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Hogget for in between.

A sheep in its first year is a lamb and its meat is also lamb. The meat from sheep in their second year is hogget. Older sheep meat is mutton.

Oh…, maybe not.

Generally, “hogget” and “sheep meat” are not used by consumers outside Norway, New Zealand, South Africa, Scotland, and Australia.

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BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It gets even weirder. As a New Zealander, we would never say hogget for meat for the consumer (unless you went to a 'proper butcher), Farmers/Butchers will call 1-2 y/o sheep hoggets though.

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- livus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Might depend on where you're from. I have memories of my mother getting angry "this isn't lamb it's hogget" when she tasted it.
  
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- Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Or a two-tooth 🙂
  
  I agree, I would call the meat of a two-tooth hogget, but if you wanted to buy it in the shop, well I’m not sure you could find it.
  
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Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m from Australia and I’ve never heard that one. I don’t eat lamb (or sheep. Or mutton. Or whatever.) though, so maybe I’m not the best judge.

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