Why is it so difficult to buy horse meat in the UK?!
So why it it difficult to get some in the UK?
Answers: It is slightly sweet, tender, low in fat, and high in protein and freely avalable across europe.
So why it it difficult to get some in the UK?
Horses are held too highly and most people would feel sentimental or squeamish about eating them. But I found this you might find interesting. It says, "it is not illegal to eat horse meat in Britain and it was, in fact, consumed in some regions until the Thirties."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht...
because its cruel and horses are pets .... wouldnt eat your dam dog would you
they are not domestic pets, you breed those animals to eat!
because we are not french
Because people in the UK have a wierd notion about what meats should be eaten and what meats shouldn't. You can't find rabbit very easily here either. It's a shame, because horse and rabbit are great to eat!
as cliff said ,partly because we are not French, they eat it..
as much as the French may not eat things the brits do, cultural differences.
but in the uk, most don't think of horses like that, we see them more as pets. So sales aren't so good as a result. I wouldn't say it's impossible though.
Shergar - it was you wasn't it!
Because most British people don't like to eat horses. Sentimental, illogical, but true
I was told that one of the reasons we don't eat horse meat is because of the lack of control over the amount of antibiotics that may be given to horses and so get into our systems.
I've tried it and found it tough and not very nice.
fantastic question - it buggs me that people have a notion of nobility with regards to animals, when it comes to eating them.
too many people think meat comes flat packed, and have no idea that at one point it was an animal - i think if ur gona eat meat you should kill it yourself!
- yeah - i'm vege!
wouldn't have a clue
Its not in our culture to eat horse meat.
Horse meat is rare for UK in general because of the amount of pikeys wondering the country. Nuff said.
It's because of the affection that they are held in. It's the same for dogs and cats which are eaten in Korea, as well as a British distaste for Foie Gras, a staple of the French Christmas Dinner. these products just wouldn't sell. The first poster "Youngmum" said it all really.
There is a good "Boucher Chevaline" just accross the channel in Calais though, and the meat is excellent. Afterwards see if you can get hold of Ostrich Meat and Kangaroo meat which make excellent steaks.
Bon appetit.
I tried horsemeat recently in a Russian meal of Plov ... I wasn't aware what I was eating at the time but found it rather tough and heavy on taste. I was also told that is raises blood pressure so I assume that it comes heavily laden with salt. But to be honest, being English somehow tells me its wrong and I certainly wouldn't go hunting for it.
Horses, not to long ago, were just a beast of burden. The yuppie people have turned them into vary expensive pets. Now the horse has more rites than you do.
It was once very very popular in the Uk and every town sold it, but since the 1960,s it's become less and less available.
I had no idea it wasn't available in the UK. It must be a cultural thing (you know, "horse lovers", etc.). We have it here in Italy, although I've never tried it (I'm not much of a meat eater at all: meat generally turns me off, and always has). Come to think of it, it is sort of strange that, with the BSE (Mad Cow) crisis centred in the UK, horse meat did not regain favour as an alternative meat.
It is supposedly very lean, healthful and good for you, and I know it also allegedly has a high iron content (it's very red), and is often recommended to people suffering from anaemia. I knew one girl years ago who absolutely loved horsemeat steaks -- raw! She said she never gave her mother the time to cook hers, because she would eat it then and there, raw. Yuck. To each his own. (Of course, there are plenty of raw beef eaters in the world: that's what "steak tartare" is: raw ground beef.)
But you have ostrich in the UK, don't you? I think that's started to become available someplaces here, too.
We don't eat it here, but surely there is somewhere you can get it. It is probably exported.
I once ate horse meat in Belgium and it was nice. More stringy than most beef, but similar in taste. It had been done in red wine.
maybe it because we like to look at them rather than eat them!
Because it is illegal in the U.K to sell horsemeat for human consumption
because it is illegal that's why.
because the british are weird and hypocritically sentimental about animals...some they eat, some they don't. (I'm british, by the way)
r u 4 real