fact-checking

[dubdobdee]

i've just been asked a question that surprised me

i was in the supermarket, looking at bacon, when a neighbour hailed me (mid-40s, from the southern states)

"hullo, dubdubdee," she said: "listen, is pork lamb?"

(i wasn't sure i'd heard right so i got her to repeat the query)

Comments

[spittake.livejournal.com]

a local NPR host once seemed confused that lamb, mutton, and sheep were all the same creature.

Mutton ain't worth mutton but it's free

[koganbot]

You mean, like, the Southern States of America? If so, presumably it would be the concept "lamb" that confused her.

Re: Mutton ain't worth mutton but it's free

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes tennessee i think -- what do they call small sheeps down south?

Re: Mutton ain't worth mutton but it's free

[koganbot]

Sheeplets, perhaps. But don't sheep live in Northern climes, as if they were wide goats? (I suppose that Tennessee has mountains, though, so probably some sheep. But maybe no one there eats sheep. So sheep is what wool-exporting countries utilize to compete with cotton. I should ask Edd Hurt, who lives outside of Nashville.)