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They were Poor Little Lambs Who had Lost their Way, Baa Baa Baa,Little lost sheep who had gone astray Baa Baa Baa, Stuck on a plate with Tatties and greens,With a little Mint Sauce to give extra taste it seems,Baa Baa Baa, :-D :-D :-D Plus of course, a Bottle of Chardonay :-D :-D :-D ;-)

and I would Ann :-D :-D :-D

you'd have to murder the whole lamb to get to the leg :-D

In the late 60s and early 70s I always bought NZ lamb because of the price. Post Common Market we really lost a lot of Commonwealth imports and suddenly realised we were at the mercy of the UK supermarkets and their price fixing.

We raised lambs and thought nothing of cooking a large leg mid week! After we sold the farm we looked at prices on the supermarket shelves and choked :-0 :-0

Now I bulk buy meat when it's on offer. Lamb is a luxury now.

We used to have rabbit, duck and pigeon brought to us for free once we had to buy it we thought twice.

As for the meat sold by the 'cheap outlets' it has been washed in a bleach solution and injection with gawd knows what to increase the weight. I wouldn't touch it with a 30 foot pole :-P

We are having chicken today but I could murder a leg of lamb..lolol

Sue

That reminds me of the rhyme
Mary had a little lamb, french fries and a coke.!

Guess what? I'm having a lamb chump chop tonight, courtesy of my friendly neighbour.

I haven't had one for ages, so this is a real treat for me. AUS lamb is now selling at $18 to $24 per kilo (different cuts) in our local butcher.

lolol Julia

Our local golf club has raffles every Friday, and OH usually buys tickets ~ and often wins!

A couple of weeks ago he brought home a "lump" of meat. No kidding, it looked like roadkill. Then we found a tiny label... it was a 2Kg piece of Angus beef!

Gloating again.......... it was absolutely beautiful!! Melt in the mouth.

Laughing here, because I just posted on the thread about vegetarians.

Scozz, Good Morning from a very sunny and hot Derbyshire.

There is a word for people like you ----"gloater" ....... You sound as if you enjoyed it, and my mouth is watering LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

OH bought some raffle tickets yesterday.

He won a prize!! A leg of lamb & 8 chump chops.

Guess who had roast lamb for dinner tonight..... with roast potatoes, sweet potatoes, cauliflower/brocolli with cheese sauce, peas & gravy.

Yum!!

No space left for the strawberries I got this morning..... might keep them for breakfast.

All the meat We have is Aberdeen Angus,delivered from Scotland ready frozen all you have to do is de freeze and cook it,no waste at all,and if its not up to the standard you like, they will replace or refund your money.that can,t be bad, I also get Salmon from them plus other things,a bit costly but not too. :-D :-D

I am enjoying all the stories.

The way things are going, i think we will all be eating Spam by Christmas! :-(

Don,t forget the Mint Sauce, :-D :-D

PigletsPal, I did not know that, but I am glad I know it now. I will not feel guilty when we are having a non-meat evening meal, and my little dog has to have some tinned meat.

Many Thanks

Julia in Derbyshire

John

'unfit for human consumption' ? Surely not !

I can only speak from my own slight knowledge of the meat trade and I can assure everybody that any meat found as John described is now condemned by hygiene inspectors and is full marked with purple dye before it is transported out of the market for disposal.

Jo

John, I for one do not buy supermarket meat.

Julia in Derbyshire

My father in law used to buy the most wonderful meat in the 1980's. It was from a meat processing plant in North Wales. The supermarkets used to take all the fresh and low fat carcasses, he used to pick up the meat that the supermarkets thought was unfit for human consumption. He did not have to spend much.

Usually he brought home high fat lamb and beef. And when that is cooked up, it is a million times tastier than supermarket meat :-D :-D

A few years ago a truck loaded with meat went to a dog food factory in Australia.

The inspector at the factory said the meat was inferior quality and refused to take it.

The driver contacted base, and was told to go to another factory.......... where they made meat pies for human consumption!! They took the meat.

True story.

I rarely eat meat pies, and I make my own veggie pasties.

This brings back a few memories, I was in the Mercant Navy from 1949-59 and on

one of my trips to OZ in 1950 we were berthed at an Abattoir in Brisbane and were

loading up Lamb Carcasses, I decided to buy one to take home, it cost me £1-2-6d

(1.12p) the problem was that nobody in our road had fridges at that time, so my

Mum had to cut it up when it had thawed and then shared it out with the neighbours.

I reckon they thought all their Christmases had come at once, as meat didn't come

of ration untill about July 1954. I can still remember those Lamb Stews mother used

to make.


F

Jo, no I didn't think that you were gloating. I just thought how fortunate you are and how good of your SiL.

Yes John, but there is meat and there is meat. The meat that is sold ie. in the butchers shop or supermarket, has to meet a certain criteria. But the meat that goes into made up foods etc., are the pieces that cannot be sold over the counter. And that is the polite version.

Julia in Derbyshire

Yet you can buy a pizza with loads of meat on it from Farm Foods for £1 and an Admiral's Pie with quite a lot of fish from same place for 75pence. And a 10% discount if you spend more than £25. Doesn't make sense to me.

We always had either lamb, beef or pork for Chistmas lunch when I was a boy in 1950's, and it wouldn't have been very expensive. The treat was chicken, which was much more expensive than the other 3.