"Denny Wheeler" wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:29:19 -0600, "Nunya Bidnits"
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published in 1961, says that he had beef[probably mutton],

Mutton isn't beef, its lamb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutton

I suspect the OP left out 'not beef, but' in the middle there.

And--just to add to the pickiness--mutton isn't lamb. Mutton is meat
from a mature sheep.

-denny-


I'm well aware that mutton is meat from mature sheep. I mean "possibly or
probably mutton"

Kent