Horsemeat- What's the fuss ?

[peterperfection]

Seeing as we all get sausages complete with eyeballs and testicles etc- whats the fuss ?.
We all KNOW that every bit of a beast gets used - nothing is wasted at all.
They even have Bone Stripping machines that scrape of every morsal of meat and chuck it all into the melting pots .

 

[FiremanT]

Seeing as
we all get sausages complete with eyeballs and **** etc- whats the fuss ?.
We all KNOW that every bit of a beast gets used - nothing is wasted at all.
They even have Bone Stripping machines that scrape of every morsal of meat and chuck it all into the melting pots .

I don't eat ready made meals, and rarely sausages and beefburgers for that reason.

But MY problem eitht he current scandal is not so much the horsemeat, but the consideration is that (even with all the regulation) they didn't know about the HM, what else is going on (or in)

 

[libby lou lou]

Bute. Cancer causing?

 

[Graeme1983]

Its sounds a bit like the League of Gentlemen, the "special stuff".

I knocked beef on the head a couple of years ago, doc said watch my cholesterol. Then knocked supermarket chicken on the head as the amount of chemicals fed to the chicken or on the ingredients list of sliced chicken/turkey ham.

Now I just eat the odd rabbit or wild boar that you can get off the odd hunter or friend of a friend or at game restaurants.

 

[libby lou lou]

Been going on for donkeys.

 

[joinerjohn]

Our local rag is reporting increased sales of horse steaks (and other exotic meats) at a local supplier.

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/O...tory-18167307-detail/story.html#axzz2LCZezmyH

Although the owner says he's having problems sourcing halal camel meat.

 

[wobs]

I'd be more concerned if it contained quorn.

 

[luisdesign]

I think the trouble is that people didn't KNOW they were getting horse meat. Things are labelled up as containing certain things and it turns out they don't have what they say. This actually breaks various EU laws regarding food labelling... in short, its not that you got horse burgers, is because you thought they were cow burgers!

The other issue is of course that someone was profitting out of deceiving people. Apparently beef fetches about 3 times the price of pork and horse... so when someone substitutes an expensive meat for a cheap alternative not only are they deceiving and conning the buyer, they are making a pretty penny out of it.

 

[JBR]

I see that they've discovered zebra DNA in some supermarket bar codes.

I went to Tesco the other day, since I fancied a burger. However, initially I was unable to find them. Then a helpful young lady told me that if I walked past the dairy produce, turned left at The Booth, I would see them - directly after Becher's Brook.

I dutifully did so - only to discover that Tesco had a special offer on; they were selling ready-cooked burgers at half price. So I went up and ordered a couple and, when the chap who was cooking asked me what I wanted on them, I decided to splash out and said 'Ten pounds each way, please.'

 

[jeds]

No fuss. But I prefer to know what sort of lips and eyeballs are in my burgers.

 

[gas112]

As jeds says do you think they are only puttin the good bits of the horse in

 

[empip]

The Horsemeat Scandal 1948
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-horsemeat-scandal

Rabbit for chicken at the Chinese eatery etc etc and so it goes on.

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[joinerjohn]

I see BirdsEye have got in on the act now (even though their beefburgers don't actually contain birds eyes)

 

[libby lou lou]

I see BirdsEye have got in on the act now (even though their beefburgers don't actually contain birds eyes)

Yep, they had to jump on the band waggon.

Findus says find us, and they did

 

[Mikefromlondon]

I can't wait for the day when I am DIYing and chop my finger or two, and would love to see how my own flesh tastes, I will probably BBQ it first. And use the BBQ sauce, I am sure it would taste a lot better than a horse meat.