Seriously Though - The Horse Meat Question....

[Mosaic]

...namely, why don't we eat horses in the UK and Eire?
From the outside ie the world of horse-eaters it must seem very odd that all this fuss is being made apparently over a nice cut of meat.
It's easy to see that in Jewish and Islamic practices pig meat is seen as not for eating - because their writings say so. But what is it that 'says' we don't eat meat?
Having done so when in foreign parts I can say as meat goes it seemed fine.

[Canary42]

Stupid sentiment - like not eating dogs.

[knowabit]

Im not too bothered that the burgers were found to contain horsemeat.... I'd be bothered if it were mice or rat, or something else that we shouldn't be eating!!

[tonyav]

Or cats or rats.
Don't think I could bring myself to knowingly eat Dobin though.

[beso]

Ask a Hindu about eating beef. They would definitely prefer horse.

[beso]

Mongols have always eaten horse meat.

[netibiza]

I will eat horse, but I cannot eat a rabbit!

[ummmm]

Rabbit isn't nice. Tried it once, never again.

[craft1948]

My nan used to make lovely rabbit pie..............

[Baldric]

With you there neti, well, at least not a whole one anyway?

[tonyav]

Your supposed to remove the buck shot first though ummmm !.

[Psybbo]

I'll never say I could eat a horse again

[Old_Geezer]

The fuss should be because the product was not labelled correctly rather than it contained horse meat. We should be able to trust the label.

[Mamyalynne]

Lots of information here on how and why the taboo came about in certain countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_meat

[ChillDoubt]

Have often wondered what pigeon tastes like, particularly the pie.

Anyone?

[janbee]

I think it's more to do with the fact that the label was incorrect. If it had horse meat and pig meat in it, then what else was hiding in there ?

[jno]

the waitress asked if I wanted anything on my burger so I said "A tenner each way"... oh, sorry, you did say seriously.

OG, that's true as far as it goes, but the next question is: How do we know the horse meat in question was safe, since nobody seems to know how it got there? So issues of health do arise too.

[Iluvspikey]

Hate rabbit, tried horse in France, it was like a gamey steak, strong, kinda sweetish, not unpleasant.

[ChillDoubt]

99% of all the jokes regarding this story have been about the horse, barely a mention of the pig.
It's probably down to the fact that the bloodstock and equine industry in this country ensures that eating horsemeat will always been an issue.
Most of us have a flutter on the Grand National, it's an institution. It was always a fun day when I was a kid, Dad asking us to pick our horses before he went down to the bookies, then all settling around the telly that afternoon, waiting for the off. It's now a part of British culture.

Probably why none of us wants the image that we might be tucking into the only faller at Beecher's Brook a week after the event!

[jno]

eating pig is normal, unless your religion forbids it, eating horse isn't. Strictly speaking if you want a pork burger you should ask for one.

Well done, medium or mare?