Drunken conversations

You hate to admit this but really, everybody knows.

After a night of binge-drinking, after downing that 6th tequila shot which was ordered in a rashly made decision after getting a little too high from the 2 jugs of long island tea, you might be at the local prata place. Eating that prata (egg or kosong), plaster prata, cheese prata, banana prata, paper prata, tissue prata with the curry. It may be fish curry, vegetable curry or mutton curry. Someone might be drinking kambing soup.

Somebody with a slurring speech will ask, "What is the difference between mutton and lamb?"

Somebody will say lamb is the animal and mutton is the meat.
Somebody will ask why then lambchop but no pigchop. But damn, there is chicken chop.
Somebody will say the flesh of chicken is still chicken.
Somebody will try associating beef with cow and veal with calf.
Somebody will think that lamb is from sheep and mutton is from goat.
Somebody will think that the previous somebody got it the other way round.
Somebody will remember that in some western countries they have never heard of mutton being eaten unless it's in an Indian restaurant; mutton vindaloo.
Somebody will say they are really the same but just that western restaurants call it lamb and asian restaurants call it mutton.
Somebody will finish his/her prata and start to throw up and everyone will want to go home.
Somebody will bring this topic up again the next time they have supper after a night of binge-drinking.

Let's start with lamb and sheep and goat and all the definitions.
Lamb = is a young sheep that is unweaned (still suckling) and also refers to the meat of a young sheep.
Sheep = Any of various usually horned ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis in the family Bovidae, especially the domesticated species Ovis Aries. Females are ewes, males are rams or tups (British slang) and castrated males are wethers.
Goat = Any of various hollow-horned, bearded ruminant mammals of the genus Capra, originally of mountainous areas of the Old World, especially any of the domesticated forms of Capra Hircus, Females are nanny goats, males are billy goats, young goats are kids.

So lamb and mutton?

Lamb is the flesh of a young sheep. Young refers to unweaned perhaps? But technically speaking, lifted from Pam's, it is the flesh of a sheep less than 1 year old. Mutton is when the flesh is from a sheep that is more than 2 years old. The inbetweener is called hogget. It's not so strict elsewhere in the world, cause anything that's not lamb and comes from sheep is mutton.

Things get a little complicated when it's got to do with goats. In the region (South Asia, South-east Asia and East Asia), the flesh of the goat is referred to as mutton and from sheep is lamb. Kind of. It's actually goat meat. There's is no special name for goat meat. There is a special name for the foetus of a sheep that is eaten by some Indians with a strong stomach. It's called kutti pi and was featured in National Geographic. There is an optimal time when the kutti pi is just right. When the flesh is sweet and tender, the bones are still soft and there isn't too much hair.

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