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.

[naomi24]

Crikey!  I didn't know that.  I've often wondered what it is.

[sandyRoe]

I remember a scene in a tv drama where someone called the meat on the vertical spit an elephants leg.

[DTCwordfan]

Yes, many times in France....nothing wrong with it - leaner than beef.

[rowanwitch]

Yes in Belgium,  was very young on a school trip,  

[DTCwordfan]

eating the saddle was a bit chewy.....

[DTCwordfan]

allowing for the Muslims ré pork, the osnly meat the Chinese do not eat is horse - or, put it this way, with all my travels around the country, I've never seen it on a menu. There are big regional differences - no birds other than duck or geese north of the Yangste - anything that flies to the south.... Lamb - rarely seen in the south but plenty in the north -and then there's the odd stuff, hedgehogs, snakes, anteaters,  armadillos etc that have resulted me being on the WWF terrorist list.

[theshedman]

Not horsemeat but had camel a number of times and good it was too.

[sandyRoe]

The Chinese seem to have too catholic a taste when it comes to the animals they eat.  Pangolin comes to mind and bits of endangered animals are used in quack medicines.

Shameful.

[sandyRoe]

DTC,

That saddle can't have been marinated long enough.  You should have sent it back.

[rowanwitch]

While I would mostly try anything farmed, or culled due to overpopulation  I do tend to get into trouble 

What's that? small child pointing at hog roast..... You know that film Babe.... That's him... Walk away fast!

What's for Christmas dinner.... Bambi's bum.....  I am just not nice sometimes

 

[bhg481]

Havin bought somereindeer meat in Belgium one december we told our two grandsons that there wouldn't be any Christmas presents that year because we'd just eaten Rudolph.

[retrocop]

theshedman. Camel also featured in Turkish/Cypriot Pastourma sausages. The delis now claim they use beef but I reckon it is still used up in the mountain regions.

[theshedman]

retrocop, we often had it when I worked in the middle east, usually in curries and the like.  Tastes good and it's supposed to be good for you.

[Lie-in King]

I've not eaten it to my knowledge, but if someone offered it to me, I'd happily try it.

[Cloverjo]

I think I have. There were rumours on a school trip to France that horse was in our meal. I ate it but I didn't eat much after that. 

[Vagus]

Not knowingly, no.
But having spent a lot of time in France, I've probably eaten it without knowing.

The markets always had a stall solely selling horse meat. I'd eat it even if I knew but wouldn't buy it from one of those stalls and cook it at home.

[sandyRoe]

When I was a schoolboy I'd sometimes be sent to a pet shop to buy horse meat for the dog.  It was dyed green.  The dye clearly wouldn't harm the pooch.  Could humans have eaten it?

[barry1010]

Meat can be declared unfit for human consumption but okay for animals, so it is dyed.  There has been a few tv programmes about some shady people buying dyed chicken, bleaching it and selling it to butchers and restaurants.

[barry1010]

This was a butchers that sold only horse meat in Birmingham, it could have been wartime 

https://brumphotoarchive.co.uk/image/2658/Cheval_Meat_Stores_Dudley_Road_Birmingham

You can still buy horsemeat in the UK 

 

[bhg481]

I suspect they could - it's just that it wasn't cleared for human consumption. I think that it's not legal to sell horse for human consumption in the UK.

Back in the day my wife worked in a grocer's shop (very much Open all Hours, even down to the meanness of the owner). Some recent immigrants used to buy Kit-E-Kat for their packed-lunch  sandwiches.