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Originally Posted by Two Bills
Sounds like a Shepherds Pie variant!
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It does sound a bit like shepherd’s pie, except for the tomato sauce on top. (But then, catsup is good on shepherd’s pie.) Perhaps there aren’t many shepherds in Detroit. Or sheep! The original shepherd’s pie, in the UK, was so called because it used lots of minced mutton and no beef. It was something tender to do with the meat when a sheep in the herd died. (There were many centuries when sheep in the UK were raised primarily for their wool, and eating lamb was a waste of a potential wool producer.) Mutton is tasty, if a bit sheepish in flavor. Nice in a curry. I used to see it (from New Zealand, frozen) in the grocery store when I lived in England, but I’ve never seen mutton for sale here. I suspect that a lot of it ends up in dog food.