Pretty much. I had really good horse meat sashimi in Japan and it tasted pretty much identical to elk or deer. It was tasty, but not something I'd feel like going out of my way for.
Yeah it's not far off deer or springbok or kudu or other types of game. Very sinewy. I prefer the others a bit over horse though. Horse tastes a bit more "dirty" to me.
I heard from my dad that back in the day some butchers used to pass it off as some cuts of beef. It's not like they couldn't sell horse meat, since it's legal (there's some health requirements) but beef is supposed to be more tender and tasty, thus more expensive.
It's just not a particularly desired type of meat, so you don't see it often at butchers nowadays.
Nobody in the supply chain was being overly cautious about what their suppliers were providing them. Resulting in horse meat being found in loads of places.
People around me stopped buying Findus not because of the scandal, but because they just didn't taste as good once they changed their recipe.
I can't say if it was the horsemeat, but the ready meals tasted better before. I don't know how to word this without sounding awkward.
We of course have our usual patchwork of different local and state laws, and I believe it is outright banned in some parts of the country
But overall, federally, I believe it's more of an issue that there's so little demand for it that no slaughterhouse for horses has bothered to open and go through the necessary USDA inspections and such to process horses for human consumption.
I believe, if you really wanted to, you could go slaughter a horse yourself and feed it to your friends and family and be totally in the clear, but if you try to sell that horse meat anywhere you'd have the USDA beating down your door (not a lawyer, don't go feeding your friends horse based on my understanding of the issue)
As for the cultural reasons that Americans don't want to eat horses and why it is outright banned in some parts of the country, I can't really comment on that. I'd eat a horse and wouldn't feel the least bit bad about it.
In the US it's seen as taboo to eat animals that provide labor or companionship to humans, it's almost like a betrayal. This includes horses, donkeys, dogs and cats.
The Tongans around here used to eat l, and probably still do, eat horse. I was working graveyard with a guy and he offered some of his food. Turns out it was a horse meat dish cooked in milk to tenderize it. It was sweeter then beef, wasn't bad, but wasn't great either. At least cooked like that.
I bet horses are way less annoying than cows, too. A nearby meadow regularly has cows, drives me up the walls sometimes (they can be pretty loud, and their frequencies really carry).
Where I come from, South Sardinia, it's a delicacy; very common.
Buy it fresh, very thinly sliced, cook shortly with garlic, Evo oil and parsley. It's lovely!
I've ridden horses for years, but I don't mind eating horse.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel more kinship with cows than with horses. Cows are fairly intelligent, like regular pack animals. Horses are afraid or everything all the time, it's exhausting.
Of course I eat some cow every now and then, but if I had to choose, I'd eat horses. They're not as worthy.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I don't get this. I think all animal mistreatment is bad, and I try to reduce how much meat I eat, but I still eat it. I've never understood the attachment people have to horses where they won't eat it. Most people have probably never seen a horse in person, let alone ridden one. I have, and it wouldn't bother me. I'd eat dog too for that matter, and I have had a pet dog and love dogs. As long as they aren't mistreated (which they will be if farmed on a large scale, but that's another issue) then why does it bother you? As far as I'm aware, it's really only an English and American thing, and particularly American.
In addition, I'm assuming you eat cow/chicken/etc? How does their mistreatment not make you avoid eating them? Shouldn't that be more important than what type of meat it is?
"And since only very few if any of our customers have ever actually tasted horse, they'll never think to question the shit we're feeding them. It's perfect."
I had these. They were pretty gnarly. There are two other flavors, maggot cheese and puffer fish I think. None of them made me think I was missing out by not eating the real thing.
85 Comments
dumbass@aussie.zone · 49 pts · 279d
The fun thing is, you've probably already eaten horse.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 279d
A horse is a horse of course of course and no one should eat a horse of course unless of course the horse is the main dinner course
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 7 pts · 279d
Frikandel
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 279d
Yayy, lasagna!
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 277d
A lot of Brits have anyway!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d
I have definitely eaten horse before. Many times in fact. Knowingly.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 279d
That'll go great with a horseburger, and a horse coke to wash it all down.
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 279d
Horse Pepsi okay?
themaninblack@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 279d
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 279d
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 14 pts · 279d
Much as I'd like things to be otherwise, some people needs to be locked up for the sake of public safety. This is one of those people.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 279d
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 279d
There's an entire YouTube video of him doing this.
Killian is a treasure.
bumblefumble@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 279d
I can only recommend looking up Killian Experience on YouTube.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 279d
Nay
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 278d
Neigh*
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 278d
realitista@lemmus.org · 27 pts · 279d
As someone who's been to Kazakhstan 25 years ago, you're not missing much.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 279d
What did it taste like? I'm imagining that it tastes a lot like deer
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 279d
Pretty much. I had really good horse meat sashimi in Japan and it tasted pretty much identical to elk or deer. It was tasty, but not something I'd feel like going out of my way for.
realitista@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 279d
Yeah it's not far off deer or springbok or kudu or other types of game. Very sinewy. I prefer the others a bit over horse though. Horse tastes a bit more "dirty" to me.
tomiant@piefed.social · 21 pts · 279d
Horse meat is pretty tasty.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 279d
I heard from my dad that back in the day some butchers used to pass it off as some cuts of beef. It's not like they couldn't sell horse meat, since it's legal (there's some health requirements) but beef is supposed to be more tender and tasty, thus more expensive.
It's just not a particularly desired type of meat, so you don't see it often at butchers nowadays.
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 279d
That's interesting because in fact the only times I had it was as a spread, many many years ago. It's got this slightly gamey taste, great on toast.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Horse meat is consumed regularly in some Central-Asian countries. From what I've heard, it's lean as hell, moreso than lamb.
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 278d
It is!
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 279d
I don't think I've (knowingly) eaten it as anything but cold smoked cold cuts. Those are damn good but so is probably any meat
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 279d
Fun fact, here around it is quite common to eat horse meat.
Damage@feddit.it · 17 pts · 279d
I just ate it, minutes ago. Ground horse meat, mixed with mustard and capers.
🇮🇹
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 279d
Oh, I did not know it was also common in Italy. I knew about donkey meat in salami. Good to know!
Damage@feddit.it · 6 pts · 279d
We eat donkey in many different ways, not just salame. Same for horse meat.
comador@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
Also Mexico. Tacos de caballo are very common here in Baja California.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 0 pts · 279d
Are you from Verona by any chance?
Damage@feddit.it · 1 pts · 279d
Nope
iamanurd@midwest.social · 1 pts · 278d
I had some near Florence earlier this year.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 279d
Tesco horse meat scandal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21418342
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
Didn't Ikea also have one a while back?
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 279d
Iirc, It was a national problem. Not just Tesco.
Nobody in the supply chain was being overly cautious about what their suppliers were providing them. Resulting in horse meat being found in loads of places.
NecroticEuphoria@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 279d
Turns out it was a European problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal
Back when it happened, I didn't really follow the news properly and thought it was only a German thing.
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d
Interesting. I'll have to read that.
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d
Ah, interesting. I'd try it haha.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -1 pts · 278d
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 278d
It's more a false advertising thing than a moral thing.
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 278d
People around me stopped buying Findus not because of the scandal, but because they just didn't taste as good once they changed their recipe.
I can't say if it was the horsemeat, but the ready meals tasted better before. I don't know how to word this without sounding awkward.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 278d
"It was tastier when it was horse"?
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 278d
That's the general consensus around my friend circles, over the years. It did spawn the short lived joke, "I'm so hungry I could eat a Findus" though.
Hagdos@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 279d
Is horse meat illegal? Why?
residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 279d
Not sure. In Begium I've seen butcher shops that specialise in horse meat and in Korea there are restaurants where horse meat is served.
miseducator@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
Yeah, I live in Korea and bring horse jerky back to the US as gifts. Don't think customs would like finding it though.
veroxii@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 279d
I've had horse meat in Italy. Nice with polenta.
Fondots@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 279d
In the US at least it's sort of a legal grey area
We of course have our usual patchwork of different local and state laws, and I believe it is outright banned in some parts of the country
But overall, federally, I believe it's more of an issue that there's so little demand for it that no slaughterhouse for horses has bothered to open and go through the necessary USDA inspections and such to process horses for human consumption.
I believe, if you really wanted to, you could go slaughter a horse yourself and feed it to your friends and family and be totally in the clear, but if you try to sell that horse meat anywhere you'd have the USDA beating down your door (not a lawyer, don't go feeding your friends horse based on my understanding of the issue)
As for the cultural reasons that Americans don't want to eat horses and why it is outright banned in some parts of the country, I can't really comment on that. I'd eat a horse and wouldn't feel the least bit bad about it.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 279d
In the US it's seen as taboo to eat animals that provide labor or companionship to humans, it's almost like a betrayal. This includes horses, donkeys, dogs and cats.
Damage@feddit.it · 5 pts · 279d
Apparently you guys slaughter quite a lot of horses, but you probably just export the meat, mostly.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 279d
The Tongans around here used to eat l, and probably still do, eat horse. I was working graveyard with a guy and he offered some of his food. Turns out it was a horse meat dish cooked in milk to tenderize it. It was sweeter then beef, wasn't bad, but wasn't great either. At least cooked like that.
TomMasz@piefed.social · 2 pts · 279d
It used to be found in a lot of cheap canned dog food, but now most dogs eat better than I did as a kid.
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
For the Cowboys it's like eating a pet, which is understandable.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 279d
I bet horses are way less annoying than cows, too. A nearby meadow regularly has cows, drives me up the walls sometimes (they can be pretty loud, and their frequencies really carry).
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 279d
horse meat is illegal? ive eaten horse meat before.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 279d
What does it taste like? I imagine it's tough as hell and tastes like a bland, overcooked pork chop, but with a mild hay smell.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 279d
It's not tough at all. You know how beef tastes like beef? It's like that, only horse.
Amroth@feddit.it · 5 pts · 278d
Where I come from, South Sardinia, it's a delicacy; very common. Buy it fresh, very thinly sliced, cook shortly with garlic, Evo oil and parsley. It's lovely!
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 279d
it was really tough, i ate it once because my grandfather believed it helps with people with low iron.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 279d
"So do beets and iron pills, grandpa."
"Ain't the same thing, pussy.."
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 279d
lol
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 278d
we eat horse (infrequently) where I'm from. If prepared properly it's delicious
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d
I'm in Japan right now and have seen it available a few times. I just can't bring myself to try it.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 278d
I've ridden horses for years, but I don't mind eating horse.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel more kinship with cows than with horses. Cows are fairly intelligent, like regular pack animals. Horses are afraid or everything all the time, it's exhausting.
Of course I eat some cow every now and then, but if I had to choose, I'd eat horses. They're not as worthy.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 278d
Maybe I'm just weird, but I don't get this. I think all animal mistreatment is bad, and I try to reduce how much meat I eat, but I still eat it. I've never understood the attachment people have to horses where they won't eat it. Most people have probably never seen a horse in person, let alone ridden one. I have, and it wouldn't bother me. I'd eat dog too for that matter, and I have had a pet dog and love dogs. As long as they aren't mistreated (which they will be if farmed on a large scale, but that's another issue) then why does it bother you? As far as I'm aware, it's really only an English and American thing, and particularly American.
In addition, I'm assuming you eat cow/chicken/etc? How does their mistreatment not make you avoid eating them? Shouldn't that be more important than what type of meat it is?
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org · 2 pts · 278d
Come on, you can't say neigh to be a bit of horse
Pat@feddit.nu · 8 pts · 278d
Horse meat isn't bad. It's not exactly a light meat, awful as sandwich meat, but quite similar to beef, actually.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d
I'd say it tastes closer to kangaroo than beef.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 278d
Ah, yes. A meat everyone can relate to. Very useful.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 278d
It's a bit too sweet for my taste.
qbus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 279d
Sabor de Soledad https://share.google/images/0ECsmoOPYjMqIOekX
recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d
This looks like something you'd find at Omega Mart
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 279d
"And since only very few if any of our customers have ever actually tasted horse, they'll never think to question the shit we're feeding them. It's perfect."
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 279d
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
fuck, I've been eating them for my horse meat for weeks now dude!
am I going to jail?
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
I had these. They were pretty gnarly. There are two other flavors, maggot cheese and puffer fish I think. None of them made me think I was missing out by not eating the real thing.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
I've never had maggot cheese, but both horse and puffer fish are pretty good.
Not good enough to go out of your way to eat them, but if you're already in an area that serves them, they're worth trying.
graycube@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
They should include endangered animal flavors and bald eagle.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 278d
I'd try them
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 278d
Need to do a whole line of those: dogs, cat, human, etc
Raccoon_Rick@altgag.net · 2 pts · 279d
Legaln’t chips
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 278d
Kazakhstani chips?
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d
Hickory smoked horse buttholes!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 279d
Ever taste an Hombre?
That's how I read it at first.......
Reiea@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 279d
I'd try it. 😆
capcool@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 279d