Eating Horse Meat

Marie5656 said:
If offered, I would try it to see what it was like. Different cultures have different tastes for meat. In Australia, they often hunt and eat kangaroo...same way we in the US do with deer. Hey Aussie friends, what is it like? What to you call the meat? We call deer meat venison
There used to be a guy near Rochester where I lived. He had an ostrich farm. Sometimes he took them to petting zoos. But he also made them available for the meat. I tried ground ostrich once. Not bad. Tasted like ground beef.
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Marie, remember the big push to get people to eat and raise ostriches? They were said to be rich in protein with very little fat.

It didn't go over as well as hoped. People lost money when investing in their ostrich farms.

It's difficult for many people to overcome food fears and revulsion at eating something "strange", but it's all in our minds.

Good for you trying the ostrich!

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RadishRose said:
Marie, remember the big push to get people to eat and raise ostriches? They were said to be rich in protein with very little fat.

It didn't go over as well as hoped. People lost money when investing in their ostrich farms.


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As I recall, the guys farm did not last long at all. And the one store I had found the meat in stopped selling it. I would have tried it again.

On another note, I am seeing bison meat around here. Kind of expensive, which is the only thing preventing me from trying it.
 
I had a horse steak in Belgium in the 1970s, it was OK,
but a little tough as there is less fat in horse meat when
compared to beef.

If you see a restaurant in Belgium that is painted white on
the outside, that is a place that serves horse I was told by
the son of the owners, it might be different now of course.

I tried Kangaroo when I saw it in a London Supermarket,
that was a failure, I think I cooked it all wrong!

Mike.
 
Knight said:
Really?

1. Fruit Bat Soup
On the tiny island of Guam, in the western Pacific Ocean, locals like to indulge in a little “kå'kå'du fanihidu fanihi”, a meat dish made with a fox or fruit bat in a coconut milk soup. The still-living bat is nabbed from the wild, rinsed off, and popped into a boiling vat of water, wings, fur, and head intact, and boiled alive before being served up with a dash of coconut milk and vegetables (if you’re lucky). You’re meant to eat everything except the bones and teeth. While the bat is technically dead (or in the final throes of death) when served, the abundant parasites and bacteria it contains are certainly not. There are some serious diseases that can be passed along to humans from this dish so eat it with care, if you choose to eat it at all!
https://www.thedailymeal.com/travel/8-animals-are-eaten-alive-around-world-slideshow/slide-6

In comparison horse meat sounds great
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Sounds like dinner at the Osbournes. :sick:

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Oooooh, LOVE red deer! Tastes like beef used to taste. Goat is no big deal, if you like lamb you'll like goat. Not much difference; a little bit gamier.

One thing about cooking 'exotic red meats' is that many cuts are very lean. If you don't cook them carefully, they'll be dry and tough.

Using sous vide and then a quick sear would be ideal.
 
RadishRose said:
Marie, remember the big push to get people to eat and raise ostriches? They were said to be rich in protein with very little fat.

It didn't go over as well as hoped. People lost money when investing in their ostrich farms.

It's difficult for many people to overcome food fears and revulsion at eating something "strange", but it's all in our minds.

Good for you trying the ostrich!

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If you're gonna eat ostrich, don't eat the head, you don't know where it's been. :)
 
I've eaten it while in Paris back in the early 80s. The family we were staying with served it, and didn't tell us what it was until afterwards.

We had it on screwers (sp?), like fondue, and dipped it hot oil to cook it...if I'm remembering correctly....then dipped in diff sauces. It was good.

But, I prob wouldn't eat it again.

Then we had goose...............
 
In 1973 the last horse meat market in Portland Oregon closed. At one time there had been seven. I bought horse steaks for the same price as beef hamburger at the Fred meyer's market. I knew it would be dry so I made swiss steak out of it and had a good meal that was rare in my early collage days. When I see wild horses in the hills I remind myself where they were so if the times get rough I will find them.
 
Lethe200 said:
Americans and British have a view of horses as 'useful/recreational' rather than edible. It's a fair assumption that such cultural reluctance stems more from perception than reality.

The primary reason that Greeks; Romans; Moslems, Jewish and Christian theologians banned eating horses was that horses were of primary importance in pre-cannon (industrialized) warfare. The horse (and its historical equivalent of the tank, meaning the chariot) was a necessity in any successful military campaign, whether it was in China or Saxony.

The last horsemeat processing plant in the US closed in 2007. Horses are not as efficient meat animals to raise as pigs or cows. Commercial horse-rearing is geared to racing/breeding - such animals are not suitable for eating because of the high number of chemicals and medications used on them.

Business Insider has an excellent article on the eating and non-eating of horses: There's No Good Reason Why America Doesn't Eat Horses.

If one studies culinary history, one of the saddest and most obvious trend is that the average person's diet is very limited in scope compared to the many edibles available, even though the average American is far wealthier than in past centuries.

Some folks might enjoy looking at an 1898 menu from Delmonico's restaurant, NYC:
Delmonico's Restaurant, Sept 1898
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That was informative...thank you.
 
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