Would You Eat Horse Meat?

[YankeeFan]

Not really sure where I stand on this. My instinctive reaction is to say no, but does that really make any sense?

On the Facebook page of "The Butcher & Larder," the Noble Square butcher shop, owner Rob Levitt posted a link Wendesday to an article about Congress lifting the ban on funding horse-meat inspections. The implication was horses could once again be slaughtered for human consumption in the U.S.

The reaction, not surprising for fans of a butcher shop, leaned in support of lifting the ban.

"Meat is meat is meat," one commenter wrote.

Still, many others found the idea of eating horse sickening.

"This is the most disgusting and reprehensible thing I've ever heard of," one wrote.

And where does Levitt fall long this debate?

"People have a hard time eating Trigger but not a hard time eating Wilbur (from Charlotte's Web)," Levitt said Thursday. “As long as the horses are responsibly raised, I would try it if there was a demand.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/stew/chi-would-chicago-chefs-serve-horse-20111201,0,4052820.story

 

[LongTimeListener]

I went out with friends one time and one of them ordered rabbit for the hell of it. You would have thought he held Peter Cottontail by the ears and slit his throat right at the table.

What is the difference between a horse and a deer and a cow?

 

[Moderator1]

Neigh.

 

[YankeeFan]

I went out with friends one time and one of them ordered rabbit for the hell of it. You would have thought he held Peter Cottontail by the ears and slit his throat right at the table.

What is the difference between a horse and a deer and a cow?

I just had this conversation with someone the other day.

I've had rabbit plenty of times, but a girl/woman I know is a good eater (i.e. not picky) said she wouldn't/couldn't eat rabbit.

 

[YankeeFan]

Neigh.

Nice.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I have. I was traveling in a foreign country, it was served to me, and it was eat it or be hungry. I ate. As for rabbit, there is a certain type of eater, almost all of them women or girls, who are what a woman friend of mine called "cowardly carnivores." Or as my daughter said when she was a small child "It's OK to eat beef because cows are not cute."

 

[imjustagirl]

I've had rabbit, and snake, and bison (so good) and other stuff I don't really remember. I had this conversation with a friend when I saw this story yesterday ... and I STILL don't know why some animals are ok to eat and others just make me feel nauseous. It's not just the cute factor ... I wouldn't eat rat either.

But no, as a somewhat-Kentuckian, I don't think I could eat horse. At least not knowingly.

 

[HC]

According to my mom, I ate horse meat regularly as a child, purchased from the The Horsemeat Market, in fact. I'm an equal opportunity carnivore.

And I love cows (as JR will attest) but have no problem chowing down on a steak.

 

[YankeeFan]

According to my mom, I ate horse meat regularly as a child, purchased from the The Horsemeat Market, in fact. I'm an equal opportunity carnivore.

From the article:

Not that it makes a difference, as eating horse meat in the U.S. remains a cultural taboo, even though it can be found in restaurants as close as Toronto and in supermarket cold cases in French-speaking Canada.

"Horse meat not looked at as food is uniquely American. The rest of the world eats it," said Andrew Zimmern, host of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods.

 

[HC]

According to my mom, I ate horse meat regularly as a child, purchased from the The Horsemeat Market, in fact. I'm an equal opportunity carnivore.

From the article:

Not that it makes a difference, as eating horse meat in the U.S. remains a cultural taboo, even though it can be found in restaurants as close as Toronto and in supermarket cold cases in French-speaking Canada.

"Horse meat not looked at as food is uniquely American. The rest of the world eats it," said Andrew Zimmern, host of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods.

Makes sense. I grew up in Vancouver but both my parents are Dutch, as was the meat market.

 

[waterytart]

I've eaten horse in Europe. Didn't feel like a statement there.

I ate rabbit once, followed shortly by a nasty anaphylactic reaction. It was one of those yuppie restaurants where you get combinations of foods and spices you wouldn't think of on your own, so perhaps some other ingredient was the cause, but the rabbit was the only thing I knew I hadn't eaten before.

 

[The Big Ragu]

If it had a face or was mobile on its own, I ain't eating it.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Based on the performance of a good number of nags I've bet on, I'd have been much better off having them for an appetizer or an entree.

 

[LongTimeListener]

True, Kirk. And if horses are as cognizant of the surrounding world as horse fans say they are, this should provide a good incentive to run a lot ******* faster.

 

[Brian]

Henry Huggins bought Ribsy horsemeat all the time in Beverly Cleary books. If it's good enough for Ribsy, it's good enough for me.

 

[John]

Not a fan ----->

This steak still has marks from where the jockey was hitting it.

 

[Chef2]

Moddy beat me to it;

No way Jose.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

According to my mom, I ate horse meat regularly as a child, purchased from the The Horsemeat Market, in fact. I'm an equal opportunity carnivore.

From the article:

Not that it makes a difference, as eating horse meat in the U.S. remains a cultural taboo, even though it can be found in restaurants as close as Toronto and in supermarket cold cases in French-speaking Canada.

"Horse meat not looked at as food is uniquely American. The rest of the world eats it," said Andrew Zimmern, host of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods.

Those horses in Toronto could've come from the United States. Horses that would've been slaughtered in the U.S. have been shipped to Canada or Mexico since the funding for these inspections was pulled in 2006.

 

[93Devil]

I have eaten deer and bear, but I will not eat dog, cat or any other domesticated animal. That includes a horse.

John Elway approves.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Not that it makes a difference, as eating horse meat in the U.S. remains a cultural taboo, even though it can be found in restaurants as close as Toronto and in supermarket cold cases in French-speaking Canada.

"Horse meat not looked at as food is uniquely American. The rest of the world eats it," said Andrew Zimmern, host of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods.

So that's why the world hates Americans. We don't eat Seabiscuit.

Also: John Elway and Rebecca Lobo, watch your BACKS.