Goat meat
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I've eaten goat,, mutton & lamb several times. I enjoy it all.
Busterswoodshop
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When I was a kid we had some goats.
We used them for the milk mainly.
We butchered a billy goat once , and he tasted like he smelled.
We used them for the milk mainly.
We butchered a billy goat once , and he tasted like he smelled.
Bob Wright
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Many years ago I was in Birmingham, AL and the restaurant we were to et in featured BBQ goat. Slathered with wnough sauce, it tasted like BBQ sauce. But the meat was tender and sliced.
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coachk64
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When I was a child, my stepdad was in the Air Force, and every time the Air Force Academy played the Navy in football, his unit would hold a picnic where they would barbecue a goat. Than goodness they didn't have the same tradition for games against Army, because the Army mascot is a mule.
The last time I had it was many, many years ago at a Serbian Church event in the California Gold Country. If I recall, it was sort of like lamb. Seems ok to me. Not great, but not bad either.
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We had a buck and on a hot morning with some humidify your eyes would water going out to the car. I was afraid the smell would get my clothes, and I would take it to work.
In the late 1970s I worked on a purchase investigation in Brownsville, TX for 3 months. Our daily restaurant visits included many trips to a local restaurant whose specialties included cabrito (at dinner or supper) and menudo at breakfast. Excellent fare. Both meals were served with yellow corn tortillas and salsa.
Ever since, I've searched for places in the DFW area that specialize in cabrito but have never found a restaurant that does it "right." The best menudo places I've found are hole-in-the-wall restaurants that open for breakfast, then shut down until 11: 30 am. I just look for construction workers' beat-up pickup trucks in the parking lot - a sure sign of good food.
Ever since, I've searched for places in the DFW area that specialize in cabrito but have never found a restaurant that does it "right." The best menudo places I've found are hole-in-the-wall restaurants that open for breakfast, then shut down until 11: 30 am. I just look for construction workers' beat-up pickup trucks in the parking lot - a sure sign of good food.
I have not eaten the meat but goat milk is disgusting.
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I lived in Thailand 74-80, mostly Bangkok. Near the general post office were two Sihk restaurants that served up a goat curry that still ranks as some of the best food I've ever eaten.
I had an uncle that had a farm in the hills about 40 miles from where I grew up. Every summer he would BBQue a goat in a pit in the ground. All the veggies and trimin's. All the aunts, uncles, cousins and some friends would converge. Was a great meal. BBque coat is very good, and a welcome change from pork or beef. Been years since I had it. All the kids would spend the day running up and down the hills. Wasn't until several years later we learned there was an abundance of rattlers and copperheads in those hills!
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Not wanting to sound like Cliff on cheers but we had goats, and different breeds had different milk particularly fat content. And depending on the diet taste can change. I've heard that the milk can also be tainted by a buck in the herd but doesn't sound right to me. I have done my share of milking. I prefer Bordens regular milk.
Yeah. One of my sons and his family raised goats for milk and the occasional sale (usually of the buck kids). They didn't keep a resident buck, just "borrowed" one annually for a couple of weeks.
Those are some seriously foul critters.
I've had "jerk" goat in Bermuda several times every time I sail down there. It's very similar to lamb, tastes wonderful. For me the biggest treat down there is wahoo…wahoo tacos, wahoo nuggets, broiled wahoo. Then there's several species of snapper…
While I was stationed near Chiang Mai, Thailand 1972-73 (in the jungle highlands about 20 miles east of Burma) locals caught nutrias (basically king-sized rats). They'd impale them on tree branches, then barbeque and eat them. But I never even saw any goats - alive or cooked. We lived exclusively off of the local economy and ate at the same places as did the locals.
The food there mirrored the cultural mix of the area's residents - a mix of Northern Thai, Burmese, Pakistani, Indian and Laotian. There were always new and different foods (and drink) to sample. My girlfriend - whose lineage was an exotic combination of Burmese and French - liked that I was adventurous, so she took me to many off-the-beaten path places - places GI's were warned not to visit.
We visited a wat (Buddhist temple) near Mae Chan, 10 miles from the Burma border, that was over 1,500 years old. Inside was a 8' tall statue of Buddha coated in gold leaf that had been applied, over the many centuries, by worshipers who melted the gold leaf into the statue with a candle. My girlfriend told me that gold was more than 2" thick.
From that wat, we travelled on to Mae Sai on the Thai/Burma border, but no further. My girlfriend told me it was too dangerous to cross into Burma - the opium/heroin traffickers were known to kidnap and "dispose of" strangers who ventured there. I believed her. [My friend, a Chiang Mai-based USAID agent (a cover for his CIA employment), later told me why my girlfriend was so knowledgeable about that area. She was the daughter of a mid-level opium lord who lived near Mae Sai. My friend had reason to know this - he was responsible for coordinating opium/heroin smuggling from Burma to Chiang Mai, and then on to Bangkok for international trafficking to Europe and the US.]
DerekR
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I have never had goat I didn't like. As for lamb, no thank you.
Skeet 028
Single-Sixer
Back when we grew Strawberries and asparagus we had a family of Mexican workers picking..Around the Easter May time of the year(asparagus) they always had goat ...cooked about every way. I tried it but was not fond of it. ...but did et other foods those ladies cooked...That extended family were great workers and saved their earnings. I visited them in Mexico...They had a beautiful home(better than our place) and believe it or not...servants. Gracious folks too. I hung with them picking berries but no match on asparagus or handpicked sweet corn...
dadstillsurfs
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If that's true, the goat was sick or had been fed poorly. I used to drive 8 miles out of my way to get fresh goat milk in Mendocino County.
I was introduced to birria (braised goat) at a restaurant in Arbuckle, CA. I asked if they had fajitas; they did not, but "if you like fajitas, you'll really like our birria". They weren't lying, it was stupendous!
It's the chef and the ingredients that makes a dish... not just the ingredients.
But I'm a sucker for Mexican / Spanish / Portuguese cuisine anyway...
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I've tried goat meat and goat milk. Not fond of either. We've owned goats and those suckers stink. I'm sure I went into it with some preconceived idea… so no goat for me. We're considering getting some goats again to control the poison oak and weeds. I guarantee that would be some foul tasting meat- not that I'll ever find out.
I've actually been one quite accustomed to the taste of oat milk. Yes, oat milk. I actually prefer it to cow milk now.
I've actually been one quite accustomed to the taste of oat milk. Yes, oat milk. I actually prefer it to cow milk now.
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