I haven't come across mutton since I was a child, and that is going back some years. We would only have had the cheaper cuts back then, either scrag end or even just neck.

Before anyone asks what scrag end it...

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Scrag - Also known as scrag end or neck end, scrag is one of the cheaper cuts of lamb, from the upper part of the neck.

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From BBC Food

Do you spin some of the wool Jillian?

Oh my favorite is Lamb Knuckle. It makes the best stew. We have a lot of lamb in the Cape but it is still more expensive than beef.

Mutton makes a better curry than lamb, and goat the best of all.

Unfortunately (for a good story) this is all rubbish, as you can see from this web page.

Pity, though: I was laughing out loud at the original article.

I suppose this means that the lady did not put her poodle in the microwave either then?

I think poodles just make people laugh no matter what. Shame because they're apparently quite clever dogs.

Back to the original story.. the question really is, who is gullible, the Japanese or all those who believed the story? Turns out- NOT the Japanese

Jillian, don't let this put you off getting one of your sheep 'trimmed', that I just have to see. If you can give a pink rinse so much the better.

oh I'm not! God knows what I'm going to have to promise a big, burly shearer to get him to do a poodle hairdo but it will happen.

Goats. We have them too although not in the same numbers of sheep. This is all just stuff remembered from what I've read in ag papers but I think Malaysia/Taiwan and Singapore (??) take over 40% of the goat (carcass and live) exports from Australia. THe US is another huge market for us. In the last ten years or so Aust. is trying to break into the middle eastern market but much of that is supplied by those countries themselves. As little as ten years ago people would get shooters in to cull feral goats because of feed competition with domestic stock but now it's a big industry and was well worth us diversifying into. Okay, so they stink. No doubt. But they have a lot more character than sheep.

The Japanese victims of this swindle had put up pictures of their new 'dogs' all over their walls. Now they realise that all they have got is flock wallpaper

Boom boom!

The total number of victims will never be known. They tried to count them but kept falling asleep.

Oh, that's awful, stop it!!

All these puns are making me wooly headed.

One of these Japanese women should have known better as she was duped before when an Agency charged her £5000-00 to arrange her marriage to a well known film star. Photographs of the wedding show her holding her new husband which was a bird with all its feathers cut off.
The marriage certificate named it as shawn canary

Aaaaagh!

Well here it is! It probably would have looked better with a different breed but we had to go with what we had. Couldn't do anything about a pink rinse, Sue, sorry, but there's issues with contamination and all that which would have been to big a hassle.

version of the sheep poodle

And meet Watty - the man silly enough to do it for us.

The barber

I guess you gave him an opportunity to shine! Did you tell him he was going to be famous online?

You best tell Watty not to give up the day job, somehow I don't think he has much of a future in a poodle parlour!

I would imagine it was hard to keep the camera from shaking; the tears are running down my face here so heaven only knows what it was like on the station. That poor sheep will probably have a complex for life.

Oh, and Watty looks like a bit of 'all right'.

Move over Sue. I was just thinking the same. Maybe it's just a hobby, and really he is rich and away a lot, the ideal bloke I reckon. Very nice too.

Thanks Copago. How much did you get for your sheep/poodle. I hope at least $600.

No such luck About $15 worth of wool and back out in the paddock he went.

A bit of alright? Oh ... I. Hadn't. Noticed. *innocent look*