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PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

I hate the smell of lamb, and I find there is not much meat for the price paid when you get lamb served.

Pyongshin Sangja · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!

saw6436 · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Daejeon, ROK

I would kill somebody's grandmother for a leg of lamb right now.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Anyone know where to get some seal or caribou?

Vancouver · Joined: 12 Dec 2006

Matman · Joined: 02 Jun 2006

White people don't eat dogs because they see them as pets and working animals so they have a sentimental attachment to them. Koreans don't have any sentimental attachment to sheep (hopefully). As for it being western, it's more widely eaten in the middle east and Muslim countries. The bad smell (I thing it smells nice but anyway...) could be masked by marinading it like Koreans do with other meats.

I think the reason is just that Koreans wouldn't be sure what to do with it. It isn't in any of their recipe books. It just needs to be packaged and marketed well. Package it with a label "makes a great bulgogi alternative" with some cooking instructions and pictures and the Koreans would love it.

Donkey Beer · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

Koreans don't like lamb because it won't taste good if you smear gochujeong all over it.

Greekfreak · Joined: 25 May 2003

Make no mistake, the smell of lamb puts a lot of westerners off, too. My wife can't stand it, but too many Greek Easters have made vegetarianism an impossibility in my books.

jvalmer · Joined: 06 Jun 2003

I've seen the odd restaurant that had lamb on the menu, or at least I think it's the word for lamb. Is 염소 the word for lamb???

anyway · Joined: 22 Oct 2005

They don't eat it because that would be like cannibalism.

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

Zaria32 · Joined: 04 Dec 2007

Actually the French don't eat much horse anymore.

I think Koreans don't eat much lamb for the same reason that not much goat is eaten in the US...although goat is delish.

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

KiteOperations · Joined: 09 Jul 2005

im not sure but lamb has seen so rare in korea.
lamb meat sounds so exotic to koreans.
and i guess they wouldn't fit to breed in korean environment.
(75% of korean peninsular is mountainious)
isn;t it related quite to nomadic culture and full green ground?
anyway im told lamb smels and tastes like dog. lol.

sunnyvale · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Location: Korea

MBC probably ran a program warning Koreans about Hoof and Mouth disease back in the day.... I imagine it's probably illegal here now.