Greenhill

Well, we're all a hardier bunch from moving to Canada. Most of us have eaten stuff like deer, moose, elk and roadkill.

So would you eat horse?
Have you already eaten horse meat?

dbd33

I have eaten horse but would not do so in North America.

Greenhill

The poll options are up now.

How was it? Would you do it again?

dbd33

Chewy like moose, poorly barbecued. Not if there was an option for venison.

iaink

I expect that most if us meatatarians have probably eaten it whether we intended to or not....

Oink

Its not that I find eating horses objectionable but its the fact they lied to us that's so abhorrent.

magnumpi

Any one tried one of them smaller, snack size ponies, they look yummy.

Greenhill

"So I got a friend in Vancouver to drive to the Oyama Sausage Co., a high-end meat store at the amazing market on Granville Island. Sadly, she wasn't able to pick up any horse steaks, or better yet Italian horse salami or German horse sausage. Not only are they supposed to be great, but it would have allowed me to say horse salami and horse sausage throughout this article. But she did pick up half a pound of salted, cured meat. On the FedEx form, she called the shipment a "leather art project," which seemed about right. Still, Homeland Security must have been wary of our ploy, since the package arrived with a big green sticker reading EXAMINED BY U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION but was otherwise untouched. American shores, you should know, are not safe from rogue cold cuts."

"It turned out to be pretty awesome--a sweet, rich, superlean, oddly soft meat, closer to beef than venison."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...587279,00.html


OK, any chance one of you west coasters can stick your kagool on and pop down to Granville Island to try some? Let us know how you get on?

Oink

They do some lovely sausages and luncheon meats, I never seen horses for sale but they're French or close to French so I assume they got it. The butchers down the aisle do a nice bit of organic goat.

dbd33

There's no need to go to Vancouver. They sell horse meat at the deli in the high street in Guelph so I suppose they sell it at delis across small town Canada.

Alan2005

Since BSE the systems the UK put in place to guarantee the provenance of meat products were supposed to prevent this kind of thing. The fact that the system failed is the problem, not the fact that we've eaten some horse.

Alan2005

I was there on friday. I got a nice wild boar saucisson and some duck prosciutto. I don't go very often, but when I do it's a min $50 spend.

Zoe Bell

I've eaten it in france.
They did at least have the decency to label it as such
although I have a suspicion that , seeing as we were in a steak restaurant and that it was described as horse steak (obviously in French), on a menu that already had many different " steaks" on it , that the subtle nuance of the original animal may have been lost on many a tourist

Greenhill

I had no idea.

So is it available and popular in Quebec?

dbd33

I would imagine so but I don't seek it out.