Eastern Canada.
My understanding about lamb is that WWII soldiers were fed really nasty mutton for so long that when they came home, no one wanted lamb any more. Too bad too, because lamb is just awesome IMHO (I raise my own :). Mutton, I"ve never had a chance to try but I have a Mexican I sell sheep too that will buy really ancient ewes and says he has a recipe where he wraps the lamb meat inside the mutton meat and has a 12 spice mix that makes it all delicious. Can’t be all that bad, since he bought about 5 old ewes I was selling for a friend- and he and his wife were REALLY excited about it.
I used to raise pet rabbits, they are so dang cute but they like to die. They just aren’t the hardiest animals in the world and I can imagine that large scale operations to raise them would be difficult.
I was asking mangeorge. He said when he was a kid, he lived across the street from a Basque shepherd, and that the “rich folks” would get the lamb and he would eat the mutton, or something like that. I got the image of him growing up in some…village or something, I don’t know.
I have a friend who can’t eat lamb. He says that when he was younger, he went to visit some family of his in Ireland, and they served lamb, which he said tasted like “manure” and disgusted him so much that he can never eat it again. I don’t know how the hell they cooked it that was so disgusting, but that’s his story.