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Grew up eating goat meat in India, but can't handle sheep - it has a strong flavor which I can't handle.

Even goat needs spices to make it palatable and flavorful - hence it's a big part of Middle-eastern, Carribean and Indian cuisines which use a lot of spices.

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The breed, age, sex and method of slaughter makes a difference for both sheep and goats

In South Africa lamb is part of our culture and often the most sought after meat, if you can afford it. It's used in pie, various stews, curry, samoosas, roast, braai(BBQ), grilled, fried, etc.

The innards are not forgotten either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skilpadjies

Goat meat in India comes from castrated goats. You get the stress hormones especially when the goat is slaughtered in the West. Hence you might find Halal meat perhaps more palatable

Can confirm. The best goat I ever ate was driven to the slaughter in a normal car with the people it grow up with to get stress near to zero. (Not halal, Demeter) and this meat was honestly on another level.

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