My favorite Indian buffet serves it in a curry every once and while and when it’s available, it’s all I eat during that visit. I love it. For the most part I find it tastes pretty close to beef. Couple of Indian buddies from work buy a whole goat to split from a local farm, already slaughtered and packaged for the freezer.

I've eaten a lot of cabrito, a fair amount of Indian and Pakistani goat dishes, and a few Greek and Iranian/Persian goat dishes. I like it.

One time at a really fancy Indian place in Houston I had a goat brain curry.

The World Championship Barbeque Goat Cookoff is held in Brady, Texas on Labor Day Weekend every year. Good times!

I have had smoked/BBQed goat twice. It was a lot like lamb, but more gamer. I would eat it again, but wouldn't seek it out.

I do love good mutten though. Western Kentucky, Owensboro to be exact is the place to be.


ARman

Goat is just like any meat normally eaten. If you were raised on it, then you like it. If not, the smell may put you off.

There was a party where a subset of people wanted goat in some dish. My wife offered to cook it because she can prepare it so that the goat smell goes away. They didn't want her to get rid of the smell, that's what they wanted.

Same with lamb, I like to eat lamb but I prefer not to taste lamb and I don't even want it covered up with that mint sauce. My wife has relatives in New Zealand where lamb is a staple and they cook it with the smell.

I suppose for those who weren't raised on beef, they are also put off by the smell.

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I do love good mutten though. Western Kentucky, Owensboro to be exact is the place to be.

MoonLite Bar-B-Q! "When Only The Best Will Do"

Goat meat = yum. Goat milk makes excellent cheese. Very high fat content.

Raising goats, on the other hand, can be less than fun. Billys are a real pain in the ass and in rut, uncontrollable. All, male or female, are escape artists.

Went thru 2 seasons raising Nubians, never again.

My prior office was located next to a muslin school. A handful of times per year the school held events where they barbecued goat. The grill was located in the grassy area between our buildings. The horrible, disgusting smell eventually wafted into our building. It was nasty -- gag a maggot nasty. After years of enduring that odor, I don't care if I see another goat in my life again.

I know I have had it but cant remember where, except for Bockwurst many times in Germany

Goat cheese is yummo too

Years ago, think 1950's, my grandfather used to barbeque a young goat every summer. it was pretty good, but a little stringy in texture. He was super concerned about ANY hair getting on the meat. He claimed it would cause it to smell if even a few hairs got caught in the process.

Love it in Indian or Thai style goods! I've had it in a mexican style dishes as well and enjoyed it.

My grandfather raised goats when I was a kid. Mostly black folks would come buy them for slaughter. Being around pasture-raised goats cured me from ever really wanting to eat one. I would if presented, but wouldn't seek it out.

North African or Caribbean style curried goat is great. Served with some fried plantains and rice and peas

I’m hungry

Friend has a flower growing operation and has hard working Mexican immigrants legal here. They cooked a goat and it was delicious.

Birria!

Stew or taco, in a heartbeat! Love that stuff!!! Saturday late morning/early afternoon hangover cure. Some dried chills, dried cilantro...

Part of the blessing / curse of working in the district that I'm in is there's a huge Mexican population. Small "mom & pop" restaurants all over. You just have to figure out who does what the best.
Shrimp tacos? It's one of these three joints.
Pastor? You got to go to these two.
Birria? These two spots.

Wonder if there’s a way to Al Pastor goat for tacos? Goat cheese = Feta, yes?

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Wonder if there’s a way to Al Pastor goat for tacos? Goat cheese = Feta, yes?

I don't see why not.
Layer it up on a spit like Al Pastor-
Meat
Onions
Pineapple
Spices
Meat
Onions
Pineapple
Spices
Lather,rinse, repeat.

Slow roast.
Eat.

It's the same thing for Gyros, just lamb vs goat.

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Wonder if there’s a way to Al Pastor goat for tacos? Goat cheese = Feta, yes?

In one sense, "real" feta actually has to be made in a certain region of Greece from 70-100% sheep's milk (with any remainder being goat's milk) to qualify as feta.

This is according to PDO, the European regulations that only allow certain traditional food names to be used on a product if the product is actually produced in the traditional geographical area according to traditional methods.

Of course, PDO has no legal force in the US. A lot of the "feta" sold here is made in the US with cow milk and bears only a passing resemblance to actual feta (kind of like the Kraft "parmesan" in the green can).

Either way, part of the feta production process is aging in brine (saltwater) which lets the cheese ferment and become tart, and also makes it fairly salty. It is a very different cheese from most of the goat cheese sold in the US.

Goats will thrive on feedstock that cattle would starve on. If those are the available groceries that’s what you eat.

I used to work with the guy who co-owns (with his wife) the Celebrity Dairy in North Carolina.

He left software development to start the goat farm, bread & breakfast inn, and goat cheese business.