Horse Meat!!!!

newmills

So a couple of years ago i'm in lake garda on holidays.
I'm in the supermarket with the baby buying nappies, baby food etc. The baby is sitting up in the trolley pointing at the jars of baby food and making the noises of the animals on the jars. Some of the italian staff are laughing at her as she makes a moo sound etc. Then she stops making sounds and i realise she is looking at a jar with a picture of a horse on it. The sales staff look ashen faced, as they realise that we are not italian, and i think it dawns on them that horse meat should not be eaten - by anyone, least alone putting it in baby food. Boardsies - have any of you eaten horse meat?

DarkJager

Nope, but there was a guy who ate horse meat with his ass and died from it. I'm sure the video is lurking around somewhere if you fancy some lulz...

javaboy

OP are you just embarrassed because your kid didn't know what sound a horse makes?

Hazys

I've eaten Kangroo meat...take that Skippy

ayapatrick

Its a traditional thing in Italy afaik to eat it! never eatin it, but shur what would be wrong with it?:D

trailerparkboy

mmmmm horse meat.

Xiney

Yup - sweeter than beef.

It's widely available in Quebec in supermarkets.

newmills

javaboy wrote: »

OP are you just embarrassed because your kid didn't know what sound a horse makes?

She knew the sound a horse made but i reckon she was so intelligent that even she knew horse meat in baby food was wrong!!... shít javaboy now she's started to read that old copy of ulysses!!!!

Xiney

It's not wrong - you just consider it so.

Sharpshooter

Almost ate it in Spain once.
I ordered steak and when it was served up it looked kinda big.I must have let it show that I thought it looked odd,because one of the people at the next table leaned over and said" You do know it's horse meat,don't you".:o
I was too embarrassed to ask the waiter to take it back, so I paid and left the restaurant saying I didn't feel well.

When I got back to where I was staying I asked about it,and was told if I wanted Beef Steak I had to specifically ask for it.
Otherwise they serve Horse Meat.
Steak was off the menu for the rest of the holiday.

GhostInTheRuins

What's the difference in eating cow and eating horse? Just different meat.

Sharpshooter

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

What's the difference in eating cow and eating horse? Just different meat.

Big difference, even the horse says neigh.

BaconZombie

Anybody know where you can get good horse meat in Dublin?

Terry

Those bastards are mostly muscle. That's all good meat. Less fat.
I've never eaten proper horse meat, but I have had horse sausages. My friend's brother in law is Dutch and quite often brings back horse sausages from the Netherlands. They're much nicer than pork sausages and have less fat.

I hope the ****ers who stole Shergar had a few good meals out of him. I'd say he would have tasted great.

donmeister

Its apparently very high in protein for all you budding bodybuilders out there!

and it tastes like rum,red rum to be more specific!

topper75

Was totally apprehensive beforehand and the image of the horse on the sign over the stall in the Catalan market seemed, well, wrong. After all, we Irish do have a special affectionate relationship with this animal.

Only tried it to please hosts, but one forkful and everything changed. Beautiful meat and I highly recommend. No reason why infants cannot eat it. My host's young daughter tucked in with us. Mind you, his wife and other daughter passed on it.

Important to point out that you don't end up eating any old show jumper or cart horse; these animals are bred especially and solely for culinary purposes.

It's beefy and succulent. Give it a shot it comes your way in N. Spain, N. Italy or S. France.

OldGoat

Have eaten a lot of horse in France, very nice it is too. A lot of the roadside service stations will make their cheaper meals using horsemeat, just look out for the word cheval on the signs for your burgers.
Nyom.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I haven't eaten it yet, but I will this next week when I am in Belgium

What is wrong with it? Same can be said about pork, beef, deer, rabbit, pigeon, duck, pheasent, squirrell, chicken, dog, cat... etc etc. I see nothing wrong with it.

OldGoat

Tyler Obnoxious Sailboat wrote: »

I haven't eaten it yet, but I will this next week when I am in Belgium

What is wrong with it? Same can be said about pork, beef, deer, rabbit, pigeon, duck, pheasent, squirrell, chicken, dog, cat... etc etc. I see nothing wrong with it.

Never tried cat but I can put a tickmark beside the rest of your list and a few others besides.
Perhaps I should bring along some goat curry to the next beers.

liah

I love horses, most of my jobs throughout my life have involved horses, and I think they are brilliant, intelligent, beautiful, wonderful animals.

..that being said, I'd probably try it, and if it was good, I'd have no trouble consuming it. Meat is meat, animals are animals.. to eat one and not at least try another is a bit hypocritical, even if the other is of a type you've come to love.

All about culture I suppose.

Amalgam

I don't have problems eating horse meat, but the town where my grandparents came from (France), the concensus was that the horses sourced for the meat were uhh, past their prime, knackers yard horses, so to speak. The local butcher had a flank hanging in the window, much like a pig, but longer, thinner ribs.

I'd often wake up to find my grandfather eating pigs brains, sliced and dipped into batter, fried in oil and served for breakfast.. horses for courses, as they say..

Professey Chin

I ate it in france.Liked it but then found out it was horse meat. Then I felt bad
I like neigh neighs, and moo moos, and cluck clucks, and oink oinks
Im becoming a vegan

Sharpshooter

Is you're surname MacDonald by any chance?

byhookorbycrook

Heavy horses ae bred for meat in places like France, the Ardennes horse for example. Wouldn't eat in myself but each to their own.

Chong

Had horse meat in Belgium last November, was beautiful meat.

3DataModem

Had it.

Loved it.

Real meaty meat. Yum.

pablomakaveli

You can eat any meat really. It's purely a psychological thing to be put off because it's a horse,dog,cat etc. People have even eaten rat meat.

Padraig Mor

There's 'Hot Horse' horse burger stands dotted around the place in Slovenia!

TPD

Concession Man: Get your piping hot horse burgers, horse fries, horse cakes and shakes. We got tongue, straight from the horse's mouth.
Leela: Hmmmmm.
Hermes Conrad: It all sounds good.
Concession Man: All our horses are 100% horse-fed for that double-horse "juiced-in" goodness.
Leela: I'll have the cholesterol-free omelet with horse-beaters.
Concession Man: And you, sir? How can I horse you?
Hermes Conrad: I'll have a horse Coke.
Concession Man: Horse Pepsi okay?
Hermes Conrad: Neeeiiiggghh.

LorraineL

If you were going in to a shop to ask for it, what would you ask for. Cow is beef, sheep is lamb/mutton, pig is pork/bacon etc. Would you go in and ask for a pound of horse??

Xiney

It would probably be Cheval (Beef comes from the French "Boeuf", Pork from "Porc", Mutton from "Mouton") but the fact of the matter is that most anglophones are so completely against eating horse meat (influenced by strong horse racing culture) that there isn't truly a word for it.


In French it's "Viande Chevaline" or simply "Cheval"

Caoimhín

In college, we convinced a particularly dumb chap from Tyrone that the meat in a kebab was from a horse.

Amalgam

it might seem like a lazy thing to just drop in a wikipedia link.. but the pictures are surprising. Horse meat eaten raw in Japan, and cool as you please.. just sitthing there, horse meat on a supermarket shelf in the Netherlands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsemeat

steo87

From the same wikipedia link above:

karta made from a section of the rectum which is smoked and boiled

Wouldn't be into that!

jester77

I've heard it's nicer than swan but harder to catch!

rabbitinlights

If you have ever eaten Salami or even pepperoni from France/Italy chances are it will contain horse meat.

Overature

does anybody know where you can get horse meat in ireland?

galwayrush

had some in France when i was kid , the meat was in a stew and quite tasty, but it was all sinews and i spent ages trying to pick the meat out from between them.

galwayrush

Overature wrote: »

does anybody know where you can get horse meat in ireland?

Lots of places if you're willing to kill a horse.

It wasn't me!

Had it, it's not bad. No moral argument against eating it, but do prefer a decent piece of beef personally. Then again, venison is king.

deecom

Eat it here all the time, can buy it in supermarkets. Its good i like it, the horse burger bar here is really good.

FruitLover

newmills wrote: »

even she knew horse meat in baby food was wrong

You're wrong.

LorraineL wrote: »

If you were going in to a shop to ask for it, what would you ask for. Would you go in and ask for a pound of horse??

Well, what else would you ask for? A pound of television?

patrickc

nicest meat ive ever had

Fajitas!

Mmmmm. Spicey horse burger.

Cunny-Funt

Nah I wouldn't eat dog meat or horse meat.

People can go and call me hypocritical if they wanna but yeas may as well stretch it to cannibalism too then.

Xiney wrote: »

It's not wrong - you just consider it so.

Thats just what the cannibals would say:pac:

punky

I've eaten raw horse meat (called basashi in Japan) a number of times. It's a delicacy in southern Japan where I live. It's not my favourite raw meat but it's not too bad. A little bit chewy.

Mossy Monk

I ate horse in Paris and it was great.

biko

Horse meat is good. Only itinerants won't eat it.

랴연

What could possibly be wrong with eating horse meat ?

Are people really so close minded that they actually believe eating cows, fish, pigs etc is "OK" while somehow, magically I presume, eating horses is 'wrong'.

To date I've eaten dog (a few times), horse, live octopus, shark, jellyfish (yes believe it or not you can eat jellyfish), so many kinds of shellfish I couldn't even put a number on it, rotten fish (yes theres a way to cook rotten fish and its quite nice), boiled silkworms, roasted grasshopper, snail, raw and cooked crab, raw and cooked eel, chicken feet, pig feet, etc etc etc.

This complete nonsense of "Oh you can't eat that ..." is just that, complete nonsense.

We're eating cows now simply by luck of the draw. We could just as easily be eating horse or dog steaks in Ireland as normally as we are eating cow today.

Xiney

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Nah I wouldn't eat dog meat or horse meat.

People can go and call me hypocritical if they wanna but yeas may as well stretch it to cannibalism too then.



Thats just what the cannibals would say:pac:

Look, if you have an emotional attachment to horses, then it's wrong to you.

Anyone who doesn't have an emotional attachment to humanity is a little ****ed up - hence the fact that cannibalism is wrong. Also, I love dogs and cats and so I would never eat one. Those are my own personal values.

However, it's silly to assume that just because one culture has an attachment to horses doesn't meant that others won't. That's projecting your own subjective values on others, nothing more.

truecrippler

Ever tried eating tinned dog food?.. Thats horse meat.