Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 17 Jan 13 - 04:58 AM

The problem is that the pack stated "100% beef"
No-one says that there is a health issue.
There is not.
A bigger issue for some people is that it also contained pork.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jan 13 - 04:44 AM

Cat's are just another form of white meat. Or so it says on the sweater of a cat hating friend of mine ;)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: open mike
Date: 17 Jan 13 - 12:32 AM

sadly horses are sometimes shipped to canada and mexico to be slaughtered for human consumtion. Often they are of poor health
and some die enroute. At this time there are no slaughter houses in u.s. (thankfully)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_slaughter this article contains international data.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 10:04 PM

Well, Rap, it's like this... It takes four days of accumulating enough ants for one bite...

BTWm I ain't eatin' most of the other stuff you listed...

B~

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 10:01 PM

Dog, cat, rat, horse, cow, pig, deer, moose, elk, alligator, lots of different fish, rattlesnake, ducks, geese, cranes, roaches, ants, termites, swans, song birds, calves, unborn chickens...why worry about horses?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 08:43 PM

Cat is good stir-fried.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 08:39 PM

Meow...

B;~)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: bobad
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 08:37 PM

Quebec has a thriving horse meat industry where it is known as chevaline which sounds more exotic than horse. Anglo Canada is hippophobic when it comes to consumption of same.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 08:25 PM

Sometine in my grade school or junior high school years we bought some horse burger, labeled as such, in a local grocery in Minnesota. So far as I can remember, our only real reaction was "this isn't very flavorful burger".

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 06:56 PM

Horse, the other, other red meat...

Here Trigger...

B~

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: Rumncoke
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 06:29 PM

There could possibly be a problem with the slaughtering - the meat comes from Europe, so I don't know the regulations there, however, there is no line for horses in the slaughter houses here.

Personally I would not eat horse meat - well - not unless it was to stay alive. Not out of any thought that it was not good meat, just that the horse is a different sort of animal. I'd probably have no problem with zebra - but donkey isn't food either.

During the times of rationing here in the UK horse meat was sold as food for dogs, dyed green. Not because it was unfit to eat, just so that no one could sell it as something it was not.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 06:16 PM

Rabbits that meow?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 06:07 PM

Its being wrongly labelled that is the main problem I think !

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 04:20 PM

Eating horse is no more barbaric than eating deer, or cows. I have eaten (and enjoyed) horsemeat burgers in France, kangaroo in Oz, and goat in Jugoslavia (as was)
Like the cannibal said. "If god hadn't meant us to eat people, he wouldn't have made them of meat!"

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: GUEST,Seonaid
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 04:03 PM

There's a story dating from the (previous) Great Depression about a butcher who was doing a terrific business selling rabbit sausages.
Noting a scarcity of local rabbits, the food inspectors came calling and inquired about his ingredients.
"Tell us," they prompted, "are using any filler in these rabbit sausages -- say, horsemeat?"
The butcher looked uneasy and allowed that sometimes he might use a little horsement, if he couldn't get enough rabbits.
"And just how much is 'a little' horsemeat?" pressed the inspectors.
"Well, a proportion," he dodged.
"All right, be honest, now!" demanded the inspectors. "How much horsement are you really using?"
"Well," admitted the butcher, squirming. "It's 50-50!"
"50-50?" repeated the inspectors, skeptically.
"Yes, 50-50!" the butcher insisted. "One horse, one rabbit!"

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 03:57 PM

Ate it as a kid. Don't anymore.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: gnomad
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 03:33 PM

Sorry, meant to refer to Little boy Billee, to keep the music reference. I'd probably not eat boy if I could avoid it, but given the alternative of say slug I might face a difficult choice.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: gnomad
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 03:29 PM

Perfectly happy to eat horse (haven't done so to my knowledge, but have eaten donkey, OK, and kangaroo, less so) so I am happy with the ingredient. However I do want the package (or butcher, WHY) to accurately describe what is on sale.

You can sell Dachshund meat for all I care (sorry, LH, I know you are fond of them) just don't tell me it's something else.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 02:34 PM

Many years ago, Senator Everett_Dirksen, (who had a deep, gravelly voice) was opposed to a bill allowing 'some' horsemeat to be sold for human consumption.

When his turn came to comment, he simply got up and sang:

♫The old grey mare, she ain't what she used to be.
Out of the stable now-
Onto the table now.
The old grey mare, she ain't what she used to be-
A blue-plate platter soon!♫


The bill failed.

Subject: Folklore: Mama don't allow no hippophagy here
From: Jack Campin
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 02:12 PM

There is a current scandal in the UK because burgers made in Ireland and sold through the Tesco supermarket chain have been found to contain 25% horsemeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21038521

We are being told either that that's disgusting, or that the British people in general find it disgusting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21043368

Well, count me out. I've never been repelled by the idea and would quite happily eat horsemeat if it was available - whereas I haven't eaten British-produced beef since the BSE epidemic started. I have eaten donkey once, in Croatia, and preferred it to beef. Nor have I ever encountered anyone else who was revolted by the idea of eating horse.

So who are all these outraged people? And why can't I just go into a deli and buy this?

Canned horse meat from Kazakhstan

I'd guess there are songs about The Roast Horse of Old Kazakhstan but I haven't found one yet. Surely somebody has a song about a horsemeat feast?