Horse Meat

[starlaugh]

The other day on Gordon Ramsay's F word there was a bit on eating horse meat, i haven't tried it but wouldn't turn my nose up at it.

The poll is simple would you try it?

What are you thoughts?

[Acidfairy]

I love horses, have been brought up around them since i was little.

At first i turned my nose up at the thought of eating horse meat but when i tried it in France it was lovely. Its a very strong meat but was really tasty.

I guess its like us eating venison, zebra, kangaroo etc...

[Playground Politics]

lovely i really wanna go to the gastronomic festival, where they eat as much weird stuff as they can:love: :love: :love:

[Agent Subby]

Sorry but I don't and would never eat my dead friends:cry:

[starlaugh]

I am quite open to new things, i kinda have a "don't knock it till ya tried it" attituses towards stuff (very few things i wont try).

Really i mean how can it be much different to Beef?

Though horse meat never appeared on the specials menu i used to get from the butchers when i used to chef, lots of other stuff did though

[tarifa]

Sorry but I don't and would never eat my dead friends:cry:

You veggie hun or just have some animals that are your special friends (mmmm not sure how that sounds!):groucho:

[Agent Subby]

You veggie hun or just have some animals that are your special friends (mmmm not sure how that sounds!):groucho:

Yep I'm veggie babs. And no I don't have any animals that are my special friends. There are quite a lot of sheep right in the next field to where I live though.:groucho: :groucho:

[Acidfairy]

Yep I'm veggie babs. And no I don't have any animals that are my special friends. There are quite a lot of sheep right in the next field to where I live though.:groucho: :groucho:


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[globalloon]

i've eaten it once. it was nothing special. i don't think i'd ever eat horse again unless i was really hungry and there was nothing else to eat

[General Lighting]

this is something I have been wondering about

here in Suffolk there is a long-standing tradition of sausage-making.

This is wholly understandable - its a good way of using up offcuts of meat around slaughtering time.

But bear in mind that the practice of Trading Standards and Maff/Defra closely checking exactly what goes into a sausage is a recent phenomenon (perhaps from the the 60s).

Although clearly butchers didn't want to poison their paying customers and there was at least some checking of cleanliness/sanitary procedures, everything was left to market forces and the laws of supply and demand, meat was in short supply from end of WW II until the late 1950s, and most species look the same once they've been through an industrial mincer..

Anyone thinking what I'm thinking?

[starlaugh]

Anyone thinking what I'm thinking?

Whats that? That in the past people may have been eating "horse sausage"?

[General Lighting]

Whats that? That in the past people may have been eating "horse sausage"?

well not 100% horse all of the time (as the animals would be used for transport) but when one becomes "available" - what (other than consience) was stopping people bulking out meat supplies in sausages, pies and other similar products?

[Tank Girl]

Dont eat meat as dont really like it -

but would if there was nothing else to eat and I was hungry (desert Island type senario)
dont see the difference between that and any other meat to be honest

[General Lighting]

Dont eat meat as dont really like it -

but would if there was nothing else to eat and I was hungry (desert Island type senario)
dont see the difference between that and any other meat to be honest



pretty much what was happening in the 1930s to 1950s due to the effects of war...

I've read a few sources claiming that the more recent horsemeat taboo in Britain is little to do with animal welfare (especially when you consider how many horses the racing fraternity get through every year) - but more because eating horsemeat was seen as a sign of poverty.

[Kerrse]

Think i eat it i don't see any difference bewteen it and other meats.

[globalloon]

pretty much what was happening in the 1930s to 1950s due to the effects of war...

I've read a few sources claiming that the more recent horsemeat taboo in Britain is little to do with animal welfare (especially when you consider how many horses the racing fraternity get through every year) - but more because eating horsemeat was seen as a sign of poverty.

for me eating horses is not very attractive because i like to ride horses, find them intelligent and the taste isn't so great. cows are just bred to be eaten and sheep are so dumb they deserve it. pigs are smart, but not smart enough to stop themselves from tasting ******* great

[Digital-A]

i ate sheeps brain ...


never again ...

[starlaugh]

i ate sheeps brain ...


never again ...

Really! what was it like?

[Digital-A]

ermmm ...

you know those meatballs in a can ... if you closed your eyes and eat one its like that ...

[starlaugh]

Ah cant really knock it then.... :wink:

[Southcaver]

shit, i'd eat a giant panda if i had the munchies!

[starlaugh]

shit, i'd eat a giant panda if i had the munchies!

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[General Lighting]

given some of the responses to this thread I reckon the toffs are probably gonna be keeping their horses and ponies locked indoors now, just wait until people have their post-rave surge of hunger.... :laugh_at:

[paulfh]

Meats meat as far as i'm concerned although i have heard horse is quite tough and gamey so not sure if id actually like it but would be willing to try it

[rrowdy]

if i was starving to death i might eat a horse rather than my own arm

[Nadz]

I voted no. I can eat and live perfectly happily without poor old horses having to be tied up, imprisoned and killed. Sorry, an ethical answer to a culinary question.

[party on]

ive ate horse meat in italy ....

it was pretty much like chicken and ok

at the end of the day meat is meat whichever way you look at it ..

whether its dog, cat, chicken, beef, etc, etc ,

its what your conditioned to in the east they eat dogs etc its no different than us here eating beef

party on raaa