I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse-lasagne!
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Best joke so far in this thread. Well played, well played.Deadlock Radium said:I feel this isunappropriate:
OT: I don't have a problem with eating horse, but when I buy beef I expect beef. However I doubt this would have been as big if they had actually used pork, chicken or lamb.
You win this thread, although there has been a lot of horsing around and we should all get of our high horses and stop beating this dead horse, this jokes has been ridden into the ground already.Me55enger said:
This all the way. I, and no one I know, have been particularly bothered about the fact that it's horse. There's no quality control there, it could have been on any sort of medicine, had any sort of disease. The most suitable analogy I can think of is between buying a burger to eat or finding one at the side of the road. They might be pretty much identical, but you wouldn't just pick up and eat found burger because you don't know who had it, where it's been or why it was left there.Crenelate said:
Naturally I blame the French. If we named meat after what it came from there'd be no problem. But then the French came over with their boeuf and porc, and now we have beef and pork, which look and sound nothing like cow and pig. It's all the fault of the French.
Luckily I dodged the bullet, I checked the date on the lasagnes in my freezer. And they're off!
As with most posters of this thread, I'm not against horse meat being eaten. But the horse meat in this case is unexpected horse meat that could have come from anywhere. As far as I'm concerned, any meat with an unknown source is a cause for concern. And naturally, false advertising is a terrible thing to do and I would think it reasonable for some kind of legal action to take place.
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It's things like this that drive me away from my English background and towards my French one. People in this country are just so silly. They don't worry that cancerous chemicals could have been used in those meats, it's just that it's from a horse that freaks people out.
It's amazing how much more you find in French supermarkets that you never would in English ones.
For me, the whole horse meat thing doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's all just meat, and I've always been one for trying as many different meats as possible. The whole taboo on eating horse meat here is, in my opinion, stupid. No, what actually bothers me is the mislabeling - if you have horse meat in your meals, bloody say so.
Did you see the shitstorm over when they supplied halal beef (I think it was beef anyway) to prisons, and it actually turned out to have pork in it. I do think the mislabeling does have something to do with it.Baron von Blitztank said:
OT: yes the British have a differant relationship with horses than, say, the French, because we've historically used horses more closely with us than them, however, I do think the outrage is justified, because, beyond anything else, this is just false advertising.
I think personally the bigger problem is there is obviously some dodgy companies with shady business practices going on in the food supply chain, the company I work for which has nothing to do with food or anything as serious (Its a plumbing and heating merchant) can track any and every item we sell back to the original supplier almost instantly. (The most it would take is a minute or two ) We need to do this sometimes because we get quality or safety issues with items from time to time so we need to be able to deal with it and the supplier quickly.PureChaos said:
These food companies claim they can't do that which frankly is just not good enough especially when they are supplying peoples food.
I've eaten wild boar burger too. I really liked it, it was like beef but juicier and tastier. Wonder where they get it from though, AFAIK we don't have any wild boar in Britain.sky14kemea said:
Wait this is the horse meat story I had heard about? I thought that the meat was contaminated or something, not just switched out for a different kind of meat. I've had horse burgers before and thought it was delicious. The only problem I see here is false advertising, but beyond that it is kind of ridiculous.
