I've had lamb a few times and always been deeply unimpressed. It's probably just that it doesn't do right.
Though I feel like it's a lot easier to cook a decent beef steak then it is to prepare lamb that is good.
Lamb Reigns Supreme, How would U.S. society / culture be different today?
I've had lamb a few times and always been deeply unimpressed. It's probably just that it doesn't do right.
Though I feel like it's a lot easier to cook a decent beef steak then it is to prepare lamb that is good.
Not really, it’s just a matter of what people are used to cooking. But if you try cooking lamb as if it was beef it turns out horrible, and vice versa.
Although my mum is equally terrible with anything, she can make any animal taste like an elderly reebok.
AFAIK what is sold as "lamb" in the US is actually mutton. It's from adult sheep unless it's called "young lamb".
But yeah, grown sheep are probably still more anthropomorphized than cows.
Is there a way post WWII to increase the immigration of the Basque, Greeks, Turks, Lebanese and other southern Europeans/northern Africa , middle eastern who herd and eat sheep/Lamb more then traditional western and northern Europeans ? Like have more Basque settle in places like central California , Idaho and rural parts of the PNW then move to bigger cities and open restaurants ? Lamb to me taste real good when cooked right.. I always take Lamb over beef or chicken at the Greek and Turkish Peta places.
Y’all gotta have some kibbi! Both baked/fried kibbi and kibbi nayeh (raw lamb with some seasoning) is amazing.
It’s just a matter of culture, most people in the US are descended from people groups who used lamb/sheep as a sort of throwaway food, and generally didn’t use the meat in the right way, or outright didn’t eat lamb/sheep at all. And considering that Middle Eastern/Mediterranean food doesn’t really appeal to most Americans, at least beyond a few select dishes served at “Mediterranean” restaurants, I just can’t see how exactly you could get people to accept lamb/sheep meat when the way it’s prepared doesn’t fit the American palette or is bland if edible, I really can’t see it happening. Even today, when many people think of themselves as open to other food and cultures, if you ask someone if they want lamb they’ll be quite resistant to the concept.
All east of the med, no?
But it’s kinda weird just how much of a stranglehold beef has managed to get in the US. Even in the 52nd state there is a lot of traditional style lamb (classically Welsh lamb) eaten. France, Scandinavia, Germany will all chow down some lamb so even in the “bland belt” of north and west Europe its a fairly common meat.
I guess to directly answer the OP it would mean at a minimum greater diversity of food prep/culture as I find it hard to imagine a complete 1:1 switch of beefopoly to sheepopoly.
In terms of demand - if you can somehow arrange for the immigration restrictions to miss turkey /greece you could have huge number of immigrants arrive following the various Greek/Turkish issues in late 19th early 20th century - which would give some different cuisine as well as possibly the most vicious street gang battles of all time. But that is very late to cause such a radical shift.
Supply - it would not surprise me if the various grazing and land rules are set up to favour cattle, since the beef men won the grazing wars. May need some tweaks on that side too.