Horse Burgers

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  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    I've eaten a crocodile burger and a camel burger - I can't say I loved either of them, but they weren't terrible.

    I wouldn't say I'd never eat a horse burger, but it's pretty unlikely and a definite NO if it came from McDonalds!
    Especially not if it is the McD's right next to the racecourse.......
  • radix89
    radix89 Posts: 48 Member
    Am I likely to try horse meat? Not really, however despite what a ton of blog spam is saying eating horse meat was only banned in a few states. It was the slaughter houses that were shut down. Small amounts of horsemeat has been legally imported mainly for ethnic populations that don't have the same qualms. Selling home slaughtered horse meat became an issue after the slaughter houses were shut down and why many automatically assumed eating it was banned.

    An article with some of this info from before the new rules:
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-05-horse-meat_N.htm
  • porffor
    porffor Posts: 1,210 Member
    Noo, I love horses :(

    These horses were being slaughtered anyway. Read up on it.

    Sorry but I find your naivity on the meat and bi-product trade astounding.. So would you eat a horse that was riddled with cancer or some other disease and being PTS for health reasons? Well it's dying anyway right?
  • Robide
    Robide Posts: 101 Member
    I'd certainly try it. I mean, if Alastair Overeem practically lives on the stuff, it can't be bad! From what I know about it, it is low fat, high protein..... So basically, the ultimate meat.

    I'm not so concerned about it coming from horses, so long as, along with any meat I shop for, I know it is free range and humanely treated.

    Having said all of this, if I was in a shop and had the choice between Horse and Osterich, Osterich meat would win every time. That stuff is amazing!
  • NickyJones
    NickyJones Posts: 60 Member
    One of my first days in Japan, the higher-ups decided to have a laugh and ordered some horse for us at a local restaurant. It's really tasty raw. I'd skip the entrails though, too chewy. :)
  • rybo
    rybo Posts: 5,424 Member
    I'd try a horse burger. If it's good, I'd eat more, if it wasn't, I wouldn't.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    When I was vacationing in France, I couldn't interpret what I was ordering on the menu - so thought I was ordering some kind of meat dish. It was chewy and tasted like meat. We finally pulled out the French - English dictionary and realized we'd been eating horse meat.

    Even though American's might turn their noses up at many items found in other countries (hagus, snails (escargot), kidney) etc. I'm always willing to give new tastes a try.

    I do draw the line at eating BUGS or Spiders. oh,, and Soylent Green (people)
    IT'S PEOPLE!~IT'S PEOPLE !~IT'S PEOPLE ! Ah HAHAHAHA!!!!!
    Cannibalism - solves two world problems at once (over population, and, lack of food). It's a win/win situation :devil:
  • SMarie10
    SMarie10 Posts: 956 Member
    When I was vacationing in France, I couldn't interpret what I was ordering on the menu - so thought I was ordering some kind of meat dish. It was chewy and tasted like meat. We finally pulled out the French - English dictionary and realized we'd been eating horse meat.

    Even though American's might turn their noses up at many items found in other countries (hagus, snails (escargot), kidney) etc. I'm always willing to give new tastes a try.

    I do draw the line at eating BUGS or Spiders. oh,, and Soylent Green (people)
    IT'S PEOPLE!~IT'S PEOPLE !~IT'S PEOPLE ! Ah HAHAHAHA!!!!!
    Cannibalism - solves two world problems at once (over population, and, lack of food). It's a win/win situation :devil:
    Gives a whole new meaning to the term "Eat Me"!
  • Sublimely_Self_Righteousreused
    Sublimely_Self_Righteousreused Posts: 935 Member
    I would eat people if it were legal.
  • VinVenture
    VinVenture Posts: 290
    Horse burger sounds delicious! Horse meat is so sweet and savoury, horse meat salami is my favourite, we get it maybe once a year from a local farm. (Farmers markets here mostly sell their own smoked meats, and cheese :) )

    Fine, I'd be sceptical from mcDonalds, but if Gourmet Burger Kitchen (best. burger place. ever.) offered it, I'd try it right away. Boar burger, lamb burger, they're all tasty. Fine, boar was very succulent, much better than lamb, but horse? If you haven't tried it, you're losing a culinary experience.
  • auctoritas
    auctoritas Posts: 204
    One of my first days in Japan, the higher-ups decided to have a laugh and ordered some horse for us at a local restaurant. It's really tasty raw. I'd skip the entrails though, too chewy. :)

    Oh I stayed in Japan for a month and a half last year, and while in a hostel in Asakusa I met an Aussie. We went to this little hole in the wall restaurant he'd found, and we saw raw horse meat on the menu. After some joking around we ordered a plate to split. I LOVED it. It was so good. Especially with a little soy sauce~

    I've had horse burger in France, but I think horse tartar is the way to go. *nodnod*
  • Morgori
    Morgori Posts: 954 Member
    I would eat horse, more protein, less fat, more omega 3 fatty acids. Sounds good to me. I do eat buffalo and elk whenever I can get it. I have had antelope, javelina, deer, big horn sheep, bear, mountain lion and caribou. The javelina was terrible but the rest were great caribou is my favorite. I like most of the other large grazers so I think I would like horse.
  • grandmatbigsky
    grandmatbigsky Posts: 10
    I inadvertantly got ahold of some stew meat that was horse one time in the eighties. It actually was alright; a little stringy and tough, and a tad bit on the sweet side. Horses are good clean grazers, so the meat is fine; it's just such a weird notion to us Americans 'cause we think of them more as buddies, pets and movie stars, than as livestock raised as agriculture ... Hi-Ho Silver, Away???
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