Do Euros really eat horse meat?

[oboe]

http://slate.msn.com/id/2113580/

Honestly I think I'd rather risk mad cow disease.    Or switch to Bison meat - that is pretty tasty.

[jEEZY]

horse sausage = delicious

by sausage i mean sausage

[Pei]

Contrary to popular opinion on this board Europe is a lot more diverse than North America, inlcuding in culinary habits .

In answer I know the French do, I also know it is illegal in the UK for some reason. I don't really know about the other countries.

[vorticon]

Originally posted by oboe
http://slate.msn.com/id/2113580/

Honestly I think I'd rather risk mad cow disease.    Or switch to Bison meat - that is pretty tasty.

mmmmm bison...

[TweetyBird]

taste like chicken..

[Airhead]

Originally posted by Pei
Contrary to popular opinion on this board Europe is a lot more diverse than North America, inlcuding in culinary habits .

In answer I know the French do, I also know it is illegal in the UK for some reason. I don't really know about the other countries.

The reason eating horses is outlawed in GB is because horses were more valuable than the peasants and the Nobility didn't want the Peasants eating horses. (You notice there's no law against horses eating peasants.) Eating dog meat is legal in GB, as is eating peasants, as peasants and dogs are roughly on the same par in GB.

There was a movement to lift the eating of horses a few years ago but there was concern the Nobility  might be mistaken for horses and eaten by the peasants. Frankly, the only way I can distinguish Mister Ed from Camellia Parker Bowles is that Camellia Parker Bowles has a deeper voice.

Perhaps some day GB will throw off the yoke of a monarch, but I doubt it- the very best of the Brits  left sometime before 1776 and became the greatest Nation on Earth...the ones who stayed behind are scared of guns, suck their thumbs and cling to their Queen Mommy for protection.

[Furious]

Originally posted by Airhead
...the ones who stayed behind are scared of guns, suck their thumbs and cling to their Queen Mommy for protection.

It's not so much that they are afraid of guns, it's just that for so long only persons of quality were allowed to carry weapons that is was finally bred out of them.

[Pei]

Originally posted by Furious
It's not so much that they are afraid of guns, it's just that for so long only persons of quality were allowed to carry weapons that is was finally bred out of them.

Try not to get too much of your ideas about the UK from Hollywood .

[Airhead]

Originally posted by Pei
Try not to get too much of your ideas about the UK from Hollywood .

We don't; we form our ideas about GB based upon Beatle's posts.

[Pei]

Originally posted by Airhead
We don't; we form our ideas about GB based upon Beatle's posts.

You do realize that Beetle is in fact a gun-owning  suped-up Austin Healey driver from central California?

[SunKing]

Americans sure do. McDonalds bought over a million in horse meat from Australia a year or two ago.

[oboe]

Please say it ain't so, SunKing.

[Saintaw]

It's the only way I like horses, no need to add salt, it is a very salty meat.

And Airhead, I think it's the swans, not the horses.

[Glasses]

So in other words Prince Charles is afriad someone  might mistake Camilla Parker  ,whatever,  for a horse   hunt her down and toss  her in the barbeque.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by SunKing
Americans sure do. McDonalds bought over a million in horse meat from Australia a year or two ago.

Oh, c'mon...that was a one shot deal that won't happen again unless China has another Parvo outbreak as bad as the one that drove up the price of Chinese dog meat higher than the price of Australian horse meat back in 2002.

Unless it is absolutely necessary Mickey D doesn't mix horse meat in with the ground beef.