Eating Horse Meat

fmdog44

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I was not aware eating horse meat was so common. From an article in this weeks Bloomberg Businessweek mag. You can eat horse tartar in Montreal, horse salami in Italy, horse sashimi in Japan and horse steak in South Florida. Horse meat is slightly sweeter than beef and rich in protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
Hose meat can start at $7 /lb. for nags and increase five fold for a race horse.
 

It makes as much sense to me as eating any other animal but I just can't wrap my head around it.

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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
 
The horsemeat scandal of 2013, was when meat from horses entered the supply chain as beef and ended up being sold in many products in the UK. Initially identified in Ireland, the scandal stretched across Europe and beyond. The horsemeat scandal infiltrated numerous supply chains and lead to millions of products being withdrawn. It spawned many a joke.

James Birch wrote on Facebook ā€˜What next? My Lidl Pony?ā€™ in reference to the fact burgers containing horse meat had also been found in an Irish Lidl supermarket.
Jason E Lewis also got in on the act: ā€˜I got some Tesco burgers out of the freezer earlier aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnndddddddddd theyā€™re off!,ā€™ he joked.
Kezia Wallace waded into the humour by saying supermarkets would also cater for vegetarians. She wrote: ā€˜I hear that they are putting Uni-Quorn in the veggie burgers too.
 
fmdog44 said:
I was not aware eating horse meat was so common. From an article in this weeks Bloomberg Businessweek mag. You can eat horse tartar in Montreal, horse salami in Italy, horse sashimi in Japan and horse steak in South Florida. Horse meat is slightly sweeter than beef and rich in protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
Hose meat can start at $7 /lb. for nags and increase five fold for a race horse.
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We eat horse meat here too but it isn't found in the shops as often as it used to be. I don't like the taste very much.
 
horseless carriage said:
The horsemeat scandal of 2013, was when meat from horses entered the supply chain as beef and ended up being sold in many products in the UK. Initially identified in Ireland, the scandal stretched across Europe and beyond. The horsemeat scandal infiltrated numerous supply chains and lead to millions of products being withdrawn. It spawned many a joke.

James Birch wrote on Facebook ā€˜What next? My Lidl Pony?ā€™ in reference to the fact burgers containing horse meat had also been found in an Irish Lidl supermarket.
Jason E Lewis also got in on the act: ā€˜I got some Tesco burgers out of the freezer earlier aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnndddddddddd theyā€™re off!,ā€™ he joked.
Kezia Wallace waded into the humour by saying supermarkets would also cater for vegetarians. She wrote: ā€˜I hear that they are putting Uni-Quorn in the veggie burgers too.
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There was another scandal some years ago about minced roo meat being sold to Hungry Jack's (Australia's Burger King) unbeknownst to the franchise or to the public.
 
jujube said:
I had a couple of bites of a horse meat burger once. It was a bit odd-tasting, I thought, and I wouldn't be interested in eating it again.

I'll try anything.....once......
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Really?

1. Fruit Bat Soup
On the tiny island of Guam, in the western Pacific Ocean, locals like to indulge in a little ā€œkĆ„'kĆ„'du fanihidu fanihiā€, 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 youā€™re lucky). Youā€™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
 
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 ā€œkĆ„'kĆ„'du fanihidu fanihiā€, 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 youā€™re lucky). Youā€™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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This is beyond disgusting. What type of human wants to , not only witness a living animal suffer such a horrid death, but then delight in eating it?
Are people that heartless?
Iā€™m sorry but I find humans the most , sadistic, uncaring animals to inhibit this planet. Completely horrific. šŸ„ŗ
 
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.
 
fmdog44 said:
I was not aware eating horse meat was so common. From an article in this weeks Bloomberg Businessweek mag. You can eat horse tartar in Montreal, horse salami in Italy, horse sashimi in Japan and horse steak in South Florida. Horse meat is slightly sweeter than beef and rich in protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
Hose meat can start at $7 /lb. for nags and increase five fold for a race horse.
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Horse meat, whale meat, we had both in the UK in the 40s, some people even prefered it. :)
 
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 ā€œkĆ„'kĆ„'du fanihidu fanihiā€, 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 youā€™re lucky). Youā€™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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OK, almost anything...ā€¦ I definitely would pass on the Fruit Bat Soup, bat fricassee, bat casserole, flaming Buffalo bat wings, bat sushi, bat kebabs, bat marinara, frozen bat pops, ....or any bat dish at all.....or things that are still alive......
 
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Lethe200 said:
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.
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Lethe200, I have thought about this myself and believe it to be so true!

Regarding horse meat however, back in the early 70's, it became a short lived trend. There was a place out of town that began selling it. We bought some, but even though I'd vowed to try it, I couldn't even look at it. I left the house until it was over.
 
fmdog44 said:
I was not aware eating horse meat was so common. From an article in this weeks Bloomberg Businessweek mag. You can eat horse tartar in Montreal, horse salami in Italy, horse sashimi in Japan and horse steak in South Florida. Horse meat is slightly sweeter than beef and rich in protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
Hose meat can start at $7 /lb. for nags and increase five fold for a race horse.
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A race horse would have tougher muscles. I don't believe it's that more expensive. Pretty tough meat, I'd think.

France was big on horse meat, at one time, anyway.
 

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