Why many cultures cook baby sheep in the spring
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Date: 2024-03-29
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binyaminkup2967
Reading through your comments and all i can think of is how amazing you can actually be at Sheparding a community. Like you wokt be a Rabbi, a pastor or a Sheich but i would love there to be a community who is guided by people like you.
Personally i am a religious zionost jew. I keep all the commandments, fight in the IDF and overall am just another dude. I really emjoy your content, mostly the cooking but i think your mind is a healthy one amd i emjoy listing to its thoughts. Even the ones that disagree with my most fundamental cores. Such as your opinion on the war with Gaza, your atheist views and such.
Keep up the good work and hopefully we get to live in a world where there are more minds like yours.
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Reading through your comments and all i can think of is how amazing you can actually be at Sheparding a community. Like you wokt be a Rabbi, a pastor or a Sheich but i would love there to be a community who is guided by people like you.
Personally i am a religious zionost jew. I keep all the commandments, fight in the IDF and overall am just another dude. I really emjoy your content, mostly the cooking but i think your mind is a healthy one amd i emjoy listing to its thoughts. Even the ones that disagree with my most fundamental cores. Such as your opinion on the war with Gaza, your atheist views and such.
Keep up the good work and hopefully we get to live in a world where there are more minds like yours.
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duncanspiers8855
Speaking as someone who was brought up on a farm with a lot of sheep, I was told from early in my life that The good Lord in his wisdom and mercy giveth us lambs half of which are female and half of which are male, but the males have no commercial value. The females do have commercial value as they can produce more lambs next year and can produce milk and cheese too. To feed the males is costly, not to mention that rams (tups) get very aggressive as they mature into adolescence - as I can vouch for. Therefore, it makes perfect economic sense to re-cycle the young males in Spring when there is a glut of them. Sorry about this, but it is a reality of farming that has been known about for millenia.
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Speaking as someone who was brought up on a farm with a lot of sheep, I was told from early in my life that The good Lord in his wisdom and mercy giveth us lambs half of which are female and half of which are male, but the males have no commercial value. The females do have commercial value as they can produce more lambs next year and can produce milk and cheese too. To feed the males is costly, not to mention that rams (tups) get very aggressive as they mature into adolescence - as I can vouch for. Therefore, it makes perfect economic sense to re-cycle the young males in Spring when there is a glut of them. Sorry about this, but it is a reality of farming that has been known about for millenia.
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WinterSolstice221
Catholic here! Fairly accurate video as far as Christianity is concerned. I wanted to add that in ancient Judaism, Passover wasn't over until the lamb was eaten. In the Old Testament, God commanded the enslaved Israelites to paint their doorposts with the lamb's blood AND to eat the lamb. This is one of the many reasons why Catholics think it makes perfect sense that Christ would shed His blood for us as the sacrificial lamb (or Paschal aka Passover lamb, which is why in most languages, Easter is called some variation of Pascha) AND we are told to eat His body and drink His blood.
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Catholic here! Fairly accurate video as far as Christianity is concerned. I wanted to add that in ancient Judaism, Passover wasn't over until the lamb was eaten. In the Old Testament, God commanded the enslaved Israelites to paint their doorposts with the lamb's blood AND to eat the lamb. This is one of the many reasons why Catholics think it makes perfect sense that Christ would shed His blood for us as the sacrificial lamb (or Paschal aka Passover lamb, which is why in most languages, Easter is called some variation of Pascha) AND we are told to eat His body and drink His blood.
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darthdiculous6511
Many ancient religious dietary prescriptions are based on food poisoning. As you mentioned the Autumn meat stored for winter would be going bad by early spring, so they made a rule so people would eat it all up before Lent. Similar prohibitions against shellfish and pork in Jewish and Muslim faiths were clearly intended to prevent foodborne illness or parasites. But of course ancient people had no idea why food would make you sick. So they ascribed it to Gods disapproval. And so religious rules about what food you could eat and when were made.
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Many ancient religious dietary prescriptions are based on food poisoning. As you mentioned the Autumn meat stored for winter would be going bad by early spring, so they made a rule so people would eat it all up before Lent. Similar prohibitions against shellfish and pork in Jewish and Muslim faiths were clearly intended to prevent foodborne illness or parasites. But of course ancient people had no idea why food would make you sick. So they ascribed it to Gods disapproval. And so religious rules about what food you could eat and when were made.
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EUSA1776
The symbolism is astounding. Christ being the lamb, the lamb being a sacrifice which prevented the Angel of Death from killing the Jews, yet still kills the first born of Egypt. Calls back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac and God then providing the lamb. Christ is slaughtered and betrayed by his friends much as a lamb is. Christ is the Lamb and the shepherd, the servant and the king, the God and the Man, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega. Really really really complex symbology.
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The symbolism is astounding. Christ being the lamb, the lamb being a sacrifice which prevented the Angel of Death from killing the Jews, yet still kills the first born of Egypt. Calls back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac and God then providing the lamb. Christ is slaughtered and betrayed by his friends much as a lamb is. Christ is the Lamb and the shepherd, the servant and the king, the God and the Man, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega. Really really really complex symbology.
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simonrodriguez930
I have never heard of eating lamb for Easter where I com from (Chile. I'm quite curious about the fact that the not eating meat during friday here is only a Easter thing, while I have heard that Americans Catholics do it around the year. If someone in the comments can explain how came this diet rule diverged between catholics in the same continent I would be thankful (I'm not a beliver but I'm deeply curious)
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I have never heard of eating lamb for Easter where I com from (Chile. I'm quite curious about the fact that the not eating meat during friday here is only a Easter thing, while I have heard that Americans Catholics do it around the year. If someone in the comments can explain how came this diet rule diverged between catholics in the same continent I would be thankful (I'm not a beliver but I'm deeply curious)
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miavaughn2393
Dang, had no clue people ate lamb for Easter. Pretty much everyone I knew growing up and my own family eats ham for Easter. Though to be fair, I never knew any practicing Jews, and honestly very few Catholics. Mostly Protestants and Mormons in the southwest Arizona suburbs. Or nonreligious folks. This was pretty cool to learn about, I think I’d honestly very much prefer lamb to ham, find ham incredibly boring.
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Dang, had no clue people ate lamb for Easter. Pretty much everyone I knew growing up and my own family eats ham for Easter. Though to be fair, I never knew any practicing Jews, and honestly very few Catholics. Mostly Protestants and Mormons in the southwest Arizona suburbs. Or nonreligious folks. This was pretty cool to learn about, I think I’d honestly very much prefer lamb to ham, find ham incredibly boring.
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killercaos123
Pre-WW2 there was actually a good amount of lamb and goat production in USA. A holdover of the British. But during WW2 lamb was processed, canned, and shipped out for GIs to eat. So, many of those GIs came back to the states after the war REPULSED by lamb. In their head it was a horrible product. So lamb production basically tanked. And this is the theory of why lamb isn’t popular in the US anymore
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Pre-WW2 there was actually a good amount of lamb and goat production in USA. A holdover of the British. But during WW2 lamb was processed, canned, and shipped out for GIs to eat. So, many of those GIs came back to the states after the war REPULSED by lamb. In their head it was a horrible product. So lamb production basically tanked. And this is the theory of why lamb isn’t popular in the US anymore
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Y0urMisterDirty
Adam, as a Christian I appreciate the care you took in creating this video. Even though you don’t have the faith. I can tell you paid attention when you went to mass or studied it on your own time.
On an unrelated note my family does a ham every year. My grandma is Swedish. I guess it’s a southern tradition as well because my southern father ate ham on Easter as well
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Adam, as a Christian I appreciate the care you took in creating this video. Even though you don’t have the faith. I can tell you paid attention when you went to mass or studied it on your own time.
On an unrelated note my family does a ham every year. My grandma is Swedish. I guess it’s a southern tradition as well because my southern father ate ham on Easter as well
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whil6473
One time I was making vorschmack with a friend, and the only sheep we could find was a lamb tenderloin. Naturally we couldn't waste it, so we fried and basted it like a steak, with butter, pepper, garlic, and thyme. It was one of the best things I've ever tasted, and only a tiny piece actually went into the vorschmack (which turned out great as well) the rest was eaten as is.
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One time I was making vorschmack with a friend, and the only sheep we could find was a lamb tenderloin. Naturally we couldn't waste it, so we fried and basted it like a steak, with butter, pepper, garlic, and thyme. It was one of the best things I've ever tasted, and only a tiny piece actually went into the vorschmack (which turned out great as well) the rest was eaten as is.
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krankarvolund7771
Well, as much as I'm relieved that all my family had abandonned any religious tradition, I guess the Easter's lamb is one that I regret. I love lamb and I would have loved growing up to eat one every year XD
Well, we did some Easter's lamb, but it was more of an accident, if we had a family reunion around Easter, why not a lamb instead of chicken
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Well, as much as I'm relieved that all my family had abandonned any religious tradition, I guess the Easter's lamb is one that I regret. I love lamb and I would have loved growing up to eat one every year XD
Well, we did some Easter's lamb, but it was more of an accident, if we had a family reunion around Easter, why not a lamb instead of chicken
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sethcarson5212
Irish Catholic here. We always did ham on Easter with colcannon and biscuits and a side of way too many deviled eggs. We're from Kansas and have a fair amount of German and Volgadeutsch in us so that makes sense. I've never had lamb\mutton; can't get it where I live. I'd love to try it though. Next year I might try to source some for the SGGs.
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Irish Catholic here. We always did ham on Easter with colcannon and biscuits and a side of way too many deviled eggs. We're from Kansas and have a fair amount of German and Volgadeutsch in us so that makes sense. I've never had lamb\mutton; can't get it where I live. I'd love to try it though. Next year I might try to source some for the SGGs.
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MilkyFudgeNuts
43 y/o non religious australian and lamb for easter has never been something I have heard of before this year when all the supermarkets had it advertised. We have always had fish on easter instead but this year it wasn't even available for purchase in my region. I'll miss you simple poached smoked cod with mashed potatoes.
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43 y/o non religious australian and lamb for easter has never been something I have heard of before this year when all the supermarkets had it advertised. We have always had fish on easter instead but this year it wasn't even available for purchase in my region. I'll miss you simple poached smoked cod with mashed potatoes.
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stotter1
Lamb for Passover That is news to this jew - never heard of a Passover dinner with lamb (and I went to a fairly religious school, also. the image you used of the Seder plate with that bone - is usually whatever bone you have around, and is supposed to represent the strong arm of god that freed the Israelites from enslavement.
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Lamb for Passover That is news to this jew - never heard of a Passover dinner with lamb (and I went to a fairly religious school, also. the image you used of the Seder plate with that bone - is usually whatever bone you have around, and is supposed to represent the strong arm of god that freed the Israelites from enslavement.
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krankarvolund7771
Also the firstborn of cattle. Nobody cares for the cattle
I mean, when I've read the Exodus story, by the time we reach that part, God killed all of Egypt's cattle two or three times already. So it's less that we don't care, it's more that we don't understand how the Egyptians had any cattle left to be killed XD
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Also the firstborn of cattle. Nobody cares for the cattle
I mean, when I've read the Exodus story, by the time we reach that part, God killed all of Egypt's cattle two or three times already. So it's less that we don't care, it's more that we don't understand how the Egyptians had any cattle left to be killed XD
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stevenreckling203
I didn't know that lamb was traditional on easter for some Christians but it makes sense. I know it was a passover meal component in Judaism. My family is Christian and we never had lamb on easter, I'm not sure we've ever served mutton any time of the year. I wonder if It's more of a Catholic thing.
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I didn't know that lamb was traditional on easter for some Christians but it makes sense. I know it was a passover meal component in Judaism. My family is Christian and we never had lamb on easter, I'm not sure we've ever served mutton any time of the year. I wonder if It's more of a Catholic thing.
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MayankJairaj
Love the historical aspect of this, especially from a non believer as its easy to judge why things happened when they happened.
Most older religions had festivals closely alinged to harvest seasons and not the exact historical event. A lot of people get infuriated when this discussion comes up
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Love the historical aspect of this, especially from a non believer as its easy to judge why things happened when they happened.
Most older religions had festivals closely alinged to harvest seasons and not the exact historical event. A lot of people get infuriated when this discussion comes up
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aragusea
I’d also point out that people might have been eating just the male lambs, as they would have been considerably more difficult to manage once they reach maturity. I mean, they would literally start to ram everything, everybody and themselves. Quite risky for a human today, imagine 2000 years ago
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I’d also point out that people might have been eating just the male lambs, as they would have been considerably more difficult to manage once they reach maturity. I mean, they would literally start to ram everything, everybody and themselves. Quite risky for a human today, imagine 2000 years ago
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aaronstone7312
Christ truly is the Lamb of God. If it wasn't for Him, I don't know what would have come of me, but through Him, He cured my nihilistic depression. Nothing else worked, as I used to be an atheistic nihilist, blissfully ignorant of the spiritual world and the validity of Christ in every way.
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Christ truly is the Lamb of God. If it wasn't for Him, I don't know what would have come of me, but through Him, He cured my nihilistic depression. Nothing else worked, as I used to be an atheistic nihilist, blissfully ignorant of the spiritual world and the validity of Christ in every way.
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jamesdenton4797
Great video Adam. I love how you are brave enough to be yourself. I love how you juxtapose historic anthropological accuracy and your genuine happiness with others’ possession of their unique beliefs. I live within a hundred miles or so of you and I struggle to vocalize my secularism.
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Great video Adam. I love how you are brave enough to be yourself. I love how you juxtapose historic anthropological accuracy and your genuine happiness with others’ possession of their unique beliefs. I live within a hundred miles or so of you and I struggle to vocalize my secularism.
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