Most supermarket meat is choice. Game is the meat of wild animals and birds, including buffalo, deer, rabbit, quail, partridge, pheasant, and others. Game tends to have a distinct taste and to be low in fat. Lamb, the meat of sheep under one year of age, is tender and mild tasting. Mutton, the meat of adult sheep, is dark red and has a distinct flavor.
Poultry is the meat of chicken, turkey, duck, and goose.
Poultry is graded as A or B, with A being meatier and more attractive. Veal, the meat of calves two to twelve weeks old, is tender and mild tasting. Fresh meat can be cut and trimmed and wrapped on the spot by a butcher. Specific cuts of meat come pre-packaged in sealed polyvinyl chloride film with label affixed. Whole or cut-up poultry come prepackaged and labeled.