Horse chips

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dumbass@aussie.zone · 49 pts · 279d (5 replies)

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
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d

I have definitely eaten horse before. Many times in fact. Knowingly.

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 279d (10 replies)

That'll go great with a horseburger, and a horse coke to wash it all down.

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 279d (9 replies)

Horse Pepsi okay?

themaninblack@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 279d (5 replies)

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 (1 reply)

Nay

GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 278d

Neigh*

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 278d
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realitista@lemmus.org · 27 pts · 279d (3 replies)

As someone who's been to Kazakhstan 25 years ago, you're not missing much.

rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 279d (2 replies)

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 (5 replies)

Horse meat is pretty tasty.

ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 279d (3 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (7 replies)

Fun fact, here around it is quite common to eat horse meat.

Damage@feddit.it · 17 pts · 279d (6 replies)

I just ate it, minutes ago. Ground horse meat, mixed with mustard and capers.

🇮🇹

zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 279d (2 replies)

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 (2 replies)

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 (10 replies)

Tesco horse meat scandal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21418342

BreadOven@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d (6 replies)

Didn't Ikea also have one a while back?

RecallMadness@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 279d (5 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)
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BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 278d

It's more a false advertising thing than a moral thing.

JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 278d (2 replies)

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 (1 reply)

"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 (10 replies)

Is horse meat illegal? Why?

residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 279d (2 replies)

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 (4 replies)

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
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 (1 reply)

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 (6 replies)

horse meat is illegal? ive eaten horse meat before.

Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 279d (5 replies)

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 (2 replies)

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 (1 reply)

"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 (4 replies)

we eat horse (infrequently) where I'm from. If prepared properly it's delicious

NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d (3 replies)

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 (3 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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
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."

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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 (2 replies)

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
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
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