The other red meat
Okay... this is annoying. I've been trying to track down a source for kosher goat meat. Why should that be a problem? Kosher beef, easy. Kosher lamb, almost as easy. I can even find kosher elk and kosher venison. But goat is elusive.
When the Temple is standing, we offer goats and sheep and cows... but only sheep and cows seem to be available as kosher meats these days.
So far, I've managed to find one wholesaler (in New York!) that carries some packaged goat from Minnesota, or South Dakota, or somewhere around there. They're closed for the day, but I'm going to be trying to get ahold of them tomorrow to find out if they sell it to anyone outside of the NY area.
Why is lamb so easy to obtain, and goat so nearly impossible?
When the Temple is standing, we offer goats and sheep and cows... but only sheep and cows seem to be available as kosher meats these days.
So far, I've managed to find one wholesaler (in New York!) that carries some packaged goat from Minnesota, or South Dakota, or somewhere around there. They're closed for the day, but I'm going to be trying to get ahold of them tomorrow to find out if they sell it to anyone outside of the NY area.
Why is lamb so easy to obtain, and goat so nearly impossible?
posted by Lisa | 5:35 PM
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B"H
I don't like goat meat. Too rich.
There a few shepherds here. We have plenty of goats, quail, geese, a peacock, and even a pregnant buffalo (mouth watering).
But no more sheep. :-(
Too bad, we can't trade.
Although, a goat is shechted every once in a while, like on haggim, or for the birth of a kid, Jews here mostly have them for milk.
For the same reason you can't get goat in normal treif butcher shops, unless it's a West Indian neighbourhood or something like that. For that matter, it's the same reason you can get lamb but not mutton. Not enough people like it.
I've had goat meat at the house of some Yemenite friends in Israel. I think the flavor reminded me of lamb, but I don't really remember, so I guess it didn't make a big impression on me.
I saw a sign advertising special orders for whole goat at the Village Market in Skokie, but it wouldn't be kosher.
I tried goat milk once out of curiosity. I found it revolting: it tasted like lamb-flavored milk. Now having not grown up Jewish, I don't have what I imagine might be the aversion that someone who has always kept kosher might have to meat and dairy together: I've eaten and enjoyed sausage pizza, cheeseburgers, beef stroganoff and meat and cheese lasagna, for example. But meat-flavored milk was completely disgusting to me. That reaction was surprising because I having grown up in a Chinese household, I was exposed to and ate many strange things that most Americans would not even think of considering as food.
I keep kosher now, so if I would ever be tempted to eat meat with dairy, all I would have to do is to remember the above flavor to kill my appetite for such a treif combination.
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