US to lift lamb import ban

[Agrivator]

And why don't we just put a Union Flag on it and call it British Beltex Lamb.

In fact, I have just patented the term, but am willing to sell the rights...............

Just to add: We should call it 'British Beltex Lamb'' and put a Union Flag on one side, and a photo of Boris on the other.

Boris has just flown back from meeting the President in the White House, on a plane renamed ''Hair Force One''.

And the only reason why Welsh lamb has any credentials is that for years, in a TV soap watched by billions of folk five times weekly, Fred Elliot had a prominent poster in his butcher's shop advertising Welsh Lamb.

 

[Agrivator]

HOW DARE YOU CALL IT BRITISH WHISKY!!!!
Whisky is from Scotland and only Scotland!!!
Whiskey is from Ireland






Slainte!!!

There are whisky distilleries in both England and Wales.

 

[Muck Spreader]

Phil Stoker from the NSA was saying this morning, any exports to the US will be years away and mostly in the from of genetics.

 

[Henery]

Why would the vastly superior Welsh lamb brand not seek to capitalise on their image of green hills?

ever tried to explain to Americans where Wales is ? but they all know about England / Britain….
Probably best to exclude Welsh lamb ..save confusion for our colonial cousins

 

[Dead Rabbits]

But do the yanks know where Wales is? They might say, never mind that welsh stuff, we can buy British now.
A bit like when they say "New Zealand, what part of Australia is New Zealand"

One of my favorite lines

 

[Canada Farmer]

One of my favorite lines

Eh, thats below the belt???
Imagine if we said that Americans are just like Californians???

 

[Canada Farmer]

There are whisky distilleries in both England and Wales.

I would never consider either, if I'm spending my hard earned cash I'll get the real thing, at least aged 7 years, single malt and distilled and bottled in Scotland!!!

 

[Canada Farmer]

That's where the strong branding comes in. We'll just tell the yanks it's near to Ireland, they'll like that.

Isn't New Zealand that wee island just to the south east of Australia, just off the Tasmanian coast?

Eh, is there not a bridge or tunnel to link the two???

 

[abitdaft]

We can't go complaining about the carbon footprint of importing from Australia or NZ if we go and send lamb to the USA.

Other than that it's great news.

Is it the carbon footprint we actually complain about?

 

[Smudge]

I don't know whether the 'average' American knows where Wales is, but those who descend from either England, Wales or Scotland are often very passionate about the fact, and to not capitalise on that would be extremely short sighted.

 

[neilo]

Phil Stoker from the NSA was saying this morning, any exports to the US will be years away and mostly in the from of genetics.

That would certainly be a good start. Semen export to the US is possible now, but the restrictions imposed exclude all but the most persistent of breeders.

 

[Agrivator]

I would never consider either, if I'm spending my hard earned cash I'll get the real thing, at least aged 7 years, single malt and distilled and bottled in Scotland!!!

Why waste money on malt whiskies when most folk can't distinguish them from Whyte and Mackay's blended grain whisky. In fact, if I had a pub, I would buy a few bottles of different expensive malt whiskies ( Glemorangie and Glenfiddich etc) and just top them up with it. And not even a Canadian connoisseur would know the difference.

PS. One of the best accompaniments with British Lamb is red Currant Jelly. Retailers should give a free jar with each purchase.

 

[Canada Farmer]

Why waste money on malt whiskies when most folk can't distinguish them from Whyte and Mackay's blended grain whisky. In fact, if I had a pub, I would buy a few bottles of different expensive malt whiskies ( Glemorangie and Glenfiddich etc) and just top them up with it. And not even a Canadian connoisseur would know the difference.

PS. One of the best accompaniments with British Lamb is red Currant Jelly. Retailers should give a free jar with each purchase.

I think you might underestimate the sophistication of the North American palate...
As for differentiating between various types and blends of whiskys , you make that out to be like a drinking challenge.....







I'll take that up with you if that is your intent should I ever get to your part on the edge of Europe...

 

[Henarar]

I think you might underestimate the sophistication of the North American palate...
As for differentiating between various types and blends of whiskys , you make that out to be like a drinking challenge.....







I'll take that up with you if that is your intent should I ever get to your part on the edge of Europe...

We like living on the edge

 

[Ysgythan]

They’ll want all chops and legs

 

[Henarar]

They’ll want all chops and legs

shoulder is best anyway

 

[Ysgythan]

shoulder is best anyway

Totally agree

 

[Agrivator]

I think you might underestimate the sophistication of the North American palate...
As for differentiating between various types and blends of whiskys , you make that out to be like a drinking challenge.....

I'll take that up with you if that is your intent should I ever get to your part on the edge of Europe...

When there's thick fog in the English Channel, it's Europe that's cut off.

And what is the plural of whisky - whiskies or whiskys?

 

[farmerm]

You are absolutely correct in that the average American will not have a clue what or where Wales is, they might think it is an island off the UK.

The important factor is to pool resources and go into the high end meat traders. The budget needed to get this market started will be significant and will require levy money from all the nations.
After all it will benefit all sheep farmers if we can sell a few hundred tons.

10% of Americans have never left the state in which they where born!
Those would probably struggle to identify California on a map let alone Wales

 

[mwj]

They’ll want all chops and legs

Your market effort should be to our huge ethnic market. They are people that would gladly eat sheep meat every day if it was available. The ''average'' American would eat chops and some leg, and shun the remainder, which contains the most profit.