"Horsegate" scandal hits Tesco

[Chromatix]

QI crowdsourced a limerick on the subject:

If lasagne was made out of horse,
God knows what they put in the sauce,
There's neigh need to worry,
There's always the curry,
It's Donkey Jalfrezi, of course.

[fireheart]

These jokes are killing me.

Oh and it gets better.

Seems that Aussies believe that our meat comes from the UK.

(from the link, Woolies (supermarket chain that's primarily Aussie based with a number of stores in New Zealand) are going to test their meat to shut up stupid people)

[Lace Neil Singer]

Been to Tesco's to shop for Valentines night dinner.
On the menu:
Starters - Horse d'oeuvres
Main course - Canterloni and Trotters
and to finish - Dessert Orchid...


As they lay frozen side by side in the lasagne, Shergar turned to Black Beauty and said "Bloody great hiding place but I always knew they would Findus".


I've just read that the horse meat in food may actually be donkey.

Now I really feel like I'm being taken for a ride.

[KatherineB]

BI've just read that the horse meat in food may actually be donkey.

Now I really feel like I'm being taken for a ride.

Feeling like a bit of an ass?

[Chromatix]

The current situation seems to be that a number of different players in the European food chain are under investigation, from abattoirs upwards. Particular suspicion is falling on a supply chain beginning at a Romanian abattoir, as apparently a recent law banning horse-drawn buggies on the public road in that country has led to a surplus of horsemeat. Members of a supply chain in the UK have also recently been raided.

Supermarkets in several of the richer European nations have removed products from shelves after testing revealed that meat types not in the recipe (typically horsemeat or pork instead of or in addition to beef) had been used. It's not restricted to the UK, nor to Findus, nor to supermarket own-brands. Undoubtedly certain religious groups are particularly concerned that they may have unknowingly been eating pork.

Commentary in the news has also suggested that the reclassification of "desinewed" meat as a form of "mechanically recovered" meat - thus defining it as unsuitable for food production - has driven low-cost meal and meat-product producers to seek other low-cost supplies of meat from elsewhere in Europe, thereby opening the opportunity for fraud. Certainly there is a lot of price pressure in that market.

[Lace Neil Singer]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...staurants.html

And Horsegate just keeps on going. O_o

[TheSHAD0W]

It's so hilarious, even other industries are exploiting it!

http://i.imgur.com/o2CNvTX.jpg

[Lace Neil Singer]

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...74/145/f3e.png

[TheSHAD0W]

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3t4815/

Truth.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Um, the reason it's being thrown away is cuz of this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml

[TheSHAD0W]

And with more beef-based scandals hitting all over Europe and the US, now we have a new one in Iceland. It seems that some of their meat pies... Well, they don't have horse meat. Or pony meat, or rat or cat or dog meat, thank dog. Unfortunately, it seems they don't have any meat at all.

http://news.yahoo.com/official-icela...--finance.html

[wolfie]

Background: in northeastern North America, this winter was fairly mild until February, when we got some heavy snow dumps. The famous weather forecaster Puxtatawny Phil saw his shadow on the 2nd.

In Pennsylvania, pork sausage was found to contain ground hog.

[Lace Neil Singer]

And with more beef-based scandals hitting all over Europe and the US, now we have a new one in Iceland. It seems that some of their meat pies... Well, they don't have horse meat. Or pony meat, or rat or cat or dog meat, thank dog. Unfortunately, it seems they don't have any meat at all.

http://news.yahoo.com/official-icela...--finance.html

The pie is a lie?

[lordlundar]

Background: in northeastern North America, this winter was fairly mild until February, when we got some heavy snow dumps. The famous weather forecaster Puxtatawny Phil saw his shadow on the 2nd.

In Pennsylvania, pork sausage was found to contain ground hog.

*THWAP*

Oh don't look at me like that. That was bad enough to justify a smack at the back of the head.

[NorthernZel]

I was at a sort of "luxury" supermarket today (they sell a lot of high-priced goods that are either organic and/or imported from abroad), and they had a whole fridge filled with different cuts of horse meat, including T-bone steaks (actually called I-bone when it's from a horse), tenderloins and whole cuts. They didn't sell horsemeat before all this happened