I was working out around Laredo while just out of college and went across the border to get a steak dinner as I heard they were pretty cheap there. The place looked a little dirty on the floor and a little dingy, but hey, this was Old Mexico we are talking about.
As I was eating my steak dinner an old pickup filled with some kind of meat pulled up in front of the resturaunt. They took out what looked like a dirty wheel barrow and pitchfork and started loading it with the meat in it. I was watching intently between each bite to see what they were doing.
As he rounded the turn and tried to come through the front door, the wheel barrow hit the threshhold, a piece of meat slid off the top of the pile and landed at my feet with an abrupt goat sound eyes looking up and the little tounge hanging out betweent the teeth. It was a hot day and the flies were all over it right after it hit the ground. They just picked the young skinned goat up with the pitchfork and threw it back on the wheel barrow and took it to the back of the resturaunt.
Needless to say, I have a lot more respect about the cost of food here in the U.S. and the way it is handled (except for that pork loin).
Goats can feed a family without refrigerators pretty efficiently.
You have to have a pretty big family if you are going to share a cow/steer if you don't have a refrigerator.
Maybe that is why it is eaten so much in the third world.
There was an old man named Drew
He dreamed his goat was eating his shoe.
He woke up in the night
With a terrible fright,
To find out that it was true.
