Nag And Chips? Horse Meat Trots Onto UK Menu

[Dudette]

A French restaurant in Edinburgh is the first in the country to offer diners "saucisson de cheval", or horse meat - and it is selling faster than a thoroughbred.

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[Strong]

Erm, actually I know of a guy who was buying and cooking horse meat just after the war, a famous restaurateur in fact. So this is nothing new. And of course they have been eating horses meat just across the channel in France for ever.

[Ferre]

Erm, actually I know of a guy who was buying and cooking horse meat just after the war, a famous restaurateur in fact. So this is nothing new. And of course they have been eating horses meat just across the channel in France for ever.

...and in Holland, and in Belgium, and in Germany, and about any other European country, you even find horse-butcher all over the place.

I love horse meat, horse steak, or smoked horse meat slices, hmmmm. :sqrolleyes:

Not eating horse meat is just a psychological/cultural thing, it tastes damn good, I prefer it over pig any day, but then again, I'm also not scared of eating pussy.

:3wink:

[Strong]

I've never understood the distinction people make between what meat is edible and what is culturally taboo. I'm guessing that horses are seen in some places as more than just a domesticated animal, they are perhaps seen as pet, companion, work mate and so are a breed apart from sheep, pig and cow. Why should cats, dogs and rats be excluded from the menu? Meat is meat, how can one be okay to eat while other is not. (Obviously I exclude human flesh on the grounds of the health concerns, but surely all others are fair game. (Except of course feasting at the womanly love box that you speak of).).

And why are so few insects ever eaten in the West?

I remember that at one time in France there was a shortage of meat in Paris and they started eating the animals in the zoo. Maybe it is just a British thing.

Of course I'm a vegetarian and don't partake, but the distinction that those that do, does trouble me. It is the inconsistency I think.

[Muddy]

I've never understood the distinction people make between what meat is edible and what is culturally taboo. I'm guessing that horses are seen in some places as more than just a domesticated animal, they are perhaps seen as pet, companion, work mate and so are a breed apart from sheep, pig and cow. Why should cats, dogs and rats be excluded from the menu? Meat is meat, how can one be okay to eat while other is not. (Obviously I exclude human flesh on the grounds of the health concerns, but surely all others are fair game. (Except of course feasting at the womanly love box that you speak of).).

And why are so few insects ever eaten in the West?

I remember that at one time in France there was a shortage of meat in Paris and they started eating the animals in the zoo. Maybe it is just a British thing.

Of course I'm a vegetarian and don't partake, but the distinction that those that do, does trouble me. It is the inconsistency I think.

I've often wondered the same thing.

As far as insects, I've wondered if grubs aren't much like shrimp and tarantulas much like crab. I bet they taste similar at least.

[Strong]

There was a TV chef that travelled the UK for a year living off what he could find, scavenge, hunt. He even tried woodlice fried up. His conclusion was they tasted a bit earthy and shrimp like.


Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Fearnley-Whittingstall)

His habit of "picking up roadkill and eating the hedgerows [...] earned him his nickname of Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall". He followed this with the series TV Dinners, during an episode of which he notoriously flambéed and puréed a human placenta which was served as a pâté and "much enjoyed by the baby's family and friends".

[Cryren8972]

I've been gearing more toward a vegetarian diet lately. Not because I have an issue with being at the top of the food chain, but because I don't like the way animals used for food are treated. So if horse meat is available, and I know it was a happy, well cared for horse, then I would rather eat it than a pig that was raised in a closed pen in horrid conditions.
That's why my freezer is full of fish...for the most part, they are swimming around rather happy before they're captured and put on my plate.

[Strong]

I've been gearing more toward a vegetarian diet lately. Not because I have an issue with being at the top of the food chain,...

Surely men are at the top of the food chain, so to speak? :sqwink:

[Cryren8972]

I dunno...I've eaten a man or two for breakfast before....(not on the same day, mind you)

[Strong]

You make a valid point. I retract my previous statement unreservedly!