[Closed] One of our own is linked to this horsemeat scandal!! Shame on you Peter Poddy...

Pitch forks at the ready, get him lads!

I made that joke 15 hours ago. 😛

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/todmordon-in-the-news#post-4684111

In Todmorden too though eh? Are STW implicated?

Personally I'm more disappointed we've not had a DrP Horse Pie recipe, with associated pictures. You're slacking 😀

So you did!! You get a 'findus' fee for that...

Come on Pete - own up!

DrP

You neighrly got in there before me.

Had one of those lasagnes last night. Still got a bit between my teeth...

Ahh crap..........

#rumbled

Thought Pete Poddy was in the south these days.

Is horsemeat actually illegal in the uk?
Or is it meat not fit for human consumption has been made into burgers and it just happens to be horsemeat?

Is horsemeat actually illegal in the uk?

You're asking like I should KNOW this!?!?! 😉

Thought Pete Poddy was in the south these days.

I've now lived in the South for longer than the Midlands. I'm not a Northerner. Never have been. It's grim up North etc.... 🙂

if you were told there was horsemeat in the food, at least you would be able to make a choice about eating it or not. The fault is in that it fails labeling laws and thats what the Gov can argue from a legal perspective.

Had one of those lasagnes last night. Still got a bit between my teeth...

Gives me the trots

Is horsemeat actually illegal in the uk?
Or is it meat not fit for human consumption has been made into burgers and it just happens to be horsemeat?

It's perfectly legal, it's just we don't traditionaly eat it, hence it's cheep.

If they stuck it on the shelves at £4/kg (apparently 1/3rd the cost of beef) for good steak I'd buy it. It might save a lot of people on low incomes from having to resort to "sausage" (note that the value ranges don't even contain enough 'meat' to use it in the title, and sausage meat is usualy pretty poor to start with.

[i]hence it's cheep.[/i]

*insert Budgie joke here*

Is horsemeat actually illegal in the uk?
Or is it meat not fit for human consumption has been made into burgers and it just happens to be horsemeat?

The legal issue is that its being miss-labelled. Horse meat is of low value as nobody buys it, by passing it off as beef its being sold for at least 5 times its value.

Mis-labelling food is rife its just that 'horse' funnier and big brands being caught out has made it newsworthy. The olive oil you buy might not be olive oil. Saffron might not be saffron. A lot of the fraud happens in the wholesale to catering market things like ham substitute and cheese substitute and things that look like sausages but can't labelled as sausages are sold honestly at the wholesale stage but described as 'ham' and 'cheese' and 'sausage' on the menu.

Some of it is just sharp practice by small traders but theres a large organised crime element higher up the supply chain, also and thats where the bigger brands are getting stung.

No time for lunch today - I'll just grab something on the hoof.

As its cheap we should be using it - properly labelled. People don't seem to notice it in cheap products so its fine there (for the poor?!). A decent cut tastes OK though? They eat it in France so guess so, anyway, I'd give it a go if the right price

If they stuck it on the shelves at £4/kg (apparently 1/3rd the cost of beef) for good steak I'd buy it.

Me too. I wonder if this controversy might actually increase sales of horse. 🙂

All you who say it's not a problem are just a bunch of neigh-sayers

I had a horse burger for my lunch. The waitress asked if I wanted anything on it, so I said a fiver each way.

Seriously though, it's a shame of Pete Boddy is implicated. He used to do an absolutely awesome hog-roast. Mmmm apple sauce....

Beef eaters don't have to call their food choice "Cow meat", why should horse eaters be discriminated against?
Cameron needs to end this inequality now and re-define the word beef to include both cow and horse meat.
😉

Eating that stuff might give you the trots!

Or is it meat not fit for human consumption has been made into burgers and it just happens to be horsemeat?

Of course lots of people will be disgusted about the fact that it's horse, same people would probably prefer some dodgy as **** beef over top quality dobbin. But that's not the main issue (imho etc).

*unfit for consumption

Never understood why huge areas of the Western USA are devoted to cattle ranching. Buffalo are more suited to the environment, taste delicious and are easily farmed. I seem to remember you get more meat per acre of buffalo on marginal land out west.

But no, people have to have beef, cos that's what they eat. Pillocks.

I once ate in a donkey restaurant in China, I didn't know when I went in but when I found out figured when in Rome....

There's nothing wrong with horsemeat.................

.............it's all part of a stable diet.

Every little helps.....

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Or should that be every LIDL helps? 😆

Horses four courses....

not sure I'd want to be saddled with horsemeat as a mane meal.

mudshark - Member

I once ate in a donkey restaurant in China, I didn't know when I went in but when I found out figured when in Rome....

I'm still waiting for the punchline on this one 🙂

Life imitating art?

Hilary Briss:
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Peter Boddy:
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I had a kebab in Aberyswyth on Saturday. Throat's a bit sore, and my voice is a little hoarse.

Actually, I did have a kebab on Saturday night in Machynlleth. Lamb shish, but you never know.

And I have eaten horse in France, was very good!

I have eaten a number of other interesting meats too - zebra, crocodile, kangaroo, camel, various types of antelope, frogs legs.....does it really make much difference.

Probably better to have a good cut of horse in your kebab than the nipples and ring-pieces that class as meat in low cost sausages!

Oooh, is that him?

I think I've been for a pint with him:
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According to the local paper, he says he innocent: [url= http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/local/peter-boddy-denies-wrongdoing-1-5404399 ]Link.[/url]

Zulu that was precisely my line of thought...

Actually I can't help thinking that once the current excess of indignant outrage has settled Tesco/ASDA/Aldi and Co' might consider a few new equine product lines... You know stuff like:

"Beef Burgers - with up to 30% Horsey goodness"

"Pony Lasagne"

"Horse Twizzlers"

All viable products IMO...

One of the main concerns may be regarding the use of medicines in horses particularly from the UK that are banned in animals destined for human consumption.

Bute is widely used and apparently can cause serious problems if people take it.

Some of these puns are are awful. Talk about flogging a dead horse.

And for junior its My Lidl Pony