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deano
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AAAAnnnnnnndddddd there off!
They're not bad. Low in fat but high in Shergar!
They gave me the trots...
...but I'm stable now.
The bar codes have traces of Zebra DNA in them apparantly.
Any more?
(For non-UK shipmates, some beefburgers sold in some big supermarkets here in the UK have been found to contain traces of horse DNA!)
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The Midge
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This thread should be consigned to DH
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Dal Segno
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If you're willing to eat cow-meat then what is wrong with a bit of horse-meat?
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The Midge
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Originally posted by Dal Segno:
If you're willing to eat cow-meat then what is wrong with a bit of horse-meat?
We don't expect a Trojan in our dinner.
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by deano:
(For non-UK shipmates, some beefburgers sold in some big supermarkets here in the UK have been found to contain traces of horse DNA!)
For Tesco, 'traces of horse DNA' = 29% horse meat in some burgers.
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The horsey concentration may be lower, but let's not forget My Lidl Pony.
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Matt Black
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Gee-up with the dinner!
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Anselmina
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Originally posted by Dal Segno:
If you're willing to eat cow-meat then what is wrong with a bit of horse-meat?
Nothing. So long as you are expecting to eat horse-meat. If you found chicken in your veggie-burger or dog in your lamb casserole, you'd be entitled to complain. Paying for a beef-burger really ought to mean getting a beef-burger.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Originally posted by Anselmina:
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Originally posted by Dal Segno:
If you're willing to eat cow-meat then what is wrong with a bit of horse-meat?
Nothing. So long as you are expecting to eat horse-meat. If you found chicken in your veggie-burger or dog in your lamb casserole, you'd be entitled to complain. Paying for a beef-burger really ought to mean getting a beef-burger.
Hmmm. I'd never assumed that Tesco's Everyday Value beefburgers contained much one would want to label as "beef" in the first place.
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The Rogue
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I had a look at the burgers I bought a few weeks ago. And they're off!
Better eat them quick because they won't last furlong.
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Spike
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I had some yesterday. This morning the going was good to soft.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Anselmina:
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Originally posted by Dal Segno:
If you're willing to eat cow-meat then what is wrong with a bit of horse-meat?
Nothing. So long as you are expecting to eat horse-meat. If you found chicken in your veggie-burger or dog in your lamb casserole, you'd be entitled to complain. Paying for a beef-burger really ought to mean getting a beef-burger.
I'd like to know just how many of these products are sold as "beef" burgers, pies or whatever. Some I'm sure but probably not all. In any event, ISTR that meat products, like burgers and sausages can contain "other" meats, ie pork sausages can contain chicken.
It's a matter of horses for courses; usually the main course and it's surprisingly tender, especially if you can get some from a lightly-raced three y.o.
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Welease Woderwick
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I think the ones I had must have had some bacteria in them as they have left me a little hoarse.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by deano:
Low in fat but high in Shergar!
That one's been out to grass for a while. (Is it really 30 years?) I think the best cartoon at the time was grocer saying "Ah now Mrs Flaherty, there'd be a reason the dog food costsŁ25,000 a tin".
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Boogie
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Tesco? I much prefer my Lidl pony burgers.
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Alaric the Goth
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I'll bet the naysayers will jump in and say what they like, I'll just retire at the first chance and have one with a little Philly cheese. Ain't repeating this even if you nag me to death.
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ken
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Originally posted by Dal Segno:
If you're willing to eat cow-meat then what is wrong with a bit of horse-meat?
If they advertised them as horse meat I'd buy one to see what it tastes like.
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The Great Gumby
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
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Originally posted by Anselmina:
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Originally posted by Dal Segno:
If you're willing to eat cow-meat then what is wrong with a bit of horse-meat?
Nothing. So long as you are expecting to eat horse-meat. If you found chicken in your veggie-burger or dog in your lamb casserole, you'd be entitled to complain. Paying for a beef-burger really ought to mean getting a beef-burger.
Hmmm. I'd never assumed that Tesco's Everyday Value beefburgers contained much one would want to label as "beef" in the first place.
Quite. If everyone could see exactly what it is that goes into such burgers or sausages, I can't believe they'd be too bothered about whether there was a bit of Dobbin in with it.
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Boogie
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I have eaten horse meat, it's very tasty and much like beef. I imagine this is a storm in a teacup and the stuff was processed in the same place, picking up some DNA along the way.
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Drifting Star
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I don't think it's possible to define 29% horsemeat as "picking up some DNA along the way".
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Penny S
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Rather more serious for some is the pork DNA in some products.
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The Great Gumby
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Originally posted by Boogie:
I imagine this is a storm in a teacup and the stuff was processed in the same place, picking up some DNA along the way.
Wasn't that Bill Clinton's excuse?
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
I don't think it's possible to define 29% horsemeat as "picking up some DNA along the way".
I don't think Tesco value burgers are 29% any meat! (Depends how you define 'meat' of course ...)
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Firenze
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Originally posted by ken:
If they advertised them as horse meat I'd buy one to see what it tastes like.
I'm sorry that when I was in Mantua, where the local specialities are horse - and donkey - that we were too intent on the local whites to order it.
I have an 18thC cookbook with recipes for brains, udders, eyeballs etc - the only difference is now we call them 'burgers'.
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deano
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The issue for me is not that they contain 29% horse MEAT, but they contain 29% horse DNA!!
Any old bit of the horse will contain its DNA, not just the meat! They could be eating dobbin's lips, arsehole and todger!
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Ariel
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Someone's obviously been burgering around with the recipe.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
I'm sorry that when I was in Mantua, where the local specialities are horse - and donkey - that we were too intent on the local whites to order it.
I've had smoked horse, which a friend brought back from Holland back in my student days. It tasted pretty much like you'd expect: strongly flavoured with a distinct taste of horse, but not unpleasant. He and I were the only two who would eat it.
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georgiaboy
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Originally posted by The Midge:
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Originally posted by Dal Segno:
If you're willing to eat cow-meat then what is wrong with a bit of horse-meat?
We don't expect a Trojan in our dinner.
Then don't take down the front gate!
Or were you meaning the popular US brand of prophylactics?
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by Penny S:
Rather more serious for some is the pork DNA in some products.
On my first day as a student nurse, 25 years ago, the staff canteen was closed owing to a salmonella outbreak. Investigations showed it was from a lamb curry....made with pork! Heads rolled as you can imagine, we had lots of Muslim staff and it was a completely unethical thing to do.
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balaam
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29% of the meat in Tesco economy burgers, that'll be about 2% of the burger.
To be serious, food labelling regulations mean that whatever is in the burger should be mentioned on the package.
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The Great Gumby
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Originally posted by deano:
The issue for me is not that they contain 29% horse MEAT, but they contain 29% horse DNA!!
Any old bit of the horse will contain its DNA, not just the meat! They could be eating dobbin's lips, arsehole and todger!
What's your point? "Meat" in this context clearly covers any part of the animal, and if you think the rest of the meat was from prime cuts of beef, you're sadly deluded.
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Darllenwr
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As a colleague pointed out, burgers are made from the bits left over (eyeballs, teeth) when the honest meat has been processed into joints. Anybody who expects to find honest meat in a 'value' burger is sadly naive.
As has been said above, the bigger concern to me was the percentage of pork products in supposedly 'beef' burgers. I notice rather less fuss is being made about this - presumably because, whilst Brits object to eating horse, they are not worried about pig.
Pity nobody seems to be concerned about those for whom this is an issue.
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deano
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I suppose that would be an interesting topic for a thread in Purgatory, but in here surely we should make a joke about it!
[ 16. January 2013, 20:28: Message edited by: deano ]
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Angloid
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Originally posted by Darllenwr:
whilst Brits object to eating horse, they are not worried about pig.
Apart from Jewish and Muslim Brits of course.
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Darllenwr
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My point exactly.
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wheelie racer
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New breaking scandal: Tesco veggie burgers found to contain 29% horseradish
Whole thing gives a new twist to ~"unexpected item in the bagging area"
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Qoheleth.
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I was disturbed to discover that some Tesco Value veggie burgers have been found to contain 29% uniquorn.
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Gill H
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'What do you want on your burger?'
'50p each way please'
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Zacchaeus
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What I want to know is, why did they think to test for horse DNneigh?
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Ann
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Gotta be careful about the Asda quarter-panda!
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Rowen
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I have burgers with kangaroo meat.... Oh wait, that was deliberate and legal....
Good, little-fat meat.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Ann:
Gotta be careful about the Asda quarter-panda!
Obviously designed to appeal to Real Men -
They ain't no AC/DCs
They wipe out endangered species...
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Everyone likes lovely horses, don't they?
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Chorister
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Best before the 2.30 at Ascot.
(I make 'em up on the hoof....)
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Ariel
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"I'd like a burger please, and make it quick, I have to gallop."
("And a crocodile sandwich, and make it snappy.")
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Gee D
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The trots are at Harold Park Raceway many Friday evenings. The Trots are at big city railway stations on Thursday and Friday evenings. Both are a bit of a gamble.
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Frankel, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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Smudgie
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Don't worry that they may have run out of burgers... they're expecting a delivery this afternoon.
It's coming in at 10 to 1.
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Nenya
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I guess that makes them a very very fast food.
Nen - planning a shopping trip later...
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The Rhythm Methodist
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Credit where it's due: Tesco's horseburgers may be a disappointment, but their meatballs really are the dog's bollocks!
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