As part of work today, Julie and I got to head over to where we’re having our office holiday party and try some of their “holiday specialty” dishes. (Rough life, I know.) One of the foods we were offered was a crusted lamb chop, which was fantastic.
When we got back to the office, though, Julie suspected that it might not fly with the rest of the company. At first I was a little mystified. It’s not like it’s veal, after all, right? Then Laura pointed out that a lot of people in general don’t eat lamb and never have. Julie volunteered that she’d only had it for the first time a year ago.
So now, I’m curious… and am going to try and set a poll up using twiigs.com. Have you eaten lamb before? When? Or if not, why? (Let’s see if this works!)
Maybe it’s a British thing – we eat basically everything after all – but it would never cross my mind not to eat lamb on moral grounds.
I don’t eat it very often because I find the taste a little tart, but I’ve not moral qualms about it at all.
Lamb, garlic, mint sauce, jacket potatoes = Yum!
Baby sheep are for filling infants’ dreams with billowy clouds of cuteness and nuzzling toddlers in sweet fields of corn flowers, not for eating.
Fortunately, Catarina Lindqvist aside, us right-minded people seem to agree. Lamb is delicious.