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The horsemeat scandal trots on thanks to our French friends. After Tesco’s burger blunder, the Food Standards Agency has been looking into supposedly “beef” meals. Turns out, Findus Beef Lasagne was in fact horse lasagne, or between 60 to 100 per cent horse, to be exact.
The frozen meals were provided for Findus by the French food supplier Comigel and, again, while horsemeat isn’t actually illegal on its own, labelling it as beef certainly is. The FSA’s currently warning people basically not to eat anything manufactured by Comigel, as there’s a possibility the horsemeat could contain a horse drug called phenylbutazone, aka ‘bute’, that’s dangerous to humans. Tesco, Aldi, and Findus have all withdrawn frozen products from sale, as horse-gate continues to gallop hard.
The FSA reckons this is “highly likely” a criminal endeavour, rather than a cock-up at the suppliers, and is currently investigating further. It seems the horse has truly bolted on this one, ending up in the mincer with Tesco, Aldi and Findus. [Telegraph]
well nice them….
Had a Findus Lasagne the other week, it gave me the trotts.
psy……………duck……………….
http://files.sharenator.com/Psyduck_psyduck_466818_1024_768-s1024x768-56465.jpg
But Shirley, someone would’ve noticed there was no cheese or pasta?
Don’t call me Shirley.
This can’t even be classed as “Horse” in inverted commas it is literally horsie lasagne.
You’re neigh wrong there.
You think so? No foaling around?
So bored of these puns. I can’t horse around here anymore. If this keeps up I won’t be here furlong
Get off your high horse man, and just saddle up for a few more. In other new I’m having a mare.
Horse.
laughed so hard, wee came out.
I completely agree. If this keeps up, we’ll all go hoarse.
This is complete horsesh*t!
The presence of this horse drug is what should be highlighted here. This is the problem, not the horse meat. I don’t see a problem in being given one of the best and healthiest meat you can eat instead of beef…
It’s not really a problem. The issue is all about labelling and the meat coming from a dodgy source. Maybe after all this is over we’ll actually have legitimate horsemeat products.
It’s the fact that it’s labeled as beef but is in fact horse that is the problem, not the fact that its horse. Unless you’re one of those people that seem oddly obsessed with horses that is…you know those women who talk about how incredible their horse is ever day and how the bond between them and their horse is so strong (you’ve all got atleast one of these people on your Facebook feed :-p).
I can say I’ve eaten ‘orse (on purpose) and it was delicious.
Yes, incorrect labelling is an issue for sure, but not as important as the fact that it might contain dangerous products.
Actually I just believe that this topic is so popular because we are talking about horse meat. I’m sure that if a product had been identified as containing bull meat instead of beef for example, no one would care.
It hasn’t been found in the product they are worried that it may be found if that horses used were not supposed to be used for human consumption
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Re6pZri8Gw
Duck L’Orange…?
Up to 100% and no more.
This is still a mane issue.
HOLY SHIT I HAVE JUST DA VINCI CODED THIS BITCH!
Lasagneigh = Lasag + Neigh
Neigh is something stupid horses say.
So WTF is this mysterious Lasag they are feeding us!?!?!?!?!?
i would have thought that was obvious its and anagram of Slag with a cockney accent hence Slaag
you are eating slags
that should reduce benefit claimants then and free up some social housing
+1
In other news, Findus reveals there are no fish fingers in their fish food products.
Fish fingers found to be up to 100 per cent horse….
Aha! That would explain them slashing the price of Fish Fingers from 8/1 to 3/1.
Do you like Fish Sticks ?
First it was Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Iceland and Dunnes Stores. Then it was Sainsbury’s, Asda and the Co-op. Then Burger King. And now Findus.
Note who hasn’t been on it yet? Marks & Spencer and Waitrose…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/08/how-horsemeat-scandal-unfolded-timeline
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/16/article-2262961-16F9D751000005DC-903_634x535.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/16/article-2262961-16F9E4C3000005DC-748_634x183.jpg
You get what you pay for?
This isn’t just any Lasagne, this is a premium, hand made Lasagne that once won the Chelteam Gold Cup
“Cheltenham”
Yeah, saw that as I pressed Submit, hoped nobody would notice, was typing too quickly *hangs head*
All of the products involved have so far been at the ‘budget’ end of the spectrum. M&S and Waitrose stock fewer such products than the other supermarkets, so it’s the law of large numbers in action I suppose…
Tesco’s new quarter panda cheese burgers are hitting the shelves in March.
That’s not funny, Pandas are cute, horses are scary (they have psycho eyes!)
I wouldn’t say horses are scary, but they are unimaginably stupid which makes them dangerous. “Oh look, a tractor, I’m fine with that…HOLYFUCKBALLS A FLYING CARRIER BAG!!!! PANIC!!!!!”
True fact: I nearly lost a nipple thanks to a horse.
Did you forget to say, “Bitch! No biting or scratching!”?
that’s a video I don’t want to see
yum
Yawn… horse / cow, not that different, and unless you’re 100% organic your cow meat has plenty of drugs used in it’s production anyway.
This is just cheap sensationalist news appealing to the squeamish who think a horse is “nicer” than a cow. If this is story turning your stomach stop being a hypocrite and go veggie, if not, suck it up and eat your nice horse lasagne/burger.
Organic food has chemicals and pesticides in it too, just natural ones, in fact some of the natural ones are more dangerous then the artificial ones.
Who buys ready meals like this anyways? I just make it myself, only ever takes like 30 mins before putting it in the oven.
yeah.
That “meal” thing looks filthy.
That’s 30 minutes longer than I want to waste spent cooking.
I find it quite fun to do, I only got into cooking though because I was sick of everyone else not cleaning up after themselves.
This is what happens when food companies bride ( erm donate ) politicians to reduce oversight and regulations. Yet again big business stealing from the people of the UK and the government turns a blind eye.
Its the zebra in the bar-code you want to watch out for – worms are unpleasant
Back in 2001 when the French blocked the import of our Beef sales went down from 540m to 0. This caused some Beef farmers to go out of business and cost the economy millions. Question is will we or should we now do the same with French meat products?
Nice name you have there.
It’s processed meat that’s the problem, not main cuts, and this isn’t so much a health scare as a misrepresentation issue. Also, Irish meat products have been as much to blame as the French so far, and they may both be sourcing their ‘filler meat’ (eugh) from somewhere else on the continent.
Just pointing out that there are a few key differences here, but seeing as Silvercrest and Comigel have already lost some of their largest customers, it must be hitting them hard.
Who the hell is eating anything made by Findus in the first place?
I still like their Cheese and Ham Crispy Pancakes
No doubt made from Horse smegma and Ukrainian children
So that’s how they make it so creamy!
i said exactly that to a friend when i first read about it, after saying “is findus still going?” those crispy pancakes were rank when i last tried them and that was in the early 90s
seriously why do people care about this? they eat horse in tons of countries, its just here people seem to have an issue with it and im not sure why. plus did people really think cheap sausages, burgers and other mince products were 100% prime beef really? even if it was all beef itd probably just be made up of a*seholes and necks