Scrag end is a

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lamb and mutton Lamb and mutton, collectively sheep meat (or sheepmeat) is one of the most common meats around the world, taken from the domestic sheep, ''Ovis aries'', and generally divided into lamb, from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in thei ...

taken from the neck and common in the

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and the

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. It is a

primal cut A primal cut or cut of meat is a piece of meat Meat is animal Tissue (biology), tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and farmed other animals for meat since prehistory. The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domesti ...

separated from the carcass during

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ing.

Value

Scrag end is one of the cheaper cuts of meat, and is often used in soups and

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s. In the United States, scrag end is known as the neck. Unlike scrag end, cutlets come from the part of the neck considered best, known as the middle neck.

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