What is Mutton?

[ShiaMan14]

A few years ago, an Australian friend of mine and I got into this whole discussion about whether mutton is sheep or goat. Thoughts...

Edited April 18, 2017 by shiaman14

[Guest]

Mutton is sheep. Goat meat is called chevon. 

[DigitalUmmah]

"mutton dressed as lamb" would make no sense if it was goat man

[ShiaMan14]

1 minute ago, starlight said:

Mutton is sheep. Goat meat is called chevon. 

so all this time I have had mutton biryani, its been sheep and not goat???

[notme]

mutton
[muht-n] 

noun
1.the flesh of sheep, especially full-grown or more mature sheep, used as food.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mutton?s=t

 

[Marbles]

4 minutes ago, shiaman14 said:

so all this time I have had mutton biryani, its been sheep and not goat???

No, "mutton" is commonly used for both sheep and goat, esp among the desis. 

Our mutton biryanis and mutton karahis are mostly prepared with goat meat, although I don't mind sheep for a change.

[Marbles]

10 minutes ago, starlight said:

Goat meat is called chevon. 

Yes, in France.

Wiki says:

In some parts of Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh; the word "mutton" is sometimes used to describe both goat and sheep meat, despite its more specific meaning (limited to the meat of adult sheep) in the UK, US, Australia and other English-speaking countries.

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, starlight said:

Mutton is sheep. Goat meat is called chevon. 

What marbles said. Mutton is loosely used for both goat and sheep. 

[Ron_Burgundy]

to me goat meat is mutton and it tastes delicious. 

[ShiaMan14]

25 minutes ago, DigitalUmmah said:

"mutton dressed as lamb" would make no sense if it was goat man

sure it wouldmake sense. It would be one evil goat I tell ya.

15 minutes ago, starlight said:

What marbles said. Mutton is loosely used for both goat and sheep. 

Ah ha!!!

[ShiaMan14]

2 minutes ago, Ron_Burgundy said:

to me goat meat is mutton and it tastes delicious. 

 

[ShiaMan14]

So my team and I were working on a major project in Singapore. It was about 8pm. I was starving and...
 

ME: I could do with a nice hot plate of spicy mutton biryani.
NB: Ah, you know the best sheep comes from Australia.
ME: Goat biryani NB.
NB: You said mutton.
ME: Yup.
NB: Mutton is sheep mate.
ME: Beg to differ NB.
NB: Mate, what are you on about?
ME: Everyone knows mutton is goat.

IY (Indian): NB - SM is right, mutton is goat.
NB: not you too IY.

Then a couple of other people got involved. We used different online sources to prove our point and spent about 20 minutes on the issue. It was the funniest conversation...

[Ron_Burgundy]

 

[ShiaMan14]

30 minutes ago, Ron_Burgundy said:

 

errrrr, what kind of fake biryani is this??? Where's the rice?

Edited April 18, 2017 by shiaman14

[Marbles]

1 hour ago, shiaman14 said:

errrrr, what kind of fake biryani is this??? Where's the rice?

That's mutton karahi dude...

[ShiaMan14]

58 minutes ago, Marbles said:

That's mutton karahi dude...

yes brother. I see the karahi and the mutton in it. It is not biryani if there is no rice.

@Ron_Burgundy - who serves mutton karahi without naan.

sooooo hungry.

[Sumerian]

Then what's venison? 

[ShiaMan14]

26 minutes ago, E.L King said:

Then what's venison? 

Dear, venison is deer