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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 16, 2013 13:15:41 GMT
That's what Tesco apparently tell their customers ... only in this case some of the little bits neigh and oink. Perhaps Tesco do not understand the notion beef? Mind you some folk in France and Belgium are quite happy to eat horsemeat - a new export market perhaps? |
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Post by Kye on Jan 16, 2013 19:06:36 GMT
I rather like horse meat. It's very lean.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jan 16, 2013 19:10:36 GMT
Nothing wrong with horse meat as such but if you are going to label something beef, it should be beef. We are picking up beef from a farm next week. Should last us the rest of the year. No worries about horse meat in that. Comes fresh off the cow.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 16, 2013 19:38:22 GMT
I am not much of a fan of Tesco. They are always the most expensive place to buy my shopping whenever I've done a comparison of the main shops (unless you are willing to consume their cheap, crappy products). They always try to make out that they are a loving, caring organisation, but they have absolutely desolated small, higher quality, traders.  |
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 16, 2013 19:41:34 GMT
I hope it comes off the heifer ... cow meat should not be sold as beef. Pedantic? Moi? |
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Post by Miisa on Jan 16, 2013 20:21:07 GMT
I have a problem with the fraud aspect of selling meat they otherwise would have to sell cheaper (if at all) as beef.
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Post by tangent on Jan 16, 2013 21:53:40 GMT
I have a problem with the fraud aspect of selling meat they otherwise would have to sell cheaper (if at all) as beef. Indeed. If they can put horsemeat in beefburgers, the perpetrators are just as likely to put it in veggieburgers, and pork in halal burgers. |
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Post by Shake on Jan 17, 2013 5:41:28 GMT
I agree that it sounds like a 'truth-in-advertising' issue.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 17, 2013 8:55:11 GMT
I have a problem with the fraud aspect of selling meat they otherwise would have to sell cheaper (if at all) as beef. Indeed. If they can put horsemeat in beefburgers, the perpetrators are just as likely to put it in veggieburgers, and pork in halal burgers. Linda McCartney (the veggie food brand named after Paul McCartney's wife, not the wife herself) had an issue about 20 years ago when they discovered pork in their sausages! |
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Post by Miisa on Jan 17, 2013 10:08:05 GMT
I have less of a problem about people with some type of religiously-motivated dietary restrictions, as even most beef is technically not kosher, anyway.
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Post by tangent on Jan 17, 2013 14:00:52 GMT
I have less of a problem about people with some type of religiously-motivated dietary restrictions, as even most beef is technically not kosher, anyway. Yes, of course, the animal has to be ritually slaughtered by a Jew of good standing since non-Jews are potential idolaters. |
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Feb 8, 2013 18:04:34 GMT
One of my other fora has started a Tesco horsemeat joke thread. E.g:
Horsemeat found in Burgers...whatever next "My Lidl Pony"
Tried one of those tesco burgers last night and got a bit between my teeth
Had the urge for a burger last night.....but it didn't last furlong
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Post by Alvamiga on Feb 8, 2013 21:33:33 GMT
I was surprised to see the accusations spreading ever wider, with The Sun's headline " Shergar King" |
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Feb 9, 2013 21:01:39 GMT
Did you hear about the woman who became ill after eating a Findus Lasagne? She has recovered somewhat and is now stable ...
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Post by Moose on Feb 9, 2013 21:16:28 GMT
*groans*
Apparently there already HAVE been traces of pork found in halal pasties and such.
I would not particularly have a problem with eating horse but I'd rather it said horse on the label
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