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Here in the UK that is the case but, not for spices but for herbs. If you're from the UK you'll know that mint source with your Sunday roast is very common. It

• robocat 8y ago
  > to make their old lamb/mutton taste better I find that hard to swallow. I think if you are brought up on mutton, then mutton tastes great! Although mutton or hogget is hard to find now. I generally dislike most European beef dishes because they use tasteless (to me) veal or wintered(?) cattle. I prefer grass fed - probably because that is what I am used to? And then it seems the same crowd get excited about wild pork or venison - strong flavored - the opinions just seem dissonant to me. Although I do find ram, billy goat, and old glandy boar are rather too tasty for me!
  • nrki 8y ago
    Note that he said "old" as in, probably well past any "use-by" date (that wouldn't have existed back then). :)
  • jwbensley 8y ago
    As per @nrki's comment; > I think if you are brought up on mutton, then mutton tastes great No one has been "brought up on" any kind of meat further ago than the last 100 years or so, people couldn't afford it. People kept animals until they were old and had no other purposes (like milk or wool) before they were killed for meat.
    • staticautomatic 8y ago
      That's definitely not true.