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simonp

Beef burgers?
« on: 15 January, 2013, 07:44:32 pm »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21034942

Doubt I’ve eaten any of the products which have horse meat in, as I don’t generally shop in Tesco or Iceland, and frozen beef burgers is something I can’t recall ever buying.

If you found you’d been sold beef burgers which were up to 29% horse meat, would you care? I think I’d at least like them to be honestly labelled as "random animal burgers" if that was the case.

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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #1 on: 15 January, 2013, 08:08:36 pm »
I wouldn't care, but then I've eaten horse meat in France. 

I did as a student purchase Tesco Value Beefburgers, once and only once because they were boak - I'd rather not eat meat at all, and quite honestly it's a surprise that they contain anything other than cereals and rat meat.  Then again, only in the UK could we expect to purchase meat of any kind for that sort of price.  :-\

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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #2 on: 15 January, 2013, 08:17:51 pm »
Horse is quite tasty, a bit like venison.  If someone's happy to eat beef, then there's no real reason to be upset about noshing on old dobbin.
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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #3 on: 15 January, 2013, 08:48:46 pm »
I love horse and always make a point of eating some when I'm in France. However, these burgers are supposed to be cow. They should at least be what they say they are. But I doubt anyone would buy them if they were labelled truthfully...
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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #4 on: 15 January, 2013, 08:53:38 pm »
Still, it says they found horse DNA. So somewhere there is a farm trying to create a calffoal or something like that.
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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #5 on: 15 January, 2013, 09:04:51 pm »
I love horse
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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #6 on: 15 January, 2013, 09:24:18 pm »
Horse meat is actually better for you than beef - the nature of the horse's digestive system means the fat in the meat is polyunsaturated.

I had a donkey sausage last time in France, so no, horsemeat wouldn't bother me.  But I don't tend to buy that sort of burger just because they are usually not all that nice.
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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #7 on: 15 January, 2013, 09:30:25 pm »
I've eaten horse: it's nommy. However since these burgers were meant to contain cow and not horse, then there's no guarantee that this horse was suitable for human consumption, which is more of a concern.
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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #8 on: 15 January, 2013, 09:33:04 pm »
Surely the pig contamination is a more serious issue than the horse?

I wonder if they tested for human DNA...


Food labelling should be accurate, though, for obvious reasons.

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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #9 on: 15 January, 2013, 09:41:03 pm »
I'm genuinely shocked that they managed to find traces of real, actual meat in some of the Tesco value burgers.
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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #10 on: 15 January, 2013, 09:46:37 pm »
They didn't say they found meat.  They said they found animal DNA.  #pedant

Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #11 on: 15 January, 2013, 09:49:59 pm »
Surely all of the above is why ketchup was invented? :demon:
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« Reply #12 on: 15 January, 2013, 09:52:34 pm »
May contain traces of Brown Sauce...   :hand:

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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #13 on: 15 January, 2013, 10:19:29 pm »
At the least, consumers should have accurate information about what’s gone into the product. I had a thought along a similar line to Kathy’s.

The pig thing is perhaps a concern for some for religious reasons (not me). There’s probably also higher risk of food borne pathogens in pig meat than burger meat, but really anything which has been minced should be properly cooked throughout anyway.

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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #14 on: 15 January, 2013, 10:29:04 pm »
Surely the pig contamination is a more serious issue than the horse?

Horse is halal, aiui.

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Beef burgers?
« Reply #15 on: 15 January, 2013, 10:35:39 pm »
How do you fit a donkey sausage in the bun?

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« Reply #16 on: 15 January, 2013, 10:42:56 pm »
I've eaten horse: it's nommy. However since these burgers were meant to contain cow and not horse, then there's no guarantee that this horse was suitable for human consumption, which is more of a concern.
If, as seems likely, the slaughterhouses are just processing any old animal for burger meat, then were the cows fit for human consumption? As Julian says, if you search for the cheapest meat, it's not going to be good stuff.
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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #17 on: 15 January, 2013, 10:45:34 pm »
Horse meat is actually better for you than beef - the nature of the horse's digestive system means the fat in the meat is polyunsaturated.

I had a donkey sausage last time in France, so no, horsemeat wouldn't bother me.  But I don't tend to buy that sort of burger just because they are usually not all that nice.

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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #18 on: 16 January, 2013, 06:04:19 am »
I had a donkey sausage last time in France,

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« Reply #19 on: 16 January, 2013, 07:42:57 am »
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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #20 on: 16 January, 2013, 07:47:26 am »
I remember living on tesco value burgers when I was a student. ( Burger curry, burger casserole etc etc )

I think the main meat-like constituent was supposed to be mechanically recovered chicken. I bet these new horse meat infused varieties improve the quality no end.
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« Reply #21 on: 16 January, 2013, 07:48:54 am »
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Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #22 on: 16 January, 2013, 08:02:52 am »
Burgers are excellent for eating on the hoof.

Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #23 on: 16 January, 2013, 08:04:34 am »
Taste depends on what the mane ingredient is

Re: Beef burgers?
« Reply #24 on: 16 January, 2013, 08:08:02 am »
Mind, they could give you the trots.