I've cooked it for Mr Woo before once - whilst on holiday. It looked just like beef - TBH - the kids were quite small and I was cooking something else for us so I didn't titivate and take a lot of care over it - it was tough that's all I remember.

 

I have a number of French friends none of whom eat Cheval - I don't think it's all that commonplace - never seen it on a restaurant menu - then again I haven't looked for it.

Should it become part of a 'stable' diet?

Most in the UK will say 'n-a-y'

 

Some would eat it "on the hoof"

 

 

You could make it the "mane" part of your diet!

... I've never knowingly eaten horse, but after this how can we tell

No likey the new Avvie

Don't mind Gary Newman it's the eyes that creep me out .

Aw sorry Erin, as ever it will only last a short while.

 

I was inspired by my recent purchases. Just spent a silly amount of money on Numan CD's and DVD's. Don't tell anyone but I spent £115. I'm sure he appreciates my contribution to his bank account!!!

My mother used to cook it quite a lot, but had to pretend it was beef because my dad thought he didn't like it. Always cleared his plate.

You're not waiting for them to arrive from HMV are you?

 

Fortunately not Soozy, I bought them through his on-line shop. They arrived last week, I picked them up from the Post Office Saturday morning

I ate it by accident as a child passing through somewhere in France.

It had to be horse - it was nothing like anything i have tasted before or since.

Twas gorgeous!!

However i have now seen the light and am vegetarian

Same here, EC.

If I can eat cow, bunny, chook and fluffy little lambs, I guess I can hardly call myself picky. 

^^ Hardly - you're hard core - you like whelks FGS!

Indeed I do!

I'm a complete floozie when it comes to all fish, Soozy

 for you Sainty 

Good for you Saint, I hope to have the willpower for that one day I eat chicken and fish, never red meat and would never knowingly eat horse, the thought of it makes me feel nauseous

I'm the same, I've tried kangaroo, emu, ostrich, frogs legs & love escargot.  The only thing I've cooked and then couldn't face eating it (no pun) was ox cheeks. But yes given the opportunity I'd give it a try.  

 

I have also tried goat, but to me the smell of it was vile.

When I first visited the mainland it was all the rage. A bit too rich for me. It's like the parsnip of the meat world - it tastes wrong.

I fed master C parsnips last night in a lamb casserole telling him they were just potatoes, he kept saying they just taste wrong. 

I love parsnips now but as a child I really hated them. Every Sunday my mm would put them on my plate amongst the roast potatoes in the hope that I wouldn't notice.

 

Love them now though 

I ate horse when I was a kid (in France) and it was the yummiest but if steak ever. Personally I think a bit if horse in your cheap frozen burger is the least of your worries - it's the rest of the ingredients you should be concerned with

 

I tried being a vegetarian for a number of years, but then lapsed back into fish and poultry. I rarely eat red meat, but don't turn it down if offered (I sometimes eat at my Mum's and if she does a chili con carne then I feel it polite to eat it). But in the main it's just fish and poultry for me.

 

I love parsnips too, especially honey roasted. I can't understand why they are not more liked. 

I love getting one of those speedy peeler for veg and making thin parsnip slices and putting them on a well oiled tray - into the oven as an alternative to crisps - they are so nommy 

Parsnips look like a particular type of vegetable thus the brain expects a certain taste. I can only eat beef and lean pork. Lamb has a dangerous fat content and mutton tastes dreadful. For a while I worked in a chemical factory which made chicken food. I can still smell it if people are using chicken and I can only eat heavily spiced material. Fish? No way!

The problem with this is the slaughterhouse that the meat came from was not passed for horse slaughter so how did the horses get there and why?..

I can purchase an import license to bring a horse into the country for €35 and I don't need and medical documentation with that, so I can bring a horse in pumped with steroids and painkillers and sell it to a dodgy slaughterhouse....

I found this fella free to a good home..how many horses like him have ended up in burgers?....

noooooo!

 

don't post pics of the lovely horses!!! 

 

 

Stonks - I grew up riding, cousins had horses (never did get my own)...  but did once go to the auctions with my uncle & cousins...    

 

the meat man outbid everyone for nearly all the horses 

 

What was meant to have been a fun day out ended up a heartbreaking nightmare 

 

I went into a pub once where they were serving parsnip, beetroot and carrot crisps. All were very nice. The only downside is that they were charging a mint for them - or I would probably have eaten them more often.

 

Awww Ditts I bought my last 2 horses to save them going to market and sold them on private to someone I know, the horse world can be cold and callous..

awwww!

 

I want to go do that now...   one day I will.   When I am the mad animal woman of Essex (my retirement plan...   my desired menagerie is an ever increasing list of chickens & animals )

 

 

 

if you mean crisps and not chips   Aldi do a selection of these flavoured crisps or did   will have a look next time I am in 

 

Yes MrsH, they were the crisps I had. Can't say I have an Aldi near me, but my mum does. 

I'm on an animal ban at the moment by himself....though he's also put me on a loo roll and conditioner ban aswell but he does'nt know I have 10 bottles of conditioner and about 78 loo rolls hidden in the loft, I also have enough Pharmetons and painkillers to stock a small Chemist hidden in my wardrobe..

Tesco have these on offer at the moment £2.99 down to £2

Tyrrells Natural Beetroot, Parsnip & Carrot Chips - Lightly Sea Salted (150g)

 

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk...sea_salted_150g.html

Anyone from Ireland of a certain age, remembers the Goodman Beef Tribunals and I wasn't too surprised to see his name crop up as being involved in this 

There is a disturbing similarity in our lives 

 

I'm on an animal ban too (we only have 1 dog & 1 cat..   plus the chickens that don't belong to me but I look after, fgs)

 

loo rolls - hahahahaha - always a touchy subject in this house!   and I have bags of them secreted away in secret locations (this is cos the boy is a nightmare with his loo roll usage)

 

Hair conditioner - I have been banned in the past - I am doing ok at the moment though.     I can see a nail product ban looming on the distant horizon!

Right - think that constitutes "off topic"

 

 

my work in this thread is done!