Do you eat lamb at Easter?

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Leg is half-price just about everywhere. Just got one in Sainsburys.

The carrots and brocoli are only 15p in Asda too, like they were for Christmas.

No, absolutely hate the fatty smell.

when my rams come into season, that’s the smell they excrete.🤢 very hormonal

We always have a turkey at easter. I make a roast for my husband most weeks but I couldn't eat roast potatoes, lamb or pork if my life depended on it, and I don't like roast beef either.

On another thread you seem very keen on scientific progress on ageing. How do you think that is done?

Hate it roasted or in any way whole like chops etc. Far too greasy and slippery for me ugh.

I will eat minced lamb in shepherd's pie but rarely. It is usually a minced beef and pork cottage pie that I call a shepherd's pie lol.

Yes!!! Leg of lamb, roasties, mint sauce, carrots, parsnips, peas and purple sprouting broccoli followed by raspberry pavlova.

Cold lamb is the food of the Gods

I highly doubt it, even if we have moved on to lab grown meat if people have become squeamish about death people will always eat meat/ animal based proteins in some form.

Unless you think chemical fertilisers are a good thing then the healthiest way to maintain our soils is through animal manure which requires farming (and no there won't be herds of cattle/flocks of sheep living out their natural lives to achieve this).

I actually hope it goes the other way - that eating meat will be reserved for special occasions and treated with the respect it deserves, nose to tail. Animal welfare will be high and extensive low input systems the norm.

I love the specificness of the menu 😂

If anyone saw it on the other thread.... it was a joke!!!

I agree. I don’t like lamb at all, but eat it yearly because everyone else likes it . I just don’t see the appeal but that’s me.

Mmmm a musky old Swaledale tup. 😖

I love lamb but there has been a few times where you can tell there is some ram taint, usually at the cheap end, its no wonder some people are put off lamb if that is their experience of it.

Yes, having lamb and really looking forward to it. I cook mine with rosemary, garlic & anchovy, and I switched from mint sauce to making salsa verde a year or so ago and it's bloody gorgeous.

Oh yes, an anchovy rub is fabulous!

No, as much as I enjoy slow cooked lamb it's not in season at Easter, more likely from NZ or pre frozen. Lambing season had just started here this week.

Curious, is lamb not a common meat over there? In Australia is it super common. Like I had lamb twice last week (typically would have it once a fortnight maybe). Lamb chops, lamb roast. I often cook with lamb mince. I make lamb stroganoff. Probably eat less now as it is expensive and chicken and beef are cheaper. But if money was no object I would eat it more than beef.

Yup. My sister always hosts Easter lunch with LoL and Leg of Quorn for the vegetarians.

No. I'm vegetarian but my husband chooses to eat meat. But not lamb. It just smells of death when it cooks.

I don’t eat meat, but DH does. Always shop local, sustainable.

We can’t cook lamb in the house as the dog exhibits very strange behaviour!

Its just generally more expensive than in Australia whereas beef is generally cheaper in the UK than in Aus. Woolies/Coles averages $9/£4/kg for leg of lamb. In the UK, unless its on special at Easter and sometimes at Christmas, a leg of lamb is closer to $24/£12/kg!

My flocks are more pets than anything, and the rams like a good scratch between the horns. Its pungent 😂

hence why i hate lamb

Yes always have a leg of lamb from the Butcher on Easter Sunday

Oh wow that’s so expensive no wonder you don’t eat it. It’s more expensive than it used to be here. Lamb mince is quite cheap though I often make Greek meatballs or pastitsio with lamb mince.

I'm not very keen on lamb. We're going out for lunch Sunday but I'll cook beef and pork on Easter Monday. Yorkshire puddings too and apple sauce with apples from freezer that came from my garden last year.

Feeling quite stupid here as I’ve ordered direct from a local farm that does meat boxes - I always assumed British Easter lamb were just early lambs, not last years.
might have to ask them!

Oh I quoted the wrong post. Sorry, it’s late!

@hushabybaby the fish sounds nice.

I stopped eating meat a couple of decades ago and genuinely can't remember what lamb tastes like, so we can't have had it very often