@Naf,
Yes, I agree with you totally.
Politics and theologies are a “no, no” on fórums.
Dangerous topics any place …
naf
Thanks for the guidance. I know you will understand that the question you posed in your OP was inherently political, not least when you asked if people were “worried”. It is difficult to respond to that with discussing the political background in which food shortages might well occur.
John
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I know John…my fault, I only realised about it after posting. To avoid the problem why political discussion is fine in this thread but not in other threads, especially the thread is drifting to US politics.
Yes. It’s a joke, son, as Foghorn Leghorn used to say.
I travel to the UK with some regularity and lived in Yatling for a year. Still I find the discussion of food focusing on the UK rather than the usual US leaning to be fascinating. So given that political discussion has a specific sandbox, and recognizing there may be some links there to stay in hand, I’d be interested in foods that might be affected by Brexit. @Harters identified Italian apples, Spanish tomatoes, and Polish blueberries. Irish butter comes to mind for me.
What British foods might be in short supply or expensive in the EU post-Brexit?
Favorite or regular recipes you might have to modify in order to accommodate?
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Lamb is far and away my favorite meat, always has been, even when I was a kid (pun sort of intended I guess) and yes I enjoy the gaminess. Selfishly I’ve always felt lucky that lamb ( like goat) was not very popular in the United States, because that has always meant that it was the meat you could buy in the supermarket that was the least likely to be factory or feedlot farmed, or treated with antiobiotics. It 's just not a big enough US market to bother. It’s also cheaper than beef.
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Lamb is one of my favorites too, but something I never had till adulthood.
It was not present anywhere in the Beaver Cleaver era of my youth, store or restaurant.
I had a gyro in Chicago during a concert trip and was hooked. 
That summary is spot on as we have a small lamb ranch here outside of Ashland providing us local lambs.
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Similar to you I have loved lambchop since my childhood, as the matter of fact here is one of my earliest memories!!!
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I am too old to have grown up with Sesame Street, but absolutely grew up loving Shari Lewis and Lambchop when they were on Captain Kangaroo and her own show!
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Lamb & mutton is the meat most commonly eaten in the house. The degree of flavour it has really depends on how it’s been raised (and how long it’s hung for after slaughter). I won’t buy New Zealand lamb as I find it very bland. In fact, I buy most lamb from farmers markets or online from farmers in northwest England, or North Wales. That pretty much guarantees that these will be hill sheep, so more flavoured than sheep that have a comparitively easier life on the flat lowlands.
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This is te very reason I love it. I find much flavor depends on how young they kill. NZ and many areas of France "harvest’ when very young. (We were in Espelette for a lamb market and the animals were very tiny,) I can buy local California ranch lamb but it is from a much larger animal and too strong for me. Different tastes.
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Our secondary grocery (Safeway vice our primary Giant) now stocks Coastal Cheddar. Going to stock up a bit this week and use it for mac & cheese.
I have it in mind that this was the cheese that fellow HO LindaWhit introduced me to. It is not particular common in the UK and, if memory serves, was originally created with the intent of export to North America. It isnt stocked by either of the supermarkets that we use in normal times (Sainsbury & Waitrose), nor by Ocado, the online only supermarker we’ve also used durign Covid times
The producers, Ford Farm, make another cheddar which holds PDO status as a “West Country Farmhouse Cheddar”. I assume Coastal doesnt meet the general requirements for the PDO.
By the by, I think you’ll lose something of Coastal’s appeal if you cook with it. Much of the marketing seems to be about the crystals that develop in the cheese, giving it a sort of crunchy texture
I’ll work some into appetizers before dinner. Thank you for the heads up.
I’m having cravings for a number of casseroles including mac & cheese.
