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      I heard from my dad that back in the day some butchers used to pass it off as some cuts of beef. It’s not like they couldn’t sell horse meat, since it’s legal (there’s some health requirements) but beef is supposed to be more tender and tasty, thus more expensive.

      It’s just not a particularly desired type of meat, so you don’t see it often at butchers nowadays.

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        Horse meat is consumed regularly in some Central-Asian countries. From what I’ve heard, it’s lean as hell, moreso than lamb.

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        That’s interesting because in fact the only times I had it was as a spread, many many years ago. It’s got this slightly gamey taste, great on toast.

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      I don’t think I’ve (knowingly) eaten it as anything but cold smoked cold cuts. Those are damn good but so is probably any meat

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      People around me stopped buying Findus not because of the scandal, but because they just didn’t taste as good once they changed their recipe.
      I can’t say if it was the horsemeat, but the ready meals tasted better before. I don’t know how to word this without sounding awkward.

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      In the US at least it’s sort of a legal grey area

      We of course have our usual patchwork of different local and state laws, and I believe it is outright banned in some parts of the country

      But overall, federally, I believe it’s more of an issue that there’s so little demand for it that no slaughterhouse for horses has bothered to open and go through the necessary USDA inspections and such to process horses for human consumption.

      I believe, if you really wanted to, you could go slaughter a horse yourself and feed it to your friends and family and be totally in the clear, but if you try to sell that horse meat anywhere you’d have the USDA beating down your door (not a lawyer, don’t go feeding your friends horse based on my understanding of the issue)

      As for the cultural reasons that Americans don’t want to eat horses and why it is outright banned in some parts of the country, I can’t really comment on that. I’d eat a horse and wouldn’t feel the least bit bad about it.

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        In the US it’s seen as taboo to eat animals that provide labor or companionship to humans, it’s almost like a betrayal. This includes horses, donkeys, dogs and cats.

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        It used to be found in a lot of cheap canned dog food, but now most dogs eat better than I did as a kid.

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        The Tongans around here used to eat l, and probably still do, eat horse. I was working graveyard with a guy and he offered some of his food. Turns out it was a horse meat dish cooked in milk to tenderize it. It was sweeter then beef, wasn’t bad, but wasn’t great either. At least cooked like that.

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        Yeah, I live in Korea and bring horse jerky back to the US as gifts. Don’t think customs would like finding it though.

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        I bet horses are way less annoying than cows, too. A nearby meadow regularly has cows, drives me up the walls sometimes (they can be pretty loud, and their frequencies really carry).

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        I’ve ridden horses for years, but I don’t mind eating horse.

        Maybe it’s just me, but I feel more kinship with cows than with horses. Cows are fairly intelligent, like regular pack animals. Horses are afraid or everything all the time, it’s exhausting.

        Of course I eat some cow every now and then, but if I had to choose, I’d eat horses. They’re not as worthy.

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        Maybe I’m just weird, but I don’t get this. I think all animal mistreatment is bad, and I try to reduce how much meat I eat, but I still eat it. I’ve never understood the attachment people have to horses where they won’t eat it. Most people have probably never seen a horse in person, let alone ridden one. I have, and it wouldn’t bother me. I’d eat dog too for that matter, and I have had a pet dog and love dogs. As long as they aren’t mistreated (which they will be if farmed on a large scale, but that’s another issue) then why does it bother you? As far as I’m aware, it’s really only an English and American thing, and particularly American.

        In addition, I’m assuming you eat cow/chicken/etc? How does their mistreatment not make you avoid eating them? Shouldn’t that be more important than what type of meat it is?

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    I had these. They were pretty gnarly. There are two other flavors, maggot cheese and puffer fish I think. None of them made me think I was missing out by not eating the real thing.

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      I’ve never had maggot cheese, but both horse and puffer fish are pretty good.

      Not good enough to go out of your way to eat them, but if you’re already in an area that serves them, they’re worth trying.