Findus Lasagna...

[Jemisa]

What would you do?

I fancy a lasagna for our meal tonight & I've got a large 'Findus' one in the freezer. normally we quite enjoy it with garlic bread and a fresh salad.
But... do I eat it or throw it?
It seems such a shame to throw it. I Dunno what to do.

I know it won't kill us but the mere thought there could be Horse meat in it gives me the shivvers.

jem

[2sp_]

mags, I don't have horses - we run a DIY livery yard.

But, we do have cattle, sheep and hens and I eat meat. Most farmers do.

[magsmay]

2sp -sorry I assumed you were 'horsey' running a livery yard -I've never met anyone who runs a horse based business who doesn't ride themselves , first time for everything I suppose. I bet a pound to a penny you don't eat your hens they would be a bit stringy lol! You eat meat and breed animals for the table but would you eat your dogs? for me eating a horse would be the same as eating a dog. BTW I know what farmers do - done it all my life

[moonraker558]

Might give you the trots.

[2sp_]

mags, you are right, I wouldn't eat my dog or any other pet, but have and will continue to eat animals we have reared ourselves for the table. If we reared horses for meat, I would eat them without a problem.

And, yes, our hens tend to die of old age!

[excelsior-1]

Jem

i'll come and share it with you

i'll bring a bottle of good wine - that should make things more palatable

[beegeebee]

Seems a bit over the top to worry about what is now in the food chain. For the last couple of hundred years we have been pouring medicines/antibiotics/birth control pills into the waterways of the UK via our sewage diposal systems, which is then recycled to us as freesh clean water which, it obviously is not. There is no way the medicaments contained in the water is/can be removed at the treatment works.

[vakayu]

I would do neither,take it back to shop for full refund,no receipt needed last I heard!!

[pastafreak]

Eating horse would not bother me-as long as I knew it was horse-and it was labeled as horse. I can't be nonchalant about it and say-'oh it's probably been going on for years-so it's ok'. It's not ok because it was not supposed to be there in the first place. It's there because someone most likely wanted to cut corners,and therefore we have no knowledge of the how,when,why-that may have been going on for years. Most of it may be fine-but what of the rest?

[woolleysheep]

will they sell horse meat in the uk in the future it would be a cheaper form of meat uk for shoppers feeling the pinch

[pastafreak]

It would probably then become 'trendy'...and skyrocket in price. Delia,Heston and Jamie would be making everything from burgers to sorbet with it.

[Voulez-vous]

It's a weird one, isn't it? It was fine to eat before we knew about the horsemeat situation, and it's not a health risk, as far as we know.

It just feels different now. I know I couldn't eat it now that I know. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, as my grandma would have said. She would also have said what you don't know can't hurt you!

I'd bin it. But I have eaten horsemeat in France. Go figure. I think it is probably some ropey old horse, as horsemeat is more expensive than beef usually, I'm told.

[mrs_overall]

You would have eaten it quite happily before the horse meat scandal, so why not now? Meat is meat.

I believe only one person has been hospitalised after eating horese meat but his condition is described as stable

[Terino000]

You should not look a gift horse in the mouth. Obviously Findus buy meat which is far too cheap to be beef and just don't ask questions and pocket the profit.

[craft1948]

If I was starving I'd eat the dog................

[mrs_overall]

Craft, if I was starving I would join you. (Lassie burgers?

[Terino000]

Eat the dog? You must be barking!

[Voulez-vous]

"If I was starving I'd eat the dog................"

When Paris was starving they ate the zoo animals, and Manet ate the family cat.

Yes, meat is meat, but we have become more choosy these days. However, I'm sure we'd all be glad of horse/donkey etc if we were starving. Fact is, we aren't.

[mrs_overall]

Horse meat is eaten widely on the continent through choice, not due to starvation. I don't know why people in this country are so sniffy about it

[naomi24]

I wouldn't have eaten Findus Lasagne even before all this horse meat thing - but if you've eaten it before I can't see why you shouldn't continue. I expect it's the same as it's always been.

I've eaten dog- unknowingly at the time.

[tonyav]

Was that somewhere in the far east naomi ?.