mitch777:
geez, by the sound of it, this thread should be merged with Wumpette Style. ;D
(but i DO like the title. ;) ...)
Jeff G:
--- Quote from: Miss Philicia on February 26, 2013, 06:01:44 PM ---Oh please -- I ate a horse meat burger on the Riviera when I was 15. Next.
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Did you really eat it or just put it in your mouth for a few minutes ?
Miss Philicia:
--- Quote from: Jeff G on February 26, 2013, 07:35:39 PM ---Did you really eat it or just put it in your mouth for a few minutes ?
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I ate it. I was there in 1980 and there were not any McDonald's outside of the one in Paris, and I didn't know what I was ordering for some reason except that it was a burger. When I was halfway through my French friend told me what it was.
denb45:
I eat horse meat in Juarez Mexico while i was visiting El Paso, TX
wish i didn't eat that burrito, now I have G.I Disease for life :(
Thank You Western Texas >:( for messing up my life ???
Hugs
Den :)
OneTampa:
I think the issue riding side-saddle as scandal has more to do with mis-labeling (fraud) as consumers are not getting the meat they anticipated. ;)
Excerpt from linked article:
"...The scandal erupted Feb. 7 when Britain’s Food Standards Agency discovered horsemeat mixed into frozen lasagna labeled as 100 percent beef. Horse-loving Britons, who would never think of eating Black Beauty, were shocked, all the more so in that the lasagna came from across the English Channel.
“It’s a straight fraud,” said Britain’s environment minister, Owen Paterson, giving voice to the outrage of English consumers. “If a product says it’s beef and you’re actually buying horse, that is a fraud...”