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RE: Beef- err I mean Horse Lasagne
February 10, 2013 at 3:27 pm
When I add up ( I recalculated) I came to the conclusion that you might be right to some extent.
Thing is, I like quality food and I am also willing to spend more money on food than a average person.
I just read the reports here which suggest that the horsemeat came into manufacturing through criminal intention.
The French producer got the meat from a rumanian company which has conections to crime.
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RE: Beef- err I mean Horse Lasagne
February 10, 2013 at 4:16 pm
I too like quality food, when I can get it. For instance, my absolute favourite cheese is Roquefort (so much so that I'm coining the word Roqueforgasm). Unfortunately, while it is relatively inexpensive as these things go, the value for money represented by the small portion size means that for me it's an indulgent luxury item.
Part of the problem (though not all) with the horsemeat revelation is that it was being sold as beef at beef prices. Maybe if it was sold as the meat it actually was, as a cheap alternative to beef, there would have been less of an outcry - though I'm reminded of the foot and mouth epidemic early last decade, when supermarkets started selling ostrich meat as a delicacy in its own right. It didn't seem to catch on; it seemed to disappear, annoyingly, before I got a chance to try that stuff.
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RE: Beef- err I mean Horse Lasagne
February 18, 2013 at 2:19 am
Apologies for flogging this dead horse; I just wanted to share this delicious little item I encountered on my travels:
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I presume all this talk of horsemeat masquerading as beef works as advertising for them, since the place was quite packed out. Well, who am I to say them neigh?
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RE: Beef- err I mean Horse Lasagne
February 18, 2013 at 2:44 pm
"Never mind the horse burgers, try our meat balls, they are the dogs bollocks!"
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RE: Beef- err I mean Horse Lasagne
February 18, 2013 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2013 at 3:14 pm by Cyberman.)
Odds on I'm going soft, but true to form this is my second favourite story of the whole season, hands down.
Incidentally, did you know that "lasagne" is an anagram of "nag sale"?
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RE: Beef- err I mean Horse Lasagne
February 20, 2013 at 1:35 pm
I'm 60% certain I have eaten horse now.
It is a pretty funny story, most of all because if horse meat was actually sold legally, no doubt it would be sold as a delicacy and be more expensive than beef.
However, there is a deeper side to this that people clearly don't give a shit about.
The reason people were squeezed into doing this was partly due to EU law. It fucks over so many farmers and businesses to the point where the supply is lower than the demand, especially with the economy being cunted.
They are forced into producing lower quality goods from abroad.
Now big Dave and his pals at the EU can use EU law to raid people responsible in Romania, giving license to the big supermarkets to sell whatever the fuck they want because it isn't their fault.
Meanwhile, if a local butcher did this they would be shut down, forced to compensate, and none of their other products would be trusted if they ever opened again.
