so would you eat a horse?

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I'm not sure.
 

Berties

Fast and careful!
Have eaten it plenty of times,dedicated butchers and market stores in France,
If you were bought up eating it ,it would be the same morally as killing any animal,social conditioning ,if your parents eat dog or cat you will consider it normal,
since the crack down on horse meat in the uk Aldi lasagna had never been the same!
 

byegad

Legendary Member
Location
NE England
I suspect a lot of people have, unknowingly.

I certainly have had it in France and can report it is fine to eat. Rather lean meat, and properly cooked very tasty too.
 

Brains

Legendary Member
Location
Greenwich
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.
So why is Guniea Pig not part of our staple diet ? It is very widely eaten in South America but oddly not elsewhere
 

coffeejo

Ælfrēd
Location
West Somerset
They've never lived in the wild here so we don't have the culinary tradition of eating them, unlike rabbits, pigeons etc.

[Edit - guinea pigs, that is, not horses]
 
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Arjimlad

Tights of Cydonia
Location
South Glos
I had it as a lad on a school exchange trip, in the French school canteen.

Didn't taste bad at all, although some of my friends were a bit upset when they were told they had eaten horse !
 

coffeejo

Ælfrēd
Location
West Somerset
[QUOTE 2775479, member: 259"]There is a tradition, but it died out. In fact there were quite a few butchers selling horse-meat up north, but it kind of went out of fashion after the second world war.[/quote]
I meant guinea pigs, not horses. :thumbsup:
 

TVC

Guest
So why is Guniea Pig not part of our staple diet ? It is very widely eaten in South America but oddly not elsewhere
Perhaps because is wasn't known in Europe until 400 years ago. Rabbit has always been widely eaten, it is just recently that it has fallen out of favour.
 
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