Early this week, we had a Biryani lunch at office. While everyone was enjoying the rare delicacy, one asked what type of meat was in it. The person who prepared the meal said it’s ‘goat meat’. For a moment I thought he might not aware of what ‘goat meat’ is called. But to my astonishment, everyone kept calling it by the same name.
Out of curiosity, I said ‘back home we call it mutton’. Then only I got the answer. Mutton is actually the meat from mature sheep; not from goat. Then where was the confusion? Apparently, the word ‘mutton’ is used to describe goat meat in our part of the world. So, our mutton Biryani and mutton Kottu are not quite what we mean for people outside the region.
