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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :

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!)

Posted by The Midge (# 2398) on :

This thread should be consigned to DH

Posted by Dal Segno (# 14673) on :

If you're willing to eat cow-meat then what is wrong with a bit of horse-meat?

Posted by The Midge (# 2398) on :

quote:
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.

Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :

[aside]

quote:
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.
[/aside]

The horsey concentration may be lower, but let's not forget My Lidl Pony.

(Thank you Twitter.)

Posted by Matt Black (# 2210) on :

Gee-up with the dinner!

Posted by Anselmina (# 3032) on :

quote:
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.

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Anselmina:

quote:
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.

Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :

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.

Posted by Spike (# 36) on :

I had some yesterday. This morning the going was good to soft.

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Anselmina:

quote:
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.

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

I think the ones I had must have had some bacteria in them as they have left me a little hoarse.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

quote:
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 costs£25,000 a tin".

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

Tesco? I much prefer my Lidl pony burgers.

[Smile]

Posted by Alaric the Goth (# 511) on :

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.

Posted by ken (# 2460) on :

quote:
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.

Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:

quote:
Originally posted by Anselmina:

quote:
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.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

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.

Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :

I don't think it's possible to define 29% horsemeat as "picking up some DNA along the way".

Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :

Rather more serious for some is the pork DNA in some products.

Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on :

quote:
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?

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

quote:
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 ...)

Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :

Horsemeat accounted for approximately 29% of the meat content in one sample from Tesco. Even with their value range I think that has to be recognised as being more than "picking up some DNA".

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

quote:
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'.

Posted by deano (# 12063) on :

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!

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

Someone's obviously been burgering around with the recipe.

quote:
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.

Posted by georgiaboy (# 11294) on :

quote:
Originally posted by The Midge:

quote:
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?

Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :

quote:
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.

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

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.

Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on :

quote:
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.

Posted by Darllenwr (# 14520) on :

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.

Posted by deano (# 12063) on :

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 ]

Posted by Angloid (# 159) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Darllenwr:
whilst Brits object to eating horse, they are not worried about pig.

Apart from Jewish and Muslim Brits of course.

Posted by Darllenwr (# 14520) on :

My point exactly.

Posted by wheelie racer (# 13854) on :

New breaking scandal: Tesco veggie burgers found to contain 29% horseradish

Whole thing gives a new twist to ~"unexpected item in the bagging area"

Posted by Qoheleth. (# 9265) on :

I was disturbed to discover that some Tesco Value veggie burgers have been found to contain 29% uniquorn.

[Eek!]

Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :

'What do you want on your burger?'
'50p each way please'

Posted by Zacchaeus (# 14454) on :

What I want to know is, why did they think to test for horse DNneigh?

Posted by Ann (# 94) on :

Gotta be careful about the Asda quarter-panda!

Posted by Rowen (# 1194) on :

I have burgers with kangaroo meat.... Oh wait, that was deliberate and legal....
Good, little-fat meat.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

quote:
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...

Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :

Everyone likes lovely horses, don't they?

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

Best before the 2.30 at Ascot.

(I make 'em up on the hoof....)

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

"I'd like a burger please, and make it quick, I have to gallop."

("And a crocodile sandwich, and make it snappy.")

Posted by Gee D (# 13815) on :

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.

Posted by Sparrow (# 2458) on :

Frankel, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
I had some yesterday.

That would explain the long face.

Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :

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.

Posted by Nenya (# 16427) on :

I guess that makes them a very very fast food.

Nen - planning a shopping trip later...

Posted by The Rhythm Methodist (# 17064) on :

Credit where it's due: Tesco's horseburgers may be a disappointment, but their meatballs really are the dog's bollocks!

Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :

quote:
Originally posted by The Rhythm Methodist:
...Tesco's horseburgers may be a disappointment...

Neigh, lad, there's nowt wrong wi' them!

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

You can tell the people who eat Tesco Burgers, they're the ones who've still got a bit between their teeth.

Posted by The Machine Elf (# 1622) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Darllenwr:
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.

You shouldn't get eyes in burgers since 1997, due to BSE. Though if what is in the burger is not what is on the label, all bets are off.

Posted by Jay-Emm (# 11411) on :

quote:
Originally posted by The Machine Elf:

quote:
Originally posted by Darllenwr:
..
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You shouldn't get eyes in burgers since 1997, due to BSE. Though if what is in the burger is not what is on the label, all bets are off.

And the (identical to) meat off the bone *ought* to be declared as a seperate ingredient and not meat, let alone brain and eyes.

[ 19. January 2013, 15:10: Message edited by: Jay-Emm ]

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

I think this story is going to run and run ...

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

...in one form or another:

Mr. C. was moaning today that the new dishcloths I had bought weren't very absorbent and were just pushing the water around instead of soaking it up. I said I'd look at the packet to see where I'd bought them, so to remember not to buy that sort again. It said 'Tesco value dishcloths'. We both looked at each other, laughed, and said at exactly the same time, 'It must be because of the horsemeat in them!'

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

We went to Tesco's last weekend: we bought pork chops and ready-meals for meat. Fish tonight. I never ever buy burgers at a grocery store: only at a little restaurant across the street from the university where my wife got her MA last year....

Posted by kankucho (# 14318) on :

quote:
Originally posted by The Machine Elf:
You shouldn't get eyes in burgers since 1997, due to BSE. Though if what is in the burger is not what is on the label, all bets are off.

Value burgers used to be even better value when they had eyes in them. They'd see me right through to the end of the week.

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

[Projectile]

Posted by St. Stephen the Stoned (# 9841) on :

Warhorse. You've seen the movie...

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

Not yet I haven't! I'd rather ride a Tennessee Walking horse at a canter or a gallop in New Mexico than stay here and watch a film featuring horses. I've been riding since age 8. My good friend and fellow Shipmate, JB, says I am still quite a good rider! He should know: he owns a horse named Whimsy and he competes in dressage...

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

And with that we appeared to have wandered right off the subject.

Plus exhausted all the equine puns. We wouldn't want to be flogging a dead horse (unlike Tesco).

Firenze
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