Horse Meat

[LancsHibs]

Anybody tried any of the Horse steaks at E'scargot Bleu?:greengrin

[Phil D. Rolls]

Anybody tried any of the Horse steaks at E'scargot Bleu?:greengrin

I think I'd go for horse over a blue snail any day. Tbh, I don't think I'd have a problem with it.

The horse is a sacred animal in this country, in the same way that cows are to Hindis. Once you get over that, it's just another piece of meat.

[Marabou Stork]

I've tried it in France a few times. The first time I had it, it was delicious. Each time after that though, it's been ok but nothing special.

[steakbake]

I've tried it in France a few times. The first time I had it, it was delicious. Each time after that though, it's been ok but nothing special.

:agree:

Once you have had it once, you wonder what all the fuss is about. It's like most things, to be honest. Except heroin.

[J-C]

Heard it's very lean and tasty.

Thing is in our culture we see horses as pets and like most pets are not edible food, but what about the people who have pot bellied pigs as pets but are still happy to eat pork. We have canine teeth for a reason, we're omnivores and that's how we survive as a species.

I have no problem eating horse meat, or any kind of meat within reason, remember the scandal years ago about certain chinese restaurants serving cat instead of chicken, well no one was any the wiser until it was exposed.

Ghengis Khan in Leith serves up a varied amount of wierd meats, ostrich, zebra etc, nobody bats an eyelid about that because these animals are seen as wid and not pets, it's all in the mind.

[Wilson]

It is probably alright if you know that is what you are eating. I went to a place that tried to pass it off as chicken. They wont get by me with a 6ft drumstick!!

[RyeSloan]

Heard it's very lean and tasty.

Thing is in our culture we see horses as pets and like most pets are not edible food, but what about the people who have pot bellied pigs as pets but are still happy to eat pork. We have canine teeth for a reason, we're omnivores and that's how we survive as a species.

I have no problem eating horse meat, or any kind of meat within reason, remember the scandal years ago about certain chinese restaurants serving cat instead of chicken, well no one was any the wiser until it was exposed.

Ghengis Khan in Leith serves up a varied amount of wierd meats, ostrich, zebra etc, nobody bats an eyelid about that because these animals are seen as wid and not pets, it's all in the mind.

Is this true or is it an urban myth...I would have assumed that the supply of cats would be so small to make it almost impossible for a kitchen to actually replace their chicken with cat....chicken is also extremely cheap (esp when buying the poorer quality stuff from the Cash and Carry which I'm sure most chionese takeaways do) so I'm not sure the economics of such a move really stack up at all!!

[Peevemor]

I can understand people being squeamish about meat in general, but not specific animals.

Rabbit, for example, is still eaten a lot more here than it is in Scotland. I'm not that fussed for it myself, but I can eat it no bother and don't see what the difference is between that and say dog or cat.

[Sergey]

I've eaten it several times, both cooked and raw.

It's extremely popular in Japan where it's known as busashi. It's basically minced finely and served with grated garlic. Pretty decent eats.

I've got a picture on my PC but I don't think I can post it in this forum.

[steakbake]

I've eaten it several times, both cooked and raw.

It's extremely popular in Japan where it's known as busashi. It's basically minced finely and served with grated garlic. Pretty decent eats.

I've got a picture on my PC but I don't think I can post it in this forum.

You want to make sure you ask for that really carefully, I would say.

[Sergey]

As an aside; I was in Milan a couple of years ago at a fine food fair as a guest of the Milanese Chamber of Commerce. One of the excursions on the trip was a visit to a local salami producer.

Unbeknown to me at the time, Lombardy is basically the unofficial salami capital of the world. They produce hundreds, if not thousands of different varieties. Anyway, we were allowed to taste this particular producers wares and were asked afterwards which ones we preferred. Several of us selected the same salami as being a stand-out. It transpired that it was 40% donkey meat and 60% wild boar. If you were to label it as that here in the UK, no one would buy it.

The UK is opposite of how food works everywhere else in Europe. There, good things to eat start in the kitchens of those who grow and husband good things to cook. The best restaurants in Italy, France and Spain look out over countryside. The march of gastronomy tramps from the field to the town. In Britain, all the really innovative food is made in cities. Well, one city. London. And chefs have to beg and bribe to get the peasantry to produce raw ingredients that haven't had their beaks cut off or been chemically peeled. Stroll round any farmers' market and wonder at the national shame that is home-made Blighty grub.

Feed me horse and donkey any day of the week :agree:

[Phil D. Rolls]

Feed me horse and donkey any day of the week :agree:

We often take in language students from Italy. I always have a wee chuckle when they baulk at the thought of Haggis. I never mention the stuff they put in their sausages, but I do draw attention to the fact they are partial to a McDonalds.

[Hainan Hibs]

It is interesting how ideas about food are different around the world. When I spent time in China my ex-girlfriend told me she couldn't believe I would eat Haggis, while we both casually tucked into a plate of dog.

[steakbake]

We often take in language students from Italy. I always have a wee chuckle when they baulk at the thought of Haggis. I never mention the stuff they put in their sausages, but I do draw attention to the fact they are partial to a McDonalds.

What's the I-talian for "eyelids and hooves"?

[Houchy]

Heard it's very lean and tasty.

Thing is in our culture we see horses as pets and like most pets are not edible food, but what about the people who have pot bellied pigs as pets but are still happy to eat pork. We have canine teeth for a reason, we're omnivores and that's how we survive as a species.

I have no problem eating horse meat, or any kind of meat within reason, remember the scandal years ago about certain chinese restaurants serving cat instead of chicken, well no one was any the wiser until it was exposed.

Ghengis Khan in Leith serves up a varied amount of wierd meats, ostrich, zebra etc, nobody bats an eyelid about that because these animals are seen as wid and not pets, it's all in the mind.

Kublai Kahns:agree:

[steakbake]

Kublai Kahns:agree:

Nah, he meant wee Genghis McKhan. The lad who hangs around in the lidl car park?

Some of the meat he can get a hold of for you.... Makes you wonder how he does it. Apparently he nearly got caught on his last visit to Blair Drummond and he's barred from the Zoo.

Next time I'm buying, I'll let you know.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Nah, he meant wee Genghis McKhan. The lad who hangs around in the lidl car park?

Some of the meat he can get a hold of for you.... Makes you wonder how he does it. Apparently he nearly got caught on his last visit to Blair Drummond and he's barred from the Zoo.

Next time I'm buying, I'll let you know.

His brother Phil works as tea boy in the cafe in the Community Centre.

[heretoday]

There used to be a famous racehorse called L'Escargot. Has he been in the freezer all these years?

[Houchy]

Nah, he meant wee Genghis McKhan. The lad who hangs around in the lidl car park?

Some of the meat he can get a hold of for you.... Makes you wonder how he does it. Apparently he nearly got caught on his last visit to Blair Drummond and he's barred from the Zoo.

Next time I'm buying, I'll let you know.

:faf::faf::faf:

[Pretty Boy]

I eat have eaten horse meat a fair few times, think it's pretty decent.

Over the years i've eaten a huge number of 'exotic' meats including: crocodile, gazelle, kangaroo, ostrich, python, starlings, dog, snails and frog. Some are good, some aren't.

I've also tried to eat a deep fried scorpion and a deep fried tarantula but wasn't able to swallow either.

I quite enjoy trying new things so wouldn't rule out trying anything once.

[--------]

In the Andes they serve guinea pig. They have them running around, and you can choose the one you want, like choosing your lobster out of the tank.

http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/how-to-eat-a-guinea-pig

http://baconhaikus.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/guinea_pig1.jpg

[J-C]

Kublai Kahns:agree:


That's the one, ta! :greengrin

[Houchy]

Worst thing I ever had was when I was working in Sardinia and had a cheese that had live maggots in it. It was f****** rank!!! I didn't fancy it but I couldn't really refuse. Wish I bloody did though:jamboak:

[Fantic]

Kublai Kahns:agree:

Now serving crocodile!

[Houchy]

Now serving crocodile!

I thought they always served crocodile in there... at least there was one at the table beside me. boom boom.

No, in all seriousness, I was in a couple of years ago and i'm pretty certain that Crocodile was in one of their bowls.:confused:

[Fantic]

I thought they always served crocodile in there... at least there was one at the table beside me. boom boom.

No, in all seriousness, I was in a couple of years ago and i'm pretty certain that Crocodile was in one of their bowls.:confused:

Never been in. I walk passed the sign every day and it says 'now serving crocodile'.

When i think about it that signs been up for years.:greengrin

[CropleyWasGod]

Never been in. I walk passed the sign every day and it says 'now serving crocodile'.

When i think about it that signs been up for years.:greengrin

I went in there the other day and asked for a crocodile sandwich to take away.

.... jacket on.....

"and make it snappy".

[LeithWalkHibby]

Can't beat pressed dog.
Tastes a bit like chicken mind...

http://www.thechumslick.com/media/users/mssharky/7.14.08-presseddog.jpg

[Mixu62]

Horse meat? Nah, I've heard it gives you the trotts.


I'll get me coat.

[Hainan Hibs]

Worst thing I ever had was when I was working in Sardinia and had a cheese that had live maggots in it. It was f****** rank!!! I didn't fancy it but I couldn't really refuse. Wish I bloody did though:jamboak:

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus, I would've died!:bitchy: I hate maggots (unneeded info but the hatred comes from some horror movie when some insane man was being ate by the things) :boo hoo:

[Rory89]

My dad briefly worked in Kazakhstan years ago and when I was staying with him in London a couple of years ago we had to go to some family event of a Kazakhstani man he became friends with. I have to say their food was absolutely banging, but the one bit I wasn't keen on was horse meat.

My dad told me to eat it as they'd be insulted if I didn't (why do people from other countries have this attitude, if someone from Kazakhstan refused to eat a fried pizza supper or chips, cheese and curry sauce I'd understand completely), but I really didn't like it. It was really, really salty, is this how others have found it?

It wasn't a psychological thing because it was horse or anything like that, I just thought it was minging.

[AndyM_1875]

Can't beat pressed dog.
Tastes a bit like chicken mind...

http://www.thechumslick.com/media/users/mssharky/7.14.08-presseddog.jpg

Seeing stuff like that reminds me of the time I was in Vietnam and offended a local I was chatting to. He said dog was very good to eat.
I said 'I ain't eating something I'd take for a walk' and he got all arsey.

Finished off by telling him I'd rather cut his dick off and fry it and stick it between 2 slices of bread than eat dog meat. Didn't take it well.....:devil:

[Houchy]

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus, I would've died!:bitchy: I hate maggots (unneeded info but the hatred comes from some horror movie when some insane man was being ate by the things) :boo hoo:

I've just googled it just now and it brought back some horrible memories. There's a page that says that if you want to eat it without the maggots, you can place the cheese in a plastic bag then when theystart getting deprived of oxygen, they literally "leap out of he cheese making a pitter patter sound":jamboak:

Gordon Ramsay had some on The "f" Word and he said it was disgusting. There were flies walking across the table.

Absolutely rank.:agree:

[jae]

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus, I would've died!:bitchy: I hate maggots (unneeded info but the hatred comes from some horror movie when some insane man was being ate by the things) :boo hoo:

Off topic but my wife works in the vascular surgery ward at the ERI.

They still use maggots in some cases to treat infected wounds.

Wee blighters are put in a dressing and they munch away on the rotten flesh.

:jamboak: :jamboak: :jamboak:

[Houchy]

'Moan the Maggots!!!:greengrin

See, they eat us and reproduce so that we can eat them in a manky cheese.

It's a "i'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" type relationship.

[greenlex]

You want to make sure you ask for that really carefully, I would say.
:faf: