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From: "Marie Burt" <>
Subject: Re: [GAFORSYT] GAFORSYT Digest, Vol 1, Issue 22
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:53:45 -0500
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I too have never tasted lamb but don't think I want to.
I smelled it cooking and that was enough for me.
I will take the other mentioned meats without question.
Maybe lamb tastes better on the tongue than when cooking. I hope so.
Marie
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Subject: GAFORSYT Digest, Vol 1, Issue 22


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> 1. Christmas food (ron stone <>)
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> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:06:55 -0500 (EST)
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> We were just sitting there discussing foods of Christmas when it struck
> me that Turkey,
> Standing Rib Roasts and various honeyed, or unhoneyed, hams were always
> getting mentoned.
> Yet in the story granny read me as a kid, the angels didn't seranade some
> local swineherd, nor
> was it that fellow responsible for the local rent a camel operation.
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> No! It was the sheperd who watched his flock by night. So clearly, there
> was lamb. That being the case, why don't we have Lamb Roast for His
> birthday dinner?
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> For that matter, being a child of the depression in the south, am I the
> only one who doesn't
> ever remember eating lamb? Lots of salt pork, roasted pork, pork buttes,
> chitlins, and who knows whatever other part of the pig (though none were
> ever curly enough to be the tail) but no lamb.
>
> We had chicken, freshly wrung and flopped and dipped and picked, then
> fried, stewed, roasted and .. etc... and in this case there was that
> little arrow shaped thing that went over the fence last ...the tail. But
> no lamb.
>
> Some folks probably had whatever dad could shoot... squirrel maybe? Rabbit
> maybe? Goose perhaps... we had goose once, but no lamb.
>
> Donna, I am wondering if I am the only son of the south who didn't have
> lamb before I got to CA. I would glady take others thoughts off the list
> at <>
> (not wanting to be banned forever)
> ron in CA
> Merry Christmas to all
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