Inspired by the “Have you ever ridden a horse?” thread, and seeing this mentioned in a recent episode of Mad Men, I thought I would ask if anyone has ever eaten horsemeat.
When I was living in Berlin, and not yet all that great with German, I went to a local butcher shop and had a boulette (mini-meat loaf) that was great, and inexpensive. I went there several times and then told a German friend about it. He pointed to the sign above the butcher shop, “ROSS” which I thought was the name of the family who owned the shop - but it is the German name for a butcher shop that specializes only in horsemeat.
So, yes I have eaten it (unknowingly at the time) and yes, it was actually pretty good!
Yes, multiple occasions. I go out seeking flicka … [and bambi, thumper … and phideaux on one interesting occasion though I didnt go seeking phideaux]
If it is animal protein [note, I refuse to eat bugs other than by accident] I will probably give it a shot [as long as I don’t know the cat or dog personally. Though I am not averse to eating my farm animals as they are not pets.]
I might hesitate at eating feral raptors and carnivores as I understand that if they do a fair amount of scavenging it can adversely effect the taste.
I would also eat vat human [cloned as steaks, not as a person] and other vat meats … especially if they can duplicate the texture and flavor of a good steak, or lobster tail, or jumbo shrimp. [if the meat was cheaper than natural born critter, of course. Though I might pinch the pennies and buy samples when they first came out just to try them. Eating vat protein regularly would depend on the cost per serving.]
No. I mean, besides the whole kosher thing, horse to me is what you eat when your castle is under siege and it’s either that or rat. It’s what you eat when your tattered army is retreating across the Russian steppes and the Cossaks are on you tail. Horse reeks of desperation.
I haven’t eaten horse knowingly and I seriously doubt I have at all. I have been fed goat and deer without being informed. I didn’t sick up then, so now I’m pretty much whatever I’ll try it.
I still despise most vegetables though and will not eat an onion. Or squash. Or eggplant. Or …
I’m Dutch, and I’ve got an actual horse butcher in my neighborhood. Though horse butchers are pretty much an oddity now, and many people here probably won’t eat it at all, horse meat used to be pretty common. The most common type, which you can still find in pretty much any supermarket over here is a sliced, smoked sandwich meat. It’s also used as an ingredient in the cheaper hamburgers and some brands of frikandellen.
Anyway, yes I’ve eaten it, and I like the smoked sandwich variety. I don’t think I’ve ever had a real horse steak or anything like that, but I’m willing to try it.
I have no ethical problem with eating horse raised for human consumption. Its a domestic animal made of edible meat, and very traditional in some cultures. I’ve eaten horsemeat sausage in Italy.
I haven’t eaten horse in the US nor would I. Horse is the US is not raised for human consumption and domestic horses are treated – on a daily basis – with medications, from wormers to wound cream to pain relievers, which should not be used on an animal for human consumption. So, American horsemeat is generally contaminated, which is why I would not eat it.
None of the choices fit, so I didn’t know what to choose.
In certain worlds of science fiction they make meat from cloned cells, nicknamed vat meat. In the real world they are actually working on cloning meat for the table.
Cloned Milk and Meat: What's the Beef? | Live Science addresses issues with cloning the whole animal. I am not as fond of the idea of cloning the whole animal, as the animal would still use up the same resources as a natural birth.
They have actually cloned basic meat cells experimentally and in discussions in other boards online apparently there is a bit of textural issue… There need to be several types of cells present in certain configurations to get the texture of steak or shrimp [as an example] so vat meat may only take the form of ground beef or ground chicken as patties, nuggets and meatballs unless they can whip the manufacture technique into a change from a layer of cells to actual segments of muscle. I believe that would take something like stem cells and programming [make me a tenderloin segment or make me a deltoid]
However, then you run into ethical issues [if you are peta or ethical vegetarian] is it ethical to eat something that never actually lived outside of a cloning vat and can not live outside of the vat … if it never had intelligence, is it nommable…I say yes but a lot of peta think vat meat is the antichrist …