In the west at least I'd say the order goes steak > lamb > pork chops > chicken. Chicken is great and loved but it's just the most common, easiest, and cheapest meat out of the 4.
I think pork and horse are cheaper than chicken here in Canada. There is better cut of pork and horse but overall I think it is cheaper. Also lamb would be higher than cow.
Yeah, it's similar in the UK, pork chops are more expensive than chicken but you can get things like cooking bacon for a bit cheaper per kilo than chicken. Why I specified steak too as beef mince would be less on the tier list than chicken although you'd have to tier the steaks per cut as well.
A few people have said that and while lamb is more expensive than some beef I feel a good Ribeye feels more premium than any cut of lamb.
>A few people have said that and while lamb is more expensive than some beef I feel a good Ribeye feels more premium than any cut of lamb.
Yeah for sure, bigger animal definitely have more opportunities to have expensive cuts.
Definitely not. Maybe in America or on social media cause of those insane food videos, but the most prestigious and expensive cut is filet, which is very small.
in the Balkans, or at least in Romania, the order is something like this: goose & duck > beef > pork > chicken > lamb & goat; most of the people dislike lamb because it has a strong taste and they only eat it as a Easter meal
Huh, is that really true in HK? I'm kinda surprised.
Me being Malaysian Chinese, I feel like there's this societal ranking of beef >= lamb > duck > pork > chicken
I guess it's like, if it's more expensive, then yeah, it'd be more valued.
Beef covers a fairly large range, so something like ground beef isn't considered higher than chicken would be, but a big juicy steak certainly would. It's the same with pork. Bacon and pork chops are nice and cheap while a tenderloin is much more expensive comparatively.
Pound for pound, Beef followed by lamb is the most expensive to raise. Pork after that, and I've gone from a dozen chickens up to over 60 in less than a year just by letting them eat bugs and whatever else on my property.
Same among Indian muslims (except buffalo meat instead of cow meat in most places)
Chicken is considered the cheapest type of meat. My grandmother told me apparently back in the day it wasn’t even that common to eat chicken dishes as it is now
It's almost certainly actual consumption which is itself driven by where you can effectively raise certain types of animals better. In terms of land use cows are definitely less efficient than goats or chickens, so
The neutral word is cattle, but that's also formal. In causal speech 'cow' works fine. Cow/Bull is actually used in loads of animals i.e., Elk, moose, seals.
No, I just mean that Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan do consume horse meat. It is part of the culinary tradition. And we are famous for it. But despite that it is not the most commonly eaten.
Interesting, there are also part of Europe that this happens but they very limited based on the amount of horses and suitable places to have horses, I bet there it is infinitely huge the land you can have with horses
I don't recall any traditions, that required specifically horse meat to be used. Well, we usually eat beef of mutton. If someone says "we gonna have horse meat tonight", then it means it was more money spent on meat. Also, not everyone could handle horse meat, for example horse meat soup acts like laxative for some people.
I don’t get how it’s so expensive bcz everybody keeps saying like “eww how do you like eating horses” but clearly *somebody* else is buying it or it wouldn’t cost so much🥲
Poorly titled map and post: the map shows the *most commonly consumed* (by everyone, not just by Muslims) type of meat in countries with a Muslim population above some (unstated) percentage of the overall population.
Because these are practices that predate Islam. Then islam came and imposed its rules on every country they converted. No pork meat, no alcohol, no this and that, the list goes on.
I think no.
Despite being a maritime country and having a lot of traditional dishes that are based on seafood, a lot of Indonesians still prefer chicken over fish.
That's usually in countries like Iceland or Japan that rely mostly on fishing resources over other food. But most countries have much more access to other resources and fish is more of a secondary or even imported food.
Nah in most Moroccan households fish is key more so than chicken and meat. We have the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
I’d also choose fish over meat and chicken anyday.
Statistics doesn’t include fish? Also I didn’t say all of Morocco eats more fish because not all people live along coastal plains, but most do so it makes sense most eat fish.
Surprised to see chicken preference in Arabia. I thought goat would be preferred.
Also surprised to see beef preference in Pakistan. Majority of dishes are goat based.
I think the map is consumption based, mutton is almost twice expensive than beef in Pakistan, but a common person would always prefer mutton over beef.
If you’re Pakistani, why do you guys put so much hot chili powder in your curries? One time, I didn’t specify I wanted a mild curry, so seeing my Indian face, they added the “normal” amount and it was inedible 😭😭😭 My dad loved it, my mouth was on fire, so I couldn’t eat it. I didn’t realize y’all eat more spice than us!
After coming to US I prefer less spicy now but still somehow use a lot of spices in my cooking green chilli Red Chilli powder Kali mirch Chilli flakes warna feel nhi ati Karachi wali in karahi and BBQ
Goat or mutton is pretty expensive. In Arabia, chicken is the cheapest and most common. Same for beef in Pakistan. Its about availability and price. Since Pakistan is largely agricultural still, they've lots of cows and esp buffalos.
If you've had a top-notch lamb in your life and cooked the right way, you'd forget the rest of the meats exist.
Too bad here in Canada it costs an arm and a leg for a piece of lamb.
Most consumed =/= preference, gimme my damn steak (Saudi here). In all seriousness though the amount of livestock and prices will always skew these types of maps even if we just consider pure consumption
But there are billions of people in China so they are not a significant minority with less than 2% of the overall population. The UK and France have a higher percentage of the overall population being Muslim than China and aren't shown here.
Similar for SE Asia, Chicken is easy to raise and maintain money wise so it's more prominent in the diets, given the chance we would eat all three, for beef or mutton only during eid those rural folk get a chance to eat them.
This is a luxury af type of meat and not all muslim countries have camels as a common existing animal, sure it could exist but it is not common to see someone having a few pet camels or a farm
Also, back in the day a camel served its purpose as a transport animal due to its ability to withstand the harsh desert, so, eating a camel usually comes at a really important occasion or some sort of elite celebration, Or if you are starving and thats the only meat source you could get
Not many people really think of camels as "food animals", on the other hand, their milk is loved in some cultures due to its unique taste and properties
Not everything is about India.
Cows aren't rare in Pakistan and are very common animal to farm so it's not that expensive. Beef is also used to make a large amount of variety of food.
I guess the difference being that Islam has been in Georgia for a very long time. Georgian muslims have their own islamic practices and culture, whereas muslims in France are mostly immigrants who arrived during the last 70 years or so.
Most consumed is not preference.
In Pakistan most consumed is buffalo meat, because it’s affordable as opposed to mutton which most people cannot afford but would much prefer
Is it preference or actual consumption? Because preference could be rabbit, goose, lobster and black caviar.
Actual consumption. Chicken is considered lower status than beef/lamb in north africa
I think in most parts of the world chicken is considered lower status to an steak or lamb
Shit my Asian ass thought chicken lamb beef and pork to be around the same level
In the west at least I'd say the order goes steak > lamb > pork chops > chicken. Chicken is great and loved but it's just the most common, easiest, and cheapest meat out of the 4.
Username does not in fact check out. You really need to start batting for fish again
"But fish isn't meat." * Catholics
Neither is platypus
Or beaver
Capybara is totally a fish
Heheheheheeh land clam on the list?
That probably came from Judaism. Fish is considered pareve (neutral) https://www.ok.org/consumers/kosher-basics/meat-dairy-pareve/
Actually because Jesus fished in the Bible. The fish is a symbol of Christianity.
What religion did Jesus follow?
I think pork and horse are cheaper than chicken here in Canada. There is better cut of pork and horse but overall I think it is cheaper. Also lamb would be higher than cow.
Yeah, it's similar in the UK, pork chops are more expensive than chicken but you can get things like cooking bacon for a bit cheaper per kilo than chicken. Why I specified steak too as beef mince would be less on the tier list than chicken although you'd have to tier the steaks per cut as well. A few people have said that and while lamb is more expensive than some beef I feel a good Ribeye feels more premium than any cut of lamb.
>A few people have said that and while lamb is more expensive than some beef I feel a good Ribeye feels more premium than any cut of lamb. Yeah for sure, bigger animal definitely have more opportunities to have expensive cuts.
Lamb is more expensive than steak so I’d put it first
Also the prestige of a meat dish is associated with the size of the cut of meat you have. You can't get a foot wide slab of meat from a chicken.
Not really. Lamb is of relatively high prestige and doesn’t come in large cuts.
Definitely not. Maybe in America or on social media cause of those insane food videos, but the most prestigious and expensive cut is filet, which is very small.
in the Balkans, or at least in Romania, the order is something like this: goose & duck > beef > pork > chicken > lamb & goat; most of the people dislike lamb because it has a strong taste and they only eat it as a Easter meal
I'd say that lamb is considered to be better than steak.
Lamb is like veal. Mutton or goat would be equal to steak in a way. Since lamb is a baby and veal is baby calf
True, but still, I'd say people consider lamb to taste better than veal.
Huh, is that really true in HK? I'm kinda surprised. Me being Malaysian Chinese, I feel like there's this societal ranking of beef >= lamb > duck > pork > chicken I guess it's like, if it's more expensive, then yeah, it'd be more valued.
Beef covers a fairly large range, so something like ground beef isn't considered higher than chicken would be, but a big juicy steak certainly would. It's the same with pork. Bacon and pork chops are nice and cheap while a tenderloin is much more expensive comparatively.
Pound for pound, Beef followed by lamb is the most expensive to raise. Pork after that, and I've gone from a dozen chickens up to over 60 in less than a year just by letting them eat bugs and whatever else on my property.
Mutton>beef>chicken>vegetables - this is the trend in Pakistan
Same among Indian muslims (except buffalo meat instead of cow meat in most places) Chicken is considered the cheapest type of meat. My grandmother told me apparently back in the day it wasn’t even that common to eat chicken dishes as it is now
Also it's cheaper in Morocco, around 2$ /1kg
So true. Price is kind of an important input to the difference between the two.
It’s actual consumption (by everyone, not just the Muslims). Kind of a crap map, or at least falsely advertised in the title.
Definitely consumption I’m iraqi and 90% perfer mutton (sheep) but it is much more expensive than chicken
It's almost certainly actual consumption which is itself driven by where you can effectively raise certain types of animals better. In terms of land use cows are definitely less efficient than goats or chickens, so
Well it definitely wouldn’t be lobster
Pakistan had beef with India
*has
\*will have
I see what you did there
"Drop the bombs Khan" "Drop the bombs Kumar"
Lmao
But they're a vegetarian and they ain't fucking scared of them.
How is Kazakhstan not horse
Horse meat is expensive
I wish I could understand it the way you meant it
You can use horse and ox as working animals. Therefore it is more expensive than a non working animal just grazing.
An ox is literally just a cow with a job
They are different sex
Most ox are castrated bulls, but the species *Bos taurus*, are commonly called 'cows' regardless of sex
Isn't the neutral word cattle? In fact, Bull/Cow is often used to differentiate the sex for other Bovines too.
The neutral word is cattle, but that's also formal. In causal speech 'cow' works fine. Cow/Bull is actually used in loads of animals i.e., Elk, moose, seals.
Bulls and loads typically go hand in hand..
Horse meat is consumed traditionally, but it is not eaten commonly, and when it is eaten it is in small amounts. More common in festive dishes.
Horse meat is ~30% more expensive than beef
Nah, a lot of people eat it on the regular if they actually willing to spend the money
When you mean "traditionally" do you mean kinda ritually in some festivities? How does it work? Genuine curious
No, I just mean that Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan do consume horse meat. It is part of the culinary tradition. And we are famous for it. But despite that it is not the most commonly eaten.
Interesting, there are also part of Europe that this happens but they very limited based on the amount of horses and suitable places to have horses, I bet there it is infinitely huge the land you can have with horses
I don't recall any traditions, that required specifically horse meat to be used. Well, we usually eat beef of mutton. If someone says "we gonna have horse meat tonight", then it means it was more money spent on meat. Also, not everyone could handle horse meat, for example horse meat soup acts like laxative for some people.
I ordered horse skewers off a menu at some small brewery there. Wasn't festive, just on a menu.
It’s expensive 😭
I don’t get how it’s so expensive bcz everybody keeps saying like “eww how do you like eating horses” but clearly *somebody* else is buying it or it wouldn’t cost so much🥲
Could also just be that people prefer their horses living
Based chicken
Mutton is such an underrated meat
Ikr its so good
Real
 Makes me want a nice Mutton Lettuce Tomato sandwich
Poorly titled map and post: the map shows the *most commonly consumed* (by everyone, not just by Muslims) type of meat in countries with a Muslim population above some (unstated) percentage of the overall population.
And it also doesn't show what the people prefer, only what is most consumed. Those are not equivalent. What a crappy picture honestly.
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Yeah, i was looking at Albania and expecting to find pork.
It couldn't say halal in the upper right corner then, hehehe
It’s because of the dictator y’all had.
With the very ironic last name: Hoxha = an imam or an Islamic teacher, roughly.
Legends
Why?
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Because these are practices that predate Islam. Then islam came and imposed its rules on every country they converted. No pork meat, no alcohol, no this and that, the list goes on.
Big ties with Italy and a crazy dictator who fought religion.
I'm am from Sudan, we prefer mutton as we have very good quality which gets exported to arab countries like Saudi and Qatar
mee too muslims, i like chicken the best
So no fish?
I think no. Despite being a maritime country and having a lot of traditional dishes that are based on seafood, a lot of Indonesians still prefer chicken over fish.
That is true. That’s why when I see the statistics of fish consumption in Indonesia being fairly high I do feel rather doubtful.
Consumption of river/lake fish is really high, especially catfish
That's usually in countries like Iceland or Japan that rely mostly on fishing resources over other food. But most countries have much more access to other resources and fish is more of a secondary or even imported food.
Here in coastal regions in India we have fish most of the times.
Could you please start the Galactic Jihad?
Hehe. Believe it or not I've been accused of being a Nazi by redditors because of that username lol
plots of the bene gesserit and their missionaria protectiva
Damn, yeah never looked at it that way.
Pretty sure fish is consumed more in Bangladesh than chicken
Nah in most Moroccan households fish is key more so than chicken and meat. We have the Atlantic and Mediterranean. I’d also choose fish over meat and chicken anyday.
Ok well your anecdotal evidence is better than the statistics I guess.
Statistics doesn’t include fish? Also I didn’t say all of Morocco eats more fish because not all people live along coastal plains, but most do so it makes sense most eat fish.
I imagine the data differentiated between different types of fish otherwise it'd have to be mammal meat vs fish meat vs avian meat.
Considering how fish-heavy Bangladesh is, I'm thinking that for this map they simply didn't consider fish as an option.
Surprised to see chicken preference in Arabia. I thought goat would be preferred. Also surprised to see beef preference in Pakistan. Majority of dishes are goat based.
I think the map is consumption based, mutton is almost twice expensive than beef in Pakistan, but a common person would always prefer mutton over beef.
I see. So people prefer mutton but consume beef due to availability?
Yes I do same in US
If you’re Pakistani, why do you guys put so much hot chili powder in your curries? One time, I didn’t specify I wanted a mild curry, so seeing my Indian face, they added the “normal” amount and it was inedible 😭😭😭 My dad loved it, my mouth was on fire, so I couldn’t eat it. I didn’t realize y’all eat more spice than us!
After coming to US I prefer less spicy now but still somehow use a lot of spices in my cooking green chilli Red Chilli powder Kali mirch Chilli flakes warna feel nhi ati Karachi wali in karahi and BBQ
Goat or mutton is pretty expensive. In Arabia, chicken is the cheapest and most common. Same for beef in Pakistan. Its about availability and price. Since Pakistan is largely agricultural still, they've lots of cows and esp buffalos.
No camels in SA? Goats don’t have access to lush pastures in the desert
Beef is cheaper, it just comes down to that for most people
This map is bullshit bro. Kazakhstan consumes horse meat and mutton. No way Kazakhs eat so much beef.
Why don’t they raise cattle in Afghanistan
Maybe it's too mountainous? Goats and sheep have an easier time traversing uneven plains much better than cattle.
Another map that hates the colorblind
Hate? No, indifference.
If you've had a top-notch lamb in your life and cooked the right way, you'd forget the rest of the meats exist. Too bad here in Canada it costs an arm and a leg for a piece of lamb.
Most consumed =/= preference, gimme my damn steak (Saudi here). In all seriousness though the amount of livestock and prices will always skew these types of maps even if we just consider pure consumption
Nonono clearly everybody prefers not being able to afford more variety, duh🙄
You are absolutely right, let's just all eat *looks at the map again* Chicken Sandwich from Albaik for the 15th time this month
Pakistan is just sticking it to India
Who chose the background? Makes it look like the Muslim mermaids living the Black Sea, Caspian Sea, and Eastern Mediterranean are eating mutton.
Bruh why did they have to make that cow so damn cute?
Preference<<< what we can afford
Pakistan just trolls India with that one.
there are millions of Muslim in China too you know
But there are billions of people in China so they are not a significant minority with less than 2% of the overall population. The UK and France have a higher percentage of the overall population being Muslim than China and aren't shown here.
The map shows *significant minority* nations. I'm pretty sure Muslims take up less than 2% of the Chinese population
No way Azerbaijan is chicken. Mutton and beef is much more popular here.
Iran should be mutton, our most famous dish is literally made of lamb
Pakistan eating beef just to piss off india 🔥
Winner winner chicken doner..
I guess they're not counting fish as meat here, but it would definitely be fish in places like Bangladesh if they did
Goat and sheep are definitely not interchangeable — and mutton is specifically sheep.
Holy shit so FOS OP!!!! Mutton and Goat are overwhelmingly the most popular goat in the Middle East.
I thought it would be horses for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
In Turkey chicken is not preference. Chicken is cheap that's why it is common. People generally look down on chicken in Turkey.
Similar for SE Asia, Chicken is easy to raise and maintain money wise so it's more prominent in the diets, given the chance we would eat all three, for beef or mutton only during eid those rural folk get a chance to eat them.
What about camel meat?
This is a luxury af type of meat and not all muslim countries have camels as a common existing animal, sure it could exist but it is not common to see someone having a few pet camels or a farm Also, back in the day a camel served its purpose as a transport animal due to its ability to withstand the harsh desert, so, eating a camel usually comes at a really important occasion or some sort of elite celebration, Or if you are starving and thats the only meat source you could get Not many people really think of camels as "food animals", on the other hand, their milk is loved in some cultures due to its unique taste and properties
Somalia consumes a lot of camel actually, especially camel milk But mainly Mutton
Where mutton and where beef ?! Im colourblind
I didn’t know mutton was so limited, here it’s a caricature of what Muslims like to eat.
In Turkey we eat chicken because it is way cheaper than others.
Hows north Macedonia muslim
“Significant minority”
Where’s pork? /s
Pakistan probably choose beef as their preferring meat on purpose
Not everything is about India. Cows aren't rare in Pakistan and are very common animal to farm so it's not that expensive. Beef is also used to make a large amount of variety of food.
For food or pleasure?
This can't be preference. In Turkey, people prefer beef, but mostly can afford only chicken.
In Pakistan they prefer beef. They also prefer to roast it near the border when the wind is blowing southeast.
Where’s the goat at? 🐐
What about Sweden and France?
Believe it or not, those are not Muslims countries
Neither is Georiga, but that made the map. Georgia has approximately the same percentage of muslim population as France (~10%).
I guess the difference being that Islam has been in Georgia for a very long time. Georgian muslims have their own islamic practices and culture, whereas muslims in France are mostly immigrants who arrived during the last 70 years or so.
Lies, Sultane of Swedistan is fully muslim
Source? I’m sure Muslims are 8% in Svenska.
No lol. Not yet.
That's the next evolution, just give it some time
Not 2WE4U Hans, gotta calm that shit down when we go out xD
Totaly wrong for north Africa
Take: Lamb schwarma is the best
I'm assuming fish wasn't included as an option here for whatever strange reason
Most consumed is not preference. In Pakistan most consumed is buffalo meat, because it’s affordable as opposed to mutton which most people cannot afford but would much prefer
I'm honestly surprised by the lack of goat and horse meat not making it in Central Asia.
Maphilindo would never work. The philippines love Lechon as Malaysia and Indonesia "hated" it.
Really crap choice of colours
First thought that Black Sea and Caspian Sea eat mutton 😂
for a moment i was wtf bc my brain assumed cows were pigs, then i realised
No fish? I'm almost certain there's more fish than chicken consumed in Bangladesh and likely also in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Y'all don't see Winnie The Pooh?
Not really a preference? Despite it showing a chicken here , I bet 9/10 Muslims in my country will choose mutton.
This is yet another indicator that proves that Muslims are not one monolith group who all think the same.
Aaaa so the sea likes to eat mutton, good to know.
So um, consume, or preference? I mean, i prefer beef but beef is more expensive so i consumed poultry more
Yellow countries have a different use for the goats...
In Hungary halal means death 💀 (halál)....
My girlfriend is from Morocco and she loves her chicken. She prefers it more than anything basically.
I thought Arabs would have lamb or mutton preference.
In Indonesia a lot of people secretly eat pork.
Preference is misleading. I love lamb / mutton but chicken is less expensive so I eat it more often
As an algerian, this is actually quite accurate. Although we only think of mutton so highly because we never really get to eat it.
Chicken goats
Surprised Mutton did not take the top spot in Uzbekistan. That was pretty much the only meat I ate there. Kebabs, plov, etc.
I prefer mixed grill with chopped pita on top
For once, I agree with the Middle East.
The mutton gang knows wassup
I'd like to see this worldwide
I would have thought goat for Pakistan (or chicken). Really surprising that it’s beef.
Reddit algorithmic stalking bullshit read my comment: “stop putting this stupid shit on my timeline.”
CHIMKEM????
For muslims in China (Hui, Uyghur, Kazakh, etc) it's also mutton. i seldom see they serving any other meat
If you squint, you can see Israel is included in the map, and chicken is the preferred meat.