Neigh, lad!!

[teamsaint]

Waitrose meat not not bought form a fence, then?

[teamsaint]

Frankely, I'm inclined to agree.

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse, said the burgher.

Actually, it occurs to me that I should perhaps investigate some of my local farm shops and decent butchers for horsemeat now that Hereford racecourse has closed after almost 2½ centuries...

I had forgotten about that. very much part of the way of life , I should imagine. A nice winter afternoon at the jumps is hard to beat.

[ahinton]

Call in McDonalds - maybe a McDobbin!

McDonkey, more like!

[Anna]

The UK exports horses to the EU, and also imports them (as colts) for fattening for what is called "white meat" as opposed to the "red meat" of older horses and then re-exports the white meat(sort of the equivalent of veal)

The British distaste of eating horse comes from the assumption that we have a connection with horses, they are our friends, companions, we sit on them, and they ploughed the fields and harrowed in the days of Downton Abbey. Not a lot of people have such an emotional attachment to cattle or sheep (sheep are the most intelligent of animals despite their ditzy reputation)

Not sure if I am correct but I think the French started eating horse during the French Revolution when, fed up of a diet of rats they decided to eat the horses of the aristrocracy and thus began a trend. Most UK exports are to France, Belgium and Italy (where evidently they favour the pale flesh of young colts) There is a health hazard re eating horse and their injested antibiotics which I believe DEFRA are trying to address via the passport system.

[EdgeleyRob]

Those Tesco value burgers won't be around furlong.

[Anna]

Those Tesco value burgers won't be around furlong.

Are they from their Galloping Gourmet range?

[Beef Oven]

Are they from their Galloping Gourmet range?

[Beef Oven]

Is what "new material"? If you read the above post more carefully, you wold in any case have noticed the words "I've just heard, incidentally...", which might at least have given you something of a clue had you been concentrating on it rather than whether or not the M&S pork you were roasting contained pig meat...

So, new then.

[Beef Oven]

Well I've just been to the freezer to check my Tesco value burgers........and they're off!

[EdgeleyRob]

Are they from their Galloping Gourmet range?

Brilliant!

[Nick Armstrong]

A heartfelt to all who have helped turn my little thread into a classic !!

[MrGongGong]

A heartfelt to all who have helped turn my little thread into a classic !!

http://www.britishhorseracing.com/goracing/Guide/Flatracing/Classics.asp#Leger

[Nick Armstrong]

http://www.britishhorseracing.com/go...sics.asp#Leger

I chose the word advisedly

[ahinton]

Those Tesco value burgers won't be around furlong.

That one's been done already (can't be bothered to look up the actual post number now) and, in any case, is in contravention of EU regulations, since it is against the law to measure distances travelled by horses (or indeed anything else) in furlongs; it's also an antediluvian measurement, as is the knacker's yard.

I have a nagging suspicion that some people in UK have been eating colt urkey in the days immediately following Christmas for generations.

[ahinton]

So, new then.

...yawn...