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And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen? Well, the lamb now costs £5.19/kg. [1] 'Dem pleasant pastures be getting expensive. [1] http

• EliRivers 4y ago
  519.5 pence per kg, surely. Expensive, sure, but not 100 times as expensive.
• iso1631 4y ago
  No it doesn't. It costs £5.195 per kg
  • ljf 4y ago
    Nothing less than over £10 a kg here - unless you want liver/kidney/heart: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/fresh-food/fresh-meat-and-poultry/fresh-lamb https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/fresh-food/fresh-...
    • swarnie 4y ago
      OP is quoting slaughtered carcass price by the looks of it. Tesco will include butchering, transport and resale. Lots of farmers will sell you a lamb broken down if you make enquiries and its slightly cheaper.
• camjw 4y ago
  I think you're out by, um, 4 orders of magnitude? I'm reading your post as £51950/kg i.e. 50k a kilo. But actually your link puts the prices as a very respectable 519.5p a kilo i.e. roughly a fiver a kilo which is in the right ballpark for me. Maybe this was a joke that I didn't get? EDIT: You edited your post after I made this, but like a fiver a kilo for lamb sounds pretty doable to me.
  • OJFord 4y ago
    > fiver a kilo for lamb sounds pretty doable to me That's wholesale/supplier pricing, not supermarket/butcher. No idea what GP's point was though so I'm not commenting on/defending anything else!
    • ljf 4y ago
      Yeah - I have no idea where I can buy lamb that cheap. We can get deer really cheap from a pest control guy, and we still pay more than £5 a kg (think he charges £5 a pound, as he is old school) and it is some of the cheapest (and best) meat we can buy. Unfortunately once my wife and kids realised what type of deer is was (generally the little muntjac deer) they all went off it.
• chrisseaton 4y ago
  That is not how much lamb costs - nobody’s believing you.