Saturday, April 3, 2010

Can you say YUMMY?!?

Need some help with this one? Well, we'd be happy to interpret. Its for the "Eat Local Goat (Meat) Promotion" and its very exciting!
We say Goat (Meat) because here we don't have words like beef but instead say cow meat. Isn't that nice? Well, its really only true in a technical sense. That is how the rules work but its not how people talk. You should say, "I'd like some chicken meat." But really you just say "chicken" and people get the "meat" from the context (since you're standing in front of a ton of dead chickens).

Same can go for fish meat but not for pig meat since none of my neighbors would dare touch it! Its kind of bad that we have extra words added into English. Think of it: beef, pork, mutton. All extra vocabulary words you needed to learn. You'd never say you wanted to eat cow, pig, or goat (but I know you would just say lamb, fish, or chicken). Language is a tricky thing!

At any rate, all this is just to say that eating GOAT MEAT is the healthy choice. Especially if its local goat meat, right? No green house gases from trucking in goats from Canada or somewhere. And goats just eat things like tin cans and garbage (I learned this from Bugs Bunny cartoons).

Go back up and notice the fact breakdown above: Goat has only 2.6 grams of fat, whereas lamb (bebiri) has 8.1, beef (lembu) has 7.9, and ayam (chicken) 6.3. Nothing is healthier than good, local goat. And just so you know ... I am not even kidding. Tender goat in a spicy curry is worth a long wait. And find a big ole goat laid out on a spit and slow roasted over charcoal, you won't be in the steak line that is for sure.

In conclusion, you should eat more local goat. Its tasty and low in fat. Also, I am happy that around here we just take the word 'meat' and then say what kind it is. Not so much vocab to memorize.

2 comments:

Richie said...

Is there extra vocab to memorize in other areas that are simpler in English?

Richie said...

Is there extra vocab to memorize in other areas that are simpler in English?