Cows and BEEF PLEASE ANSWER.........?

Question

We dont eat sheep we eat lamb regardless whether its a young sheep or older its still lamb. Cows however - its beef. why not - for sunday roast we had calf? hmmmmmmm

Answer 1

For some reason, when the sheep is older we call the meat we use it for "mutton." So there is a distinction. I believe mutton is VERY tough and probably isn't that widely used or enjoyed. People actually eat lamb much more frequently than mutton, so that's probably why you've heard this term used more.

And we do eat veal...which is calf meat. Actually, I'm a meat eater but I do know that they treat veal calves VERY badly, restricting their movement severely and keeping them malnurished because paler veal is supposed to be better tasting.

Blech, maybe I'll go vegitarian for the day.

Answer 2

Veal--young immature cattle, usually male. Beef once they mature. Veal does NOT come from unborn animals. Steers are neutered males raised for beef. Heifers are virgin cows.

Venison--the meat from a deer. Any age, either sex.

Lamb--a young sheep or ram. Must be young, not much more than a year. When the animal sexually matures, you get...

Mutton--If you've had this, you won't forget it. Seldom seen in the U.S. An acquired taste. Whether it's tough or not is irrelevant; the flavor of the meat changes drastically. CANNOT be mistaken for lamb.

Answer 3

Baby Sheep - Lamb
Mature Sheep - Mutton
Baby Cow - Veal
Mature Cow - Beef

Answer 4

Lamb is a lamb. Old sheep is mutton. Beef is cow, calf is veal. Ok?

Answer 5

Your question does not parse! Only you can decide what you do and do not want to eat. If you have some special dietary requirement, please include that before asking if it is violated by this food.

In fact, the meat of an older sheep is called mutton or hoggett.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutton

The meat of a young sheep is lamb.

The meat of a young steer is called veal.

The meat of an older cow is simply beef, although there is a whole system of naming for the different parts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef

Answer 6

Older sheep is Mutton, Young beef is Veal,
If that doesn't put you off nothing will.
Addition for the benefit of the answer directly below, this "Numpty" thought that Deer meat was Venison, how about you

Answer 7

Spoof is wrong. Venison (not veal) is the flesh of a deer or similar animal as used for food.

Veal (or a vealer) is a calf raised for its meat, usually a milk-fed animal less than three months old. The conditions for raising calves for veal is extremely cruel and repugnant. Many meat eaters refuse to eat veal due to how the calves are raised. That said, veal cheeks are delicious (which I won't eat anymore after learning how the animals are raised).

Answer 8

Kalbsfleisch (kalf meat = veal) is on EVERY menu in Bavaria, and boy is it yummy. The UK does not seem to have so much of a tradition of using the very young cows. Traditions are always different from country to country, and they explain hundreds of differences (like why most UK people have never had the Schweinshaxe). .... I am surprised we have not heard more about young poultry and young pork on this discussion page.
... I suppose these are rarer (you guessed it, because of tradition), and because of the economic implications of killing & plucking a 4 lb animal when it was about to grow into a 90 lb animal (which makes more sense when you are selling by the pound).

Answer 9

Cows are beef because posh people thought French was more elegant when talking about food - thus boeuf (beef), porc (pork), and mouton (mutton) became the approved descriptors. Might even be a hangover from the Norman Conquest of 1066 when French became the language of the aristocracy in england.

Answer 10

ln UK we call young sheep lamb but older sheep is called mutton,it has to be under a certain age to be called lamb!Veal is the name for young cow,they never see daylight and l think they only get fed on milk powder that's why the meat is so pale.Deer meat is called venison!!