Has Anyone Knowingly Eaten Horsemeat?

[sandyRoe]

I think I may have done once.  The portion was bigger than usual and the meat had a slightly sweet taste.

[barry1010]

Yes.  It's okay

[retrocop]

Yes. Many times in Malta and once in Paris.

[sandyRoe]

Does it taste sweeter than beef or was that just me imagining it was?

[barry1010]

I had it in a casserole so there were many different flavours.  I didn't notice it being sweeter

[bhg481]

Yes. We quite enjoy it, particulaly fillet which is more tender than other pieces.

[Old_Geezer]

Nay.

[bhg481]

You can buy ostrich steaks in somet British supermarkets; that's a little sweeter than beef so maybe that's what you had.

[retrocop]

Personally. I think not. In Paris , in a iffy estaminet, it was shown as bif steak but I was told it later it was horse.

I have eaten many times in Mgarr Malta. The restaurant there makes. No bones about the fact it is horse and I ate it in a stew infused with many spices,herbs and red wine so I so I didn't particularly notice it was sweet .Horse Meat is a staple as there are more horses than cattle there. Rabbit is another meat staple.

[Clementino]

Same as retrocop, I also ate in a cheap bistro in Monmartre district of Paris many years back (when I was a student) The owner later told me it was horse.

[retrocop]

Lagam-taz-ziemel is the Maltese recipe.

[Clementino]

* Montmartre 

[naomi24]

Yes, often.  In many places abroad unless you specifically ask for beefsteak you get horse meat .

[10ClarionSt]

No but I remember my parents telling me that many people ate it during the war.

[ToraToraTora]

what a load of old pony!

[10ClarionSt]

Lots of people eat donkey meat these days but I don't think they realize it - in kebabs. Or maybe they do realize it!

[naomi24]

Clarion, do you mean that big chunk of unidentifiable meat stuff that they slice as it roasts?  

[retrocop]

Quite correct TTT. In Malta Pony and Suki racing/trotting is almost a National sport. When they are past their prime they end up iin the butchers shop unless the volunteers at Fort Rinella can give them a reprieve and use them in their miliatary tent pegging displays.

[retrocop]

Donkey meat features in a particularly spicy Cypriot sausage.

[10ClarionSt]

Yes, Naomi. I'm no expert and never eat any of that stuff but I knew someone who worked in one of those places and he told me - so it must be true! 

[retrocop]

Those kebab spits (Gyros) are a mystery to me. How can that meatbe edible after it is continually reheated and allowed to cool down at end of day.How that passes Food and Hygiene standards is beyond me.