Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:33 am  

Big Graeme wrote:

Mmm, I thought offal was included in the figures, you learn something every day.

Now, that "British" tag has some great workarounds too.

Still the most brazen one I heard was on a TV investigation program, Bookers were selling big bags of a particular frozen product by the hundred to eg pubs for pub dinners, the product looked like a sausage but contained zero "meat" as per the definition i.e was all arseholes, fat etc. The pack looked fantastic, and was sold by the name, in big yellow jolly letters. "BANGERS".

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:35 am  

Little Robin Redhead wrote:

Thank god I'm vegetarian.

Thank dog you're not Thai

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:22 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Still the most brazen one I heard was on a TV investigation program, Bookers were selling big bags of a particular frozen product by the hundred to eg pubs for pub dinners, the product looked like a sausage but contained zero "meat" as per the definition i.e was all arseholes, fat etc. The pack looked fantastic, and was sold by the name, in big yellow jolly letters. "BANGERS".

They, and another trade outlet who allow members of the public to join for a fee, also sell huge bags of burgers and call them something like "burger van burgers" the obvious implication being that they are cheap (they are) and not to be confused with their more regular burger products, which in the case of the trade outlet that lets members of the public join, are actually very good.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:03 am  

To be honest there's no point worrying too much about what's in the meat your eating. We all must have eaten our fair share of trotters, ringpieces and other delightful cuts over various BBQ's and Rugby games.

If I'm buying from a shop however, I do check the meat content and generally won't go lower than 80% if I can help it.

Once took a group of teenagers to show them how to shop healthily and found some "value" sausages that were 7% meat, 30 for about £2

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:19 am  

At Uni me and my mate prectically lived off Tesco "Economy Burgers". Christ knows what was in them and I'm not sure why neither of us has CJD.

Personally I'm glad we don't waste protein.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:36 am  

From Channel 4, a glaring example of the retards that now "run" the country:

Even though it no longer has responsibility for food labelling, the government has asked the FSA to investigate where the mis-labelled horse meat originated. The agency told Channel 4 News this evening that mis-labelled meat products are in breach of food standards laws.

However if Tesco's Value Beefburgers, which were found to have highest horse meat content, had been labelled as containing horse meat they would be perfectly legal and fit for human consumption.

"Although I doubt they would have been flying off the shelves," an FSA spokesperson said.

So, although nobody yet even has a clue how the horsemeat got in the mix, let alone what source the dead horses were from or what state the carcasses were in or how they had been stored or transported or processed, a label would have made them "fit for human consumption".

You really couldn't make it up.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:09 pm  

DHM wrote:

At Uni me and my mate prectically lived off Tesco "Economy Burgers". Christ knows what was in them and I'm not sure why neither of us has CJD.

Probably due to the low beef content. I don't think the practice of feeding horse to other horses has caught on in the same way it did with cattle.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:35 pm  

Is it true that Gary Hetherington will sue Tesco for feeding him horsemeat, on the basis that he was cohorsed into it?

Meanwhile in a bid to reassure the public, major supermarkets have engaged John Selwyn Gummer to recreate his infamous pose cohorsing another child into eating burgers, who he insists has never come to any harm.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:42 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Probably due to the low beef content.

I think that's the answer. Once you'd cooked the fat out of them they were the size of a 10p piece (an old one, not the tiny little thing we have now).

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:25 pm  

Standee wrote:

Because engaging in arguments with people engrained in their opinions is as pointless as it is frustrating.

After reading the "debate" you've been taking part in during this thread I'd be inclined to agree, although probably not in the same way you're suggesting.


Not got much else to add, most of it's been covered. Agree with the posts about the biggest problem being the non-existent labelling and the quality of the meat. In the right circumstances I'd be willing to give most meats a try.

I'd steer clear of any Tesco Value sausages, mind...