Horse Meat!!!!

newmills · 05-03-2009 09:06PM #1

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 · 05-03-2009 09:07PM

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 · 05-03-2009 09:08PM

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

Hazys · 05-03-2009 09:08PM

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

ayapatrick · 05-03-2009 09:11PM

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

trailerparkboy · 05-03-2009 09:13PM

mmmmm horse meat.

Xiney · 05-03-2009 09:15PM

Yup - sweeter than beef.

It's widely available in Quebec in supermarkets.

newmills · 05-03-2009 09:15PM

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 · 05-03-2009 09:16PM

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

Sharpshooter · 05-03-2009 09:20PM

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 · 05-03-2009 09:21PM

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

Sharpshooter · 05-03-2009 09:24PM

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

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

Big difference, even the horse says neigh.

BaconZombie · 05-03-2009 09:25PM

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

Terry · 05-03-2009 09:29PM

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 · 05-03-2009 09:31PM

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 · 05-03-2009 09:36PM

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 · 05-03-2009 09:38PM

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 · 05-03-2009 09:38PM

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 · 05-03-2009 09:43PM

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 · 05-03-2009 09:54PM

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 · 05-03-2009 10:10PM

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 · 05-03-2009 10:15PM

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 · 05-03-2009 10:25PM

Is you're surname MacDonald by any chance?

byhookorbycrook · 05-03-2009 10:57PM

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 · 05-03-2009 11:00PM

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

3DataModem · 05-03-2009 11:54PM

Had it.

Loved it.

Real meaty meat. Yum.

pablomakaveli · 06-03-2009 12:14AM

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 · 06-03-2009 12:14AM

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

TPD · 06-03-2009 06:40PM

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 · 06-03-2009 06:47PM

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 · 06-03-2009 07:54PM

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"

Horse Meat!!!!

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