Topical Question - Have You Eaten Horse Meat?

jd_1984 | 08:51 Thu 17th Jan 2013 | ChatterBank

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Have you ever eaten (knowingly haha) Horse Meat.
I eat it in Vienna at a hot dog stand. It was similar in texture to hot dog meat, cut into bite sized chunks and served with a hot roll and sauce. I was fairly intoxicated but seem to remember it being quite nice. I cant liken the taste to anything but it was very much like eating a hot dog to be honest.
In a country of horse lovers, this is probably a taboo subject but I wasnt averse to eating it and probably would again (if drunk at a Austrian hot dog vender!!)

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joggerjayne

I think a lot of people who've been to France, especially say Paris, will have had a horse steak.

naomi24

Yes, many times.

DTCwordfan

Yes many times in France and Belgium

Interestingly in a country that eat all of an animal, fish or reptile, China does not eat them.

Stringy beef is the way that I would describe it, the meat almost needs barding to cook, akin to Bison.....

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Interesting about China.. They will eat almost anything!

sunny-dave

Yes - in Belgium. Not particularly taken with it - as DT says, it lacks the internal fat to make it tender/tasty.

Interesting how we agonise about eating Dobbin, yet munch our way cheerfully through Shaun, Daisy, Peppa, Rocky and Bambi ... very odd ...

naomi24

Giraffe is quite tasty.

Smowball

True SD. We eat bunny rabbits, but not kittens. ( well I hope we dont!!)

mrs_overall

Yes, and very nice it was too

commoner

Strange you should mention eating cats/kittens smow...in the war it wasn't wise to buy a skinned rabbit without the head and feet.....if you did it was most likely a CAT..Ugh!

And no jd I would never knowingly eat horse.....

rowanwitch

I did in Belgium once it had been cooked for ages in a rich sauce and was really lovely I'd happily eat it again

weecalf

Has fish fingers bee tested lately, probably nails and all ,how could they remove them

emmie

yes, but inadvertently, it was in nice restaurant in Paris, it was called beef steak, equivalent in French, after finding out later what it was i and my companions weren't best pleased. If it says beef, then would expect to be served it.

paddywak

Commoner, years ago when we had a shop in the village that sold game, the guy sold skinned rabbits but he always left the feet on and unskinned so you could see it was a rabbit and yes I've eaten horse when we've been in Europe and found it to be like most meats, sometimes good some times bad depending on where you were and how it was cooked.

Georgiesmum

Yes, ive eaten horse. I was on a school trip to paris with the school. We had no idea it was horse until after we had eaten it. We were all horrified!

mrs_overall

weecalf - I didn't know that fish had nails!

Years ago I used to go a dodgy Indian restaurant every Friday night (all you could eat for 50p). I once ordered a half rabbit curry. The dish arrived with half a "rabbit" that had been split down the spine. Its back leg and front leg were more or less the same size. I am convinced to this day it was a cat. It tasted like a cross between rabbit and chicken.

RATTER15

I often sold rabbit to butchers and I always left a single foot on them.

It always amused me how a rabbits foot was considered to be lucky when you think the poor rabbit it came from had four of them!