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BBQ Mutton is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in Louisville. Smoked aged mutton (sheep) with a vinegar-and-pepper dipping sauce and white bread. Start with where to eat BBQ Mutton in Louisville.
Smoked aged mutton (sheep) with a vinegar-and-pepper dipping sauce and white bread. The western Kentucky BBQ tradition centred in Owensboro, with Louisville echoes on a handful of barbecue menus.
Western Kentucky's barbecue tradition centres on mutton rather than pork, a distinction that goes back to 19th-century immigrant farmers in the Owensboro region who raised sheep for wool and ate the older mutton at community gatherings. The smoked mutton is served chopped or sliced with a thin vinegar-and-black-pepper dipping sauce. The dish is most reliably found west in Owensboro at Moonlite Bar-B-Q and Old Hickory; in Louisville the tradition is now rare on regular menus. The Owensboro Bar-B-Q Festival celebrates mutton each May.
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