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Horse meat-gate very nearly hit one of the big burger chains, with high street meat shop Burger King admitting to finding horse DNA in burgers at one of its suppliers. It has apologised, saying none of the dodgy meat actually made it into customers’ gobs.
The horse DNA was found in the Irish Silvercrest facility, which has been linked to some of the other shocking horse-burger discoveries of late. BK says its in-house tests for horse DNA in its products came back negative, with only the batch intercepted at Silvercrest testing positive.
The blame has been placed on the rather grim concept of “filler” meat products Silvercrest obtained from Poland, which appear to be made up of a combination of beef and horse off cuts. Cheese sandwiches all round today. [Sky]
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What the hell is wrong with people? Horse meat is lovely. Horse steaks are great, they’re less fatty, more flavorful and more protein than beef.
I WOULD PREFER HORSE BURGERS!
There’s nothing technically wrong with Horse meat, but when people go into a BK and ask for “100% flame-grilled beef” in their Whopper, it’s kinda what they’re expecting.
Just like I don’t want seal in my fish ‘n’ chips.
When you say in their Whopper, do you mean in their Clopper?
…and that, Chris, is why you write the articles and not us.
I’d be pretty annoyed if I found Seal in my Fish ‘n’ chips too!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(musician)
Now c’mon, that’s getting a little crazy…
“Kiss from a rose on bed”
Same here, Dolphin on the other hand, yum.
Why the big fuss, horse, cow, pig, chicken, who cares as long as it tastes good
If the wanna test DNA I think the should target those Indian restaurants that sell “meat curry”
Named meat 10p extra.
Horse meat is probably the best thing found in their burgers.
True!
Since BK was bought (at least the majority of it’s stock) by a Brazilian 3G Capital, it was natural to see horse meat in their burgers. Horse meat is widely consumed and appreciated in Brazil.
I have seen a lot of comments about people mad at the killing of horses for food. This is moral snobbery. Why is it OK to kill and eat cows and pigs, but not horses (or even dogs, for that matter)?
The issue of not getting what you pay for is fair enough but let’s leave aside the issue of the ‘morality’ of eating horse meat.
what about pandas? is that ok?
Might as well put em to some use.
Sure compare an endangered species to a more common one, that makes sense…
well, my point was that you can’t leave morality out of eating meat as proposed by the OP. some animals are sacred in some religions, whatever, their choice. i have read of dogs, elephants, and even gorillas being eaten in some places in the world. it is a personal thing and ones own ethics/morality/beliefs come into it, so to suggest people are being snobs because they choose to eat one meat and not another is simplistic and quite frankly a load of s**t.
Personally I reckon most people upset are just idiots. Sure it’s fair enough if it conflicts with your religion or are close to horses. Most people probably don’t like it coz they’ve just not experienced in eating horse meat. There are worse things to worry about what they’re eating than horse meat and if you’re looking to eat burgers you aren’t really hoping to eat the best of meat and should be glad it’s included (ok maybe not necessarily but still…). Of course it shouldn’t have been advertised as pure beef in places where it has been sold. So apart from some reasons, there’s not really any reason to reject meat from certain animals for the general public.
“So apart from some reasons, there’s not really any reason to reject meat from certain animals for the general public.”
rubbish.
Why, what makes horses so special to most people? (Excluding religion)
i don’t know, they are too close to my little ponies? if people don’t want to eat rabbit because they are ‘too cute’, then that’s fine too. if people don’t want to eat spiders because they are ‘icky’ then that’s also fine. it might not be sensible or logical, but then what is?
basically eating meat (if at all) is an ethical choice. ethics is fairly interchangeable with morality. that is all i am trying to say. if you can’t see that (or the OP), then i have nothing else to add.
If you have ethical reasons for certain species then become a vegetarian otherwise it’s speciesism and makes you no better than hitler! (totally not overexagerating)
I mean think of the cute baby animals we eat ):
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rQKO0vmX2rI/TywJzqI907I/AAAAAAAAAIc/W2vIUtenU_w/s1600/PigletCute.jpg
But that’s ok as long as it’s not a horse!
that is not necessarily true either. anyway, since you’ve godwinned it, case closed you win.
Meat is meat. If it hadn’t been tested, nobody would’ve noticed the difference. If you like the taste of Burger King; you’re still going to eat there despite this.
Honestly? Makes me want a Burger King right now..
I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.
Everyone says that yet when horse does show up in our food we go all “eeuurgghh!”
So when they say “100% Angus burgers”, they’re actually refering to the a horse called “Angus” and not a breed of cattle?
Damn…
I better steer clear from faggots then…
No, it’s actually a bloke called “Angus” in the burgers. But since it’s not horse meat, it’s okay…
I read a story about some poor bugger falling into a mincing machine…
His surname was “Micoatup”…
Wonder if it’s same fellow…
I had a horse haunch steak the other day; it was a little livery.
Jokes aside it was a little like a cross between steak and liver. Well bloody too.
Again I would’ve said the problem is the religious grounds of this ‘filler meat’ stuff? Google tells me Jews can’t eat horsemeat (or shellfish?!).