so would you eat a horse?

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[QUOTE 2772777, member: 1314"]Taking my dinner home from Budgens. innit

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A total fashion crime! That "wifebeater" vest really doesn't suit you CoG...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm not sure.

 

[Berties]

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]

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.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A total fashion crime! That "wifebeater" vest really doesn't suit you CoG...

A mullet too, and gears on the bike, hipster status revoked.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2774609, member: 1314"]You never mentioned the highlights in the hair![/quote]

Thought it was your natural colour.

 

[Brains]

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]

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]

 

[Arjimlad]

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 !

 

[Maz]

I know an old woman who swallowed a horse. She's dead, of course.

Hope that helps.

 

[coffeejo]

[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.

 

[Arch]

All the guinea-pig butchers went out of business after WWII as well.

It was the spivs that did it, going round with overcoats full of strung up guinea pigs, off the ration....

 

[TVC]

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.

 

[TVC]

[QUOTE 2775817, member: 259"]It's about as British as macaroni. Hare is native though. @Fnaar tells me it makes a lovely pie. [/quote]
I said Europe, I blame those Romans

 

[Archie_tect]

[QUOTE 2775791, member: 259"]...They used to ride round on bikes with stripey jerseys and berets.[/quote]
The sellers or the guinea pigs?