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Anger greets 'Top Chef' episode featuring horse meat

Dell Yount

Dell Yount

Lieutenant Commander
Red Shirt
M*A*S*H - Colonel Sherman T. Potter & Sophie
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"It's a tragedy people have to eat horses, they're beautiful animals.
You ever take a peek at a cow or a pig?
They're ugly. We're doing them a favor by eating 'em .
Saves 'em the agony of looking at their reflections in the trough every morning.
But a horse, that's a noble beast.
Why, in the cavalry, a man's steed was his best friend, a real companion.
Where do people get off making pork chops out of them?
Too much killing in this world, too much death.
No respect for people, for tradition, for life.
The whole world is spinning down the tubes and nobody even seems to notice.
I don't know, I..."
(breaking off due to the looks of the others)
Anger greets 'Top Chef' episode featuring horse meat
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110517/top-chef-horse-meat-110517/
 
Horse-meat can make you look like this (at least that's what the person in the picture claims), 'nuff said. ;)

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People do get worked up over nothing, it's just horse. Then again I come from a country where we eat the animals on our coat of arms.
 
I was hoping the animal in Australia's coat of arms is the sheep, that would've been funny, but wikipedia tells me it's kangaroo and emu.
 
I used to work in the meat trade, if you live in the UK and have eaten processed meats imported from Europe, then more than likely you can answer "yes, I've eaten horse meat".

I've had horse steaks a few times and it's a very lean tasty meat.
 
Roger Wilco said:
I was hoping the animal in Australia's coat of arms is the sheep, that would've been funny, but wikipedia tells me it's kangaroo and emu.
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And it's not the Emu we eat :)

Kangaroo is a very lean meat though it can be a bit gamey as they say and an squired taste (I've had it one and didn't mind it). However it has to be served on the rare side. With Kangaroo meat there's a fine line between a tender serving and something akin to boot leather.
 
Nothing wrong with horseflesh, if cooked correcly but it dries out superfast, so is easy to overcook. Kind of like venison that way, in some ways, and no-one complains about eating Bambi.
 
Holdfast said:
Nothing wrong with horseflesh, if cooked correcly but it dries out superfast, so is easy to overcook. Kind of like venison that way, in some ways, and no-one complains about eating Bambi.
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Except those damn hippie tree-huggers.

It all comes down to cultural prejudice. I mean, meat is meat, right? I’m reminded of an episode of Taxi with a flashback scene of Latka Gravas and his mother. “Don’t go to America,” she begs her son. “It’s a terrible place. They keep dogs as pets and eat chickens!”

And remember -- when horsemeat is outlawed, only outlaws will eat horses!
 
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