US beef is filled full of so much crap these days it tastes like chicken... which tastes like the cardboard packaging it is sold in. We always comment on it when we return from outside the country.
If you get some organic beef and organic chicken you will taste a big difference. Try bison as well if you want more flavor.
As for horse.... I won't knowingly eat it. Or dog.... to each their own I suppose.

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If you ever get the chance, do. If it's done properly it's nice. People angsting over it are amusing. :)

Try costco beef. I had the same thought.. but corrected it with aforementioned.

In some countries you are most likely getting grass fed beef which tastes really good compared to regular US beef.
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OT - but I have had lamb sold as goat before - fortunately I love them both.

wow, I like both as well, but they taste quite different!

Which one is gamier?

while it started a few years back, my biggest 'beef' with US beef was when they were allowed to use carbon monoxide to make the beef more red. in the package, it looks very fresh, but you get it home and cut it, only to discover that it's only red on the outside, and brown (sometimes very brown) on the inside.

i remember back in late 2008, it seemed i was taking every other meat purchase back to the store, showing them the vivid red exterior and the dingy brown center.

It was in an Indian restaurant. I wanted to have goat curry. They assumed (I think so it is me making the assumption really) that they thought with all the spice it would not be noticed if lamb was used. Lamb is a much sweeter meat. Being a Brit who loves lamb, I noticed immediately even above the Tikka Masala sauce.

Goat is gamier, but when cooked right, not in a bad way. It is much different in taste than lamb however, even mutton. There is also a particular smell to goat that lamb does not emit, and really once you have smelled it, you know it!

Interesting what the word mutton means in various places. I always thought it should be sheep but in some places it's also goat (or seemingly, lamb).

I do remember going to Egypt and being asked whether I wanted chicken or meat moussaka. When asked what meat it was, the reply was "meat!" Camel, horse, donkey, beef, goat, mutton, Nile crocodile (nah, tastes like chicken).?


This method is probably better for the consumer than the old way: nitrites.

mutton is usually the term for older sheep (lamb).

I read somewhere recently that due to grain prices going up exponentially, US cattle were being fed gummy bears and other candy/chocolate products...

actually, nitrite is for processed meats, like deli meat and hot dogs. i was talking about "fresh" meat.

This seems to be impacting Five Guys meat now, the only thing that was good about Five Guys before, had last night since so few local places open on Sunday night. Bun still a soggy sponge, but the meat was also TASTELESS.