Beef in a Lamb Madras??? or rather frying steak

[deanogtv]

As the title states really, ordered the usual Lamb (not meat) Madras from the curry house in the village which we have used without any problems for 7 years.
The reason I like there Lamb Madras so much is its normally full of small around 20-25 tendure chucks of lamb prob a little bigger than a sugar cube in size. So imagine my surprise when I spoon on my madras to find 6 large, flat slabs of meat??? I proceeded to tuck in to find 1) The meat was very tuff and 2) I and the missus think it was beef. By the 3rd chuck I could not bite into it was so tough. The structure of the meat was very dense like beef.
I phoned the curry house to ask what the issue was, I was told there had been a mix up and it may have been BBQ Lamb Madras as the chuncks are bigger and tougher.

I await the "it was probably dog or cat" jokes

Has anyone else had this happen to them??

[soad]

Someone I knew was once served a rat curry. It was in Pakistan though, ages ago.

[Mobile Chicane]

It could have been mutton, or perhaps even goat meat.

In some countries the distinction between sheep meat of varying ages isn't made, unless it's obviously a small one to be cooked whole for a special meal.

The terms 'sheep' and 'goat' are also commonly interchanged.

[mr_tony]

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27047970

It's not uncommon. Beef is so much cheaper than lamb it's an easy profit maker for a restaurant.
Of course it could just have been a mistaken the kitchen.
On the other hand it sounds quite like the horse meat curry I used to get in Kazakhstan when I used to go there so it may just have been mystery meat...