> Americans don't eat a lot of lamb or mutton at all do they? Not really. Lamb and mutton are generally expensive meats and can be more difficult to find since

> Americans don't eat a lot of lamb or mutton at all do they? Not really. Lamb and mutton are generally expensive meats and can be more difficult to find since the major chains tend not to carry them. I once had a shepherd's pie in the US that was made with beef! I didn't realize it was suppposed to have lamb until I was older - I grew up thinking it was a beef meal. Presumably because they weren't able to source any lamb at all. This rings true. I grew up eating a lot of quasi-traditional syrian food, both from my grandmother (1st generation in the US) and at church (Eastern Orthodox with a good amount of the service in arabic, and some folks that didn't speak english). Traditionally, these were made with lamb, but I had always eaten them with beef because that was what was available/affordable and folks got used to it.