So Friday afternoons after school I would walk into the house smelling the glorious aroma of leg of lamb. I guess my mom and I were weirdos! As an adult, I could purchase leg of lamb around Christmas, and lambchops a few times a year. Now, (I’m in California) you have to pre-order it, but only a few times a year. And the butcher gives you a funny look. What is so amazing to me, is that no one in my social circle (for years) has ever tried lamb. They give me funny looks. Why do Americans have an anti-lamb bias? To me it’s the nectar of the gods. And when you can get it here, the price is through the roof. (I’m a city girl - but I now live in a Mexican community where they eat goat meat, goat milk, goat cheese. At first I got really excited - I confused goats with lambs!) Goat cheese is great, never tried the meat. (Well, okay, once, my husband tricked me with a goat tripe taco… I was thinking, this is NOT beef).
Who loves lamb?
Really? I love lamb!
Lamb roast, lamb cutlets.
I’m Australian, I eat lamb cutlets at least four times a week, it’s some of the best meat.
You crazy for not enjoying lamb lol.
I love lamb - it’s all the rest of U.S. who apparently don’t. You guys are so lucky. I could eat it every night.
The Sprout’s grocery store here in AZ always has some sort of lamb. I think I cooked it wrong the one time I tried to make it. Do you have a good recipe/technique? I would like to try it again
Hi Katie, how are you - how cool that you were the first poster on my thread. Why am I not surprised that it would be an Australian? I stay up nights trying to come up with bizarre and vaguely interesting threads 
. But seriously, this came about because, 15 weeks into Keto, I realized I was not getting enough protein, even though I want to increase muscle mass. So, my thought process was - okay, store tomorrow, chicken, beef, pork, chicken, beef, pork. Then I started having fantasies about lamb. If I can’t buy it, I can write about it. 
We have a Sprouts, just not right around the corner. I wonder why they stock it and conventional grocery stores don’t? No particular recipe, just lots of rosemary and sage.
We have it in most of our grocery stores in Canada, but prices are too much for me to even try it.
No kidding - why are the prices so high? Because there is no demand? Apparently there are problems in paradise. http://dels.nas.edu/resources/static-assets/materials-based-on-reports/reports-in-brief/SheepFinal.pdf
But it still begs the question - why do Australians love lamb and Americans don’t? And I would hope someone from Britain would chime in.
“Marked by its distinct flavor, lamb meat is a relatively minor product in most food stores.” Hey, distinct is good.
@Regina, I don’t know where you live in California, but NorCal raises a lot of lamb and it is available in a lot of stores in the SF Bay Area.
Here are some lamb ads from Australia to cheer you up… I have my own sheep and breed lambs and it is the best meat. We Aussies love it.
Enjoy.
I love lamb!!!
But yes, it is hard to find and crazy expensive.
I got a recipe from a Russian dude for lamp kebabs and you can marinate in the fridge up to a week. Then skewer with some peppers and zucchini and toss on the grill.
My neighbors from New Jersey serve it all the time when they have a dinner party. Sounds fancy. LOL. Just all of us neighbors who get together, eat and drink some wine, then clear the table for some simple card games. Something that doesn’t require a lot of concentration so we can still tell stories and visit.
We go to a Greek restaurant 40 minutes away if we want lamb. So worth it - but still wish it could be easily purchased here.
I love lamb (of course).
I live in the U.S. - and get my lamb at Costco, a great deal (though it’s from far away Australia, def not regional). I buy a huge $25 boned shoulder with lots of fat, and take the time to cube it up and put it into 3-4 small freezer bags. Each bag is a meal for 2-3.
Or, I go to a Punjabi/north Indian resaturant and pick up lamb kebab, lamb curry, etc.
The good thing about lamb is that it’s a grassfed ruminant, except for just the last few weeks in some farm practices to fatten them up. Ruminants that are fed grain for longer than a brief time get ill, etc. So, sheep have generally happy outdoor grassfed lives for a longer time than conventional range beef which is grain fed for a number of months before slaughter, etc.
So, personally, I always order lamb when at restaurants.
I’m in the UK and I love lamb. Plenty of other people do too it seems as it was sold out today in the supermarket, so I had to buy beef joint instead. I’ll have to go shopping earlier next week! Prices for lamb are similar to beef here. It’s pork that’s cheap and plentiful.
Generations of American lovers of lamb here! My husband’s family too. My son also married a lamb lover. But we are a minority. I rarely see lamb on menus. I also buy leg of lamb and lamb chops at Costco. Most of it is from Australia or New Zealand
The story I was told about Americans fear of even trying lamb had to do with memories of strong, stringy mutton and lack of understanding of how to cook it too. Some of the grocery stores carry ground lamb which makes great burgers.