Originally posted by Boroda
Spicy smoked sausage with horse meat is called a "salami".
Ever noticed that good salami is red? It's because of horse meat.
There are some nations, nomads, like Kazakhs or Mongols who eat horse meat just like any other.
What follows below is supposed to be a joke:
Two ogres meet, one carries a bag with something moving inside. "What's in there?" - "Look, I carry wolves to the river to sink" - "Wolves? They are human, Kazakhs!" - "Humans my ass! Five of them just ate a horse!"
Not too sure about the Kazakhs, but I don't think the Mongols really eat their horses much — partly because they're more useful alive: they're transport first and foremost. I'm sure they'll eat it on occasion, but it's mostly goats, sheep and cattle on the meat menu.
They do however drink their milk, and ferment it til it's alcoholic and drink that and use that to produce a spirit too. So again, a live female horse is more useful than the meat. In fact they drink and use the milk of all of "the five animals": horse, camel, cattle, goats & sheep.
I do know this, though: those Kazakh buggers put salt in their tea. A very nasty surprise of a morning, a big warm bowl of milky tea that turns out to have salt instead of sugar in it.
You have been warned.
