Some great recipes for future reference
Tue, 2013-02-12 08:58
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Highhat
As far as I know Findus is offering to cook it for everyone. On the news this morning the danish RSPCA said that we would be doing horses a great favour if we cooked them ourselves as they are transported under poor conditions to France and Italy. I have had whale steaks but never horse.
Ed Crane
I have to say I feel a little sorry for Findus. When I was working, Findus was a client of mine. They are a very honourable company (or were then) and take great care over the products they produce. Can't say I feel the same about the UK supermarket chain Tescos who are nasty to work for and into profit at any cost. (In fairness to Tescos, their main competitors are the same)
I get horse meat where I live (Belgium). It comes as traditional gourmet processed meat or as raw cuts, usually steaks. It's considered very healthy and easy to digest. Hospitals give it to patients recovering from operations or with digestive problems. Also it's not a cheap meat here anymore because people are getting more health conscious. It's about 11-12 euro/kg compared to 13-14 euros/kg for beef.
Certainly there is a difference in taste to beef, less strong, slightly more 'gamey' probably because it has far less fat content than beef.
Sad about animals being transported live. I do believe the EU should stop this and insist they are killed under carefully EU approved conditions in the country of origin. Of course the likes of the UK government will complain it is the EU telling them what to do again and it would mean spending money (can't have that in the UK unless it's for MP's companies).
karl_wiggins
I've never knowlingly eaten horse meat, but I've eaten zebra. Nice actually. A bit spicy.
blighters rock
Being politically incorrect, i'd like to point out that the UK is one of the only EU (cough) countries that doesn't eat it, or thought it didn't.
Much like the jolly corruption in banks, govt, councils, law and everywhere else that taxpayers' money can be reasonably wasted, the wondrous powers that be have led us all a merry dance, placing firm rules and regs (pure beef/bullshit) that they break every day without fail and as a matter of course because they know they can get away with it. Yes, it's described as an industrial conspiracy by the secretary of gobbledegook but by the way he looked to the left on camera (the creative side of his brain) it's quite obvious that everyone in govt knew what was going on. Industrial conspiracy is so fecking old hat. These are the wishes of the highest, poeed down through the ranks with quiet money and firing on the side. Corruption's endemic in society so I wonder how all this can be so newsworthy.
Why do you think the bankers and council leaders get bonuses? To shut the fuck up. Because most workers are part of the problem, they shut the fuck up too, so what should we really expect from life other than one pound fish. If they could make burgers out of soil and advertise it as beef, they'd do it.
On a lighter, more writerish note, when I lived in Paris, one of my favourite meals was 'oeuf a cheval' at a grotty little cafe on Rue Montorgueil. It was a horse-burger with an egg on top and it was about a fiver with chips. Another cheap eat was at the post office workers cafeteria (three courses for 32 francs, circa 1992) in the 2nd arrondissement. Horse burgers were half the price there and nothing like the shite we get over here.
Have a happy conspiracy!
'Boeuf a cheval' seems to be order of the day.