so would you eat a horse?

[Arch]

I would give it a go, however I believe there is a reason why we eat cows, sheep and pigs. It's because they taste the best. If badger meat was very tasty then our ancestors would have found a way of farming them, equally, if horse was first class meat then there would be huge herds of them being fattened up.

The reason we don't eat horse is a papal edict from more than a thousand years ago - eating horse flesh was seen as a pagan activity. Thanks to this, horses were never bred for meat like cows, so they remain fairly inefficient as meat animals - long gestation, and no meat maximising conformation or growth pattern. Beef cattle are not identical to dairy cattle, after all.

Nothing wrong with eating horse, morally or gastronomically or hygienically, assuming it's not been fed unsuitable drugs. In fact, it's healthier than beef, the fat in it being unsaturated rather than saturated.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Race horse would be a rare treat. Just trying to catch the f***er for a start.

Hmm, a thorough bread sandwich!

 

[vernon]

Looks good enough to eat.

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[Poacher]

The reason we don't eat horse is a papal edict from more than a thousand years ago - eating horse flesh was seen as a pagan activity.

So why is horse-eating so widespread in France (largely Catholic) yet a strict nay-neigh in the UK?

As a fairly strict piscatarian, I would only eat horse if it was a roadkill and I could strap it to the pannier carrier without it dragging on the floor.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

So why is horse-eating so widespread in France (largely Catholic) yet a strict nay-neigh in the UK?

As a fairly strict piscatarian, I would only eat horse if it was a roadkill and I could strap it to the pannier carrier without it dragging on the floor.

Thereby hangs a tale....

 

[snorri]

I think the OP is to be congratulated on starting one of the best worst pun producing threads I've seen in a long time

 

[beastie]

Nowt wrong with a cheval burger. In previous job I was Executive Chef of a racecourse and suggested a cheval burger stall as a new outlet. Did not go down well. Not one little bit.

 

[ayceejay]

The point the lady was trying to make is that if horses were bred for eating rather than racing they would probably be treated better.
Since we have concentrated on wordplay it behooves me to mention this distinction.

 

[Arch]

So why is horse-eating so widespread in France (largely Catholic) yet a strict nay-neigh in the UK?

As a fairly strict piscatarian, I would only eat horse if it was a roadkill and I could strap it to the pannier carrier without it dragging on the floor.

For the same reason we get the bad end of the deal in the EU. We're day enough to take notice of the rules!

 

[Arch]

Daft, not day. Damn phone.

For the same reason we get the bad end of the deal in the EU. We're day enough to take notice of the rules!

 

[BigonaBianchi]

 

[craigwend]

If only other animals were so agreeable ...

 

[Chris Norton]

Nothing wrong with horse at all. Very tasty. If I had a choice of a forerib of horse at a fiver a kilo over a dexter forerib at probably 4 times the price, I'll take the horse. BUT I would want to know it's horse and not have it hidden away.

 

[uphillstruggler]

Yep

I am sure I ate dog on more than one occasion.

Baste it in garlic or chilli and off you giddi up.

 

[Over The Hill]

I think there was a point raised in the horsemeat fiasco about various drugs given to horses (bute was one). The issue I see with it is that a horse is not regarded as being in the food chain so may be given drugs that would not be allowed to be given to animals destined for human consumption.