best mutton you have ever had and how was it prepared? Tangentially, and out of curiosity, besides tandoor, are there any other popular ways of grilling or barbecuing meat in India? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312/66 "2007-11-20T16:07:30Z")
Speaking of sauces, I was just rereading George Orwell’s classic 1945 essay [“In Defence of English Cooking,”](http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/cooking/english/e_dec) and he mentions, “redcurrant jelly, which is excellent with mutton as well as with hare.” I’ve never seen nor otherwise heard of redcurrant jelly (though I suppose it is made from the [berry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redcurrant) which is not the same as the [tiny grape or raisin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zante_currant) also known as a “currant”). **Is** it good with mutton? And where might one find it in the U.S.? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312/67 "2007-11-20T16:28:50Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Speaking of sauces, I was just rereading George Orwell’s classic 1945 essay [“In Defence of English Cooking,”](http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/cooking/english/e_dec) and he mentions, “redcurrant jelly, which is excellent with mutton as well as with hare.” I’ve never seen nor otherwise heard of redcurrant jelly (though I suppose it is made from the [berry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redcurrant) which is not the same as the [tiny grape or raisin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zante_currant) also known as a “currant”). **Is** it good with mutton? And where might one find it in the U.S.? [/QUOTE] I’m not sure where you’d get it but yes, redcurrant jelly is made from the berry (a close relative of blackcurrants and gooseberries). I shall probably be hanged for saying this, but cranberry sauce is not a million miles distant, in terms of the gustatory experience. I should be happy to obtain a jar of redcurrant jelly and send it to you if you would like to try it. PM me. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312/68 "2007-11-20T16:54:05Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] Is the mutton done as a curry usually, **indian**? What’s the best mutton you have ever had and how was it prepared? Well, it was in shanghai in a small restaurant it was sort of semi-dry dish , but tasted very good.. No idea about the preparation. Tangentially, and out of curiosity, besides tandoor, are there any other popular ways of grilling or barbecuing meat in India? [/QUOTE] Tandoor is the most popular across India ( at least what I have seen). But in south Indian state of Tamil nadu, there is a place called chettinad. ( inhabited by chettiar community, who were merchant traders for almost 6 centuries . They picked up the trading nation’s kitchen secrets on their voyages, and made them famous in India). They do have spectacular non-vegitarian dishes I read so frequently about . You may google “chettinad dishes”. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312/69 "2007-11-20T16:57:23Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3] Inspired by this thread, and with sufficient reasion to be in midtown in midweek (heh), I went over to Keen’s again and had another mutton chop. Mmmmm. [/quote] But accordiing to the NY Times article linked above (specifically, page 3 of the article), you’re not eating mutton at Keens, you’re eating lamb: > [@The NY Times](#): > > But the city’s most famous “mutton” offering, the Brobdingnagian chop served at the venerable Keens Steakhouse near Madison Square Garden, is actually just an outsize (if invariably delicious) hunk of lamb. Not mutton dressed up as lamb this time, but lamb dressed up as mutton. It doesn’t say _why_ Keens doesn’t serve actual mutton – maybe they can’t get it? – but it looks like they don’t. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312/70 "2007-11-20T18:32:15Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I’m not sure where you’d get it but yes, redcurrant jelly is made from the berry (a close relative of blackcurrants and gooseberries). I shall probably be hanged for saying this, but cranberry sauce is not a million miles distant, in terms of the gustatory experience. I should be happy to obtain a jar of redcurrant jelly and send it to you if you would like to try it. PM me. [/QUOTE] Thanx, but I’ve got no mutton to try it on. ☹ What **do** they do with the carcasses of superannuated sheep in the U.S., anyway? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-eat-mutton/426312.md?page=3)