Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:30 pm  

GT wrote:

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...

I'd be a bit worried about the fairy cakes just now too...

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:16 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

I'd be a bit worried about the fairy cakes just now too...

Is the Cock a Leekie soup OK?

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:26 pm  

Wouldn't rush out to buy your supermarket burgers just yet. Have it in very giid authority that a branch of a very large chain has them in the storeroom freezer. question is whether that's an over-sight - removed them from shelves and forgot the freezer or maybe it's the stuff from the shelves?

If that is replicated across other branches and other supermarkets let's hope that the food testers keep up their work or the supermarkets fairly mark then as containing bits of horse and pig.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:49 pm  

Your not safe, apparently traces of uniqourn have been found in veggie burgers

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:56 am  

Boiled-Yed wrote:

Your not safe, apparently traces of uniqourn have been found in veggie burgers

That's ok, as a uniquorn would be an immitation meat mycoprotein mythological beast, as opposed to a real mythological beast, if you'll pardon the oxymoron.

So we are safe, unless Armando Iannucci was right when he asked, "If meat is murder, is quorn wasting police time?"

[Durham Giant]

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:31 am  

bren2k wrote:

That's ok, as a uniquorn would be an immitation meat mycoprotein mythological beast, as opposed to a real mythological beast, if you'll pardon the oxymoron.

So we are safe, unless Armando Iannucci was right when he asked, "If meat is murder, is quorn wasting police time?"

If anyone saw Quorn being made i doubt they would eat it.!!

It is grown in Huge stainless steel tanks and looks and smells disgusting prior to production.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:47 am  

Durham Giant wrote:

If anyone saw Quorn being made i doubt they would eat it.!!

It is grown in Huge stainless steel tanks and looks and smells disgusting prior to production.

I sometimes have it made into chilli, when the strong flavours are able to mask the rancid natural taste, which is something akin to wet cardboard.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:12 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

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

Surely if it was labelled as containing Horse meat, this would mean they knew it contained horse meat, so we could assume they would know what source the dead horses were from, what state the carcasses were in, how they had been stored, transported and processed, unless they are suggesting "stick a label on them now" and this will "make" them ok.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:20 pm  

GraftonRed wrote:

Surely if it was labelled as containing Horse meat, this would mean they knew it contained horse meat, so we could assume they would know what source the dead horses were from, what state the carcasses were in, how they had been stored, transported and processed, unless they are suggesting "stick a label on them now" and this will "make" them ok.

Exactly ... the problem is not the labelling but the control and monitoring of the supply chain.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:42 pm  

As a certain admin has pointed out elsewhere, you'll notice that the reports say horse DNA not horse meat, these are economy products, meat content will be low.