WIN with National Lamb Day!
Posted on Monday, 9 February 2026
CELEBRATE AND WIN!
National Lamb Day is coming up on Sunday 15 February.
To celebrate, we’re challenging you to name the cuts of lamb.
Simply print the entry form (linked below) and match the cuts to the correct part of the sheep.
Scan or photograph your completed entry form, send it to comp@anzcofoods.com by Sunday 15 February. If you've got them all right, you'll go in the draw to win an ANZCO prize pack!
We’ll announce the winner on Monday 16 February.
THE HISTORY
National Lamb Day is celebrated on 15 February to commemorate the day in 1882 when the first shipment of frozen sheep meat left from New Zealand aboard the Dunedin, captained by John Whitson and bound for London.
The shipment was organised by two entrepreneurs, William Davidson and Thomas Brydone, and left New Zealand on 15 February from Port Chalmers in Otago.
William Davidson was a British-based general manager of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, whose landholdings in the two countries exceeded one million hectares. Davidson had taken an interest in refrigerated experiments, which had proved the concept, if not yet the economic viability, of shipping frozen meat around the globe.
That historic journey of around 5,000 carcasses (only one of which needed to be condemned!) was the beginning of what is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. New Zealand farmers produce some of the best lamb and the rest of the world just can’t get enough.