If you think your burger tastes a little different…….

I went to get a burger from the fridge last night, checked the best before date … And they’re off!!!!

Fabulous.

Had a Tesco piebald the other week said it contained chestnut and a bay

The fact that they think they can get away with putting horse meat in (and have been) makes you wonder what else they feel they’ve been able to get away with putting in their product.

Who knows what else they’ve been putting in other products – is this just the tip of the iceberg?

Its disgusting that food manufacturers can get away with this, but on the other hand its reassuring that they did get found out.

Soylent Green is people!

Surely it’s just a branding SNAFU… In a few months time I’m eagerly anticipating the Grand National BBQ range.

Alternatively if they name them Tesco’s Finest Continental Burgers they’ll be quids in…

I suspect foal play and call for a stewards enquiry….igmc

Did Lance Armstrong eat those burgers?

Did Lance Armstrong eat those burgers?

He’d probably eating anything, but it was the EPO that wun him the TdF.
😉

I had a Tesco burger for tea last night.

It was Champion…

This reminds me of the one curry I always avoid, the classically named ‘Meat Curry’…

supermarket burgers are a bit pony shocker!!

supermarket burgers are a bit pony shocker!!

The competitors are getting in on the act too now. Coming soon, My Lidl Pony burgers.

hamburgers is an annagram of sergar’s bum

Not sure i understand why meat eaters get so picky over what animals they will and wont eat

As a non meat eater i have managed to resist the urge to start threads on this and start questioning their diet and principles

Must be because i am preachy or something ?
yours
Non meat eater.

I’m a meat eater and for the most part I agree with that! Same with parts, why are people happy to eat some parts of the animal but not others?

To be fair 29% of any meat is pretty good for a Tesco value burger

, My Lidl Pony burgers.

Best pun so far!

why are people happy to eat some parts of the animal but not others

Personally, I don’t fancy eating the parts that have been used to filter out toxins.

Tesco burgers are officially the tastiest according to a gallop poll.. their Mascarpony cheeseburgers were a clear winner

Not sure i understand why meat eaters get so picky over what animals they will and wont eat

Yeah, I’ve avoided commenting for similar reasons.

I figure, it’s largely cultural. Different groups of people (be that countries, religions, etc) find different things acceptable. Some countries eat horse, dog, rat, guinea pig… but here in the UK we’re not likely to see a chain of Unlucky Fried Kitten stores any time soon. I think we’re averse to eating anything cute.

I wonder if the ‘horse’ thing is as much about contamination as anything else. Irrespective of whether you’re squeamish about it or not, it shouldn’t be in there, any more than lamb or pork should be.

To be fair 29% of any meat is pretty good for a Tesco value burger

wasn’t it 25% of the meat content that was horse, not 25% of the burger? In which case a miniscule amount.

When i lived in France, i ate horse. As steaks, it was tough stringy and not great. Minced and made into burgers it was fine.

My Lidl Pony burgers.

PMSL – post of the thread

This reminds me of the one curry I always avoid, the classically named ‘Meat Curry’…

I was told that that was generally Lamb, or possbily mutton.

Personally, I don’t fancy eating the parts that have been used to filter out toxins.

I would like to thank you for that as it means that the frankly delicious and nutritious parts like liver and kidney are much much cheaper than they would otherwise be.

Not sure i understand why meat eaters get so picky over what animals they will and wont eat

As a meat eater I totally agree with this. I do have lines that I won’t cross such as endagered species and stuff I don’t like the taste of but other than that pretty much everything is fair game as far as I’m concerned.

Edit:

Anyone eaten dog?

Yes. My best summary is tastless greasy lamb if I’m honest. I’d not recommend it.

wasn’t it 25% of the meat content that was horse, not 25% of the burger? In which case a miniscule amount.

I only skim-read it, but didn’t it say they’d found horse DNA rather than horse meat?

If anything, that’s more worrying. Burgers with Special Sauce?

everything is fair game

I see what you did there. (-:

The fact that they think they can get away with putting horse meat in (and have been) makes you wonder what else they feel they’ve been able to get away with putting in their product.

I did long before horses were added. that’s why there was neigh chance of me eating supermarket burgers

neigh chance of me eating supermarket burgers

2/10

I only skim-read it, but didn’t it say they’d found horse DNA rather than horse meat

meat is meat. i’d guess they could tell it was horse from the dna, rather than because bits of the burger were stamped “Shergar”

Just checked mine in the fridge – and they’re off !!!! 🙂

Sorry – just my unbridled attempt at humour! 🙂

I’d try and rein it in if I were you.

Junkyard » Not sure i understand why meat eaters get so picky over what animals they will and wont eat
As a non meat eater i have managed to resist the urge to start threads on this and start questioning their diet and principles
Must be because i am preachy or something ?
yours
Non meat eater.

As a meat eater I agree with this too.

I don’t really care what animal it is.

If its nice, I’ll eat it.
If its not, I won’t.

I’ve tried a few things that aren’t traditional in the UK, and most I have liked.
Apart from Dog, as mentioned above, it not good 😐

And as for which parts of an animal people will eat, you are missing out on some good stuff.

The pigs head has some great meat, pig cheeks are amazing !

non event.

after you have eaten african mystery meat , anything in the uk seems fine.

Horse is actually quite fine. Really lean.

as for parts – sheeps buttock bbqed and served to me in turkmenistan where its a delicacy was actually lovely – really fatty but really nice.

I’m another meat eater who doesn’t just pick on the non-cute animals.

I think it was the Dennis Leary “No Cure for Cancer” show that made me realise this many years ago;

There’s the problem. We only want to save the cute animals, don’t we? Yeah. Why don’t we just have animal auditions. Line ’em up one by one and interview them individually. “What are you?” “I’m an otter.” “And what do you do?” “I swim around on my back and do cute little human things with my hands.” “You’re free to go.” “And what are you?” “I’m a cow.” “Get in the **** truck, ok pal!” “But I’m an animal.” “You’re a baseball glove! Get on that truck!” “I’m an animal, I have rights!” “Yeah, here’s yer **** cousin [points to his leather jacket], get on the **** truck, pal!” We kill the cows to make jackets out of them and then we kill each other for the jackets we made out of the cows.

*CAUTION: Naughty words in the video clip*

“Not sure i understand why meat eaters get so picky over what animals they will and wont eat“

It’s because people like to have confidence in the trustworthiness of food producers. Things like BSE (and, resultingly, CJD with its associated deaths) happen because meat producers are under pressure by people like Tesco to produce meat at very low cost. This results in bad practices which can be a severe health issue.

The point is that regulation exists to prevent low-cost meat from being a health issue in the same way that it was with BSE and suchlike. Not everyone can afford to shop at the farmers’ market every Sunday; in fact most people can’t.

I believe there was also pork found in the burgers, and clearly that’s also an issue for people whose religion prohibits them to eat it.

Personally, while I’d happily eat horse or any red meat I can think of, I’d be pissed off if I found I’d been fraudulently sold meat such as battery chickens or crated veal. Equally, of course, I’d be pissed off if I bought beef that had been fed on sheep, because we’ve legislated to stop precisely that.

So there are several very good reasons why people find it unacceptable to buy beef and get horse and pig, and even if you’re fine with eating any old mammal, the real issue is that the trustworthiness of Tesco and its supply chain has been brought sharply into question. They don’t know where their meat has come from, they don’t know how it’s been produced, and neither do you.

Taking a broad view of eligible species for your plate isn’t remotely the same as not giving a toss about what you stick in your mouth.

Strangest meat I ate was battered / fried Tarantula. Yes really.

sold by weight in Cambodia, it was stringy mostly, bit chewy.

Horse steak in France was just a bit tough going. Frogs legs were just chickeny.

it is just another meat. its weird how most are fine to eat chicken and cows, but then get softer on rabbits and are horrified at horse. I guess these days we’re a long way up the processed food chain and are very disconnected with really what we eat.

Right, enough of this nagging, off to lunch.

So there are several very good reasons why people find it unacceptable

you’re just jealous because your old band mate got to eat so much yummy looking ‘bush tucker’ in IACGMOOH 2010

You have to wonder why the test was carried out, I suspect a member of staff of dobbin them in.

Taking a broad view of eligible species for your plate isn’t remotely the same as not giving a toss about what you stick in your mouth.

‘s pretty much what I was trying to say, only badly. Interesting reading, thanks.

Incidentally, via Twitter:

@BadgerMash
Horse meat & #tesco has completely hidden today’s serious FSA revelations about campylobacter in factory farmed chicken. #ismellarat

Least my Lidl Pony is stocked fresh.

Personally, I don’t fancy eating the parts that have been used to filter out toxins.

that stuffs awful, or something similar.

“Not sure i understand why meat eaters get so picky over what animals they will and wont eat”

I think some people are disgusted at having eaten horse and yeah they are a bit weird, btu most are probably pissed off at stuff being missold/labelled, that’s very wrong. I’m sure you’d be more than a little peeved if some vegan cakes turned out to have bacon in them.

If its nice, I’ll eat it.
If its not, I won’t.
pretty much my philosophy, but I’ve never been to a country that routinely scoffs unusual animals tho so not had the chance to eat (or be put off) snakes and insects n stuff, so dunno.

pretty much my philosophy, but I’ve never been to a country that routinely scoffs unusual animals tho so not had the chance to eat (or be put off) snakes and insects n stuff, so dunno.

Yeah, most of that stuff fits into the “if it’s not, I won’t” category to be honest 🙂

But you have to try it to know I suppose.

But insects and similar stuff have mostly been not that good in my experience.

But in terms of meat from Mammals, there is nothing that springs to mind (other than dog) that I didn’t like. And I have made a point of trying stuff that’s not traditional here.