How do you like your beefburgers
Jan 16th 2013, 9:13 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
Eating horsemeat wouldn't worry me. I would be more concerned about other forms of contamination picked up at food-processing plants, e.g. e.coli. This happens regularly in mechanically processed meat in the US.
3 Major Beef Corporations Sued Over E. coli Outbreak
I sometimes make burgers and meatballs out of cerdo/vacuno mince (mixture of pork and beef), done to order at the butchers. The beef (lean steak) gives the flavour and the pork (with plenty of fat) keeps them nice and juicy!
3 Major Beef Corporations Sued Over E. coli Outbreak
I sometimes make burgers and meatballs out of cerdo/vacuno mince (mixture of pork and beef), done to order at the butchers. The beef (lean steak) gives the flavour and the pork (with plenty of fat) keeps them nice and juicy!
Same with albondigas. The 70% beef 30% pork ones are nicer than the 100% beef ones
In the US now all mince is now boiled and bleached before being sold which kills E-coli but removes the flavour and destroys the texture. Same for McDonalds meat and all cheap mince where the cuttings come from the abertoir floor.
When we buy mince in Spain we choose the piece of meat and the butcher minces it there for us. This makes mince relatively expensive compared to the cr*p that Tesco is selling though
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Jan 16th 2013, 9:14 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
Never rains but it pours - Tesco caught out by "local bags" in Wales
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...lsh-store.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...lsh-store.html
Jan 16th 2013, 9:15 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
Jan 16th 2013, 9:21 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
It's ok. having pork or horse meat in if they are labelled as such. Consumers have a right to know exactly what they eating. Same as buying mince, much better to buy steak and mince your own.
A French friend once gave us horse steak, you can tell, it looks tough and grainy!
A French friend once gave us horse steak, you can tell, it looks tough and grainy!
Jan 16th 2013, 9:28 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
It's ok. having pork or horse meat in if they are labelled as such. Consumers have a right to know exactly what they eating. Same as buying mince, much better to buy steak and mince your own.
A French friend once gave us horse steak, you can tell, it looks tough and grainy!
A French friend once gave us horse steak, you can tell, it looks tough and grainy!
We normally buy "aguja" to mince but my mother in-law actually buys solomillo at 25 euros/kg and gets that minced
Jan 16th 2013, 9:36 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
It's going back a few decades now, but I used to have a job in a Tescos butchery department. The amount of rubbish that was used up in the mincing machine was shocking - it was rare to see more than 40% beef meat in the mince meat - and they would have used even less if they had worked out a way to keep the colour looking right. One reason why it's worth paying more at a decent butcher or better quality supermarket to buy processed foodstuffs like mincemeat or burgers.
Tescos are really going to be under pressure as a result of this. A lot of people who don't eat pork for religious or social reasons, are now going to do their weekly shop elsewhere. I've no doubt they will survive, but I suspect their steady expansion of recent years is coming to an end.
Tescos are really going to be under pressure as a result of this. A lot of people who don't eat pork for religious or social reasons, are now going to do their weekly shop elsewhere. I've no doubt they will survive, but I suspect their steady expansion of recent years is coming to an end.
Thye will get it sorted out quickly, and I suspect one burger manufacturer will go out of business, and that more testing will get done, at least for a while.
Nothing wrong with horse meat, and it's eaten in many countries, but the problem is with the ingredients listed, they would only have shown beef as the meat, so that would be where the H&S people, well at least trading standards, woiuld get involved.
Jan 16th 2013, 12:57 pm
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It was the IRISH food standards authority who discovered the horse and pig DNA when they were doing a routine safety check on cheap burgers available in Ireland.
I hear Tesco shares have been hit hard after the news, so every cloud has a silver lining.
I hear Tesco shares have been hit hard after the news, so every cloud has a silver lining.
Jan 16th 2013, 1:19 pm
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Jan 16th 2013, 2:07 pm
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So horsemeat has been found in Tesco Products but a spokesman says It's bollocks.
A woman has been taken to hospital after eating horsemeat burgers. Her condition is said to be stable.
I expect this only relates to those mini-burgers you have as snacks. You know, the horse d'oeuvres.
Are you in favour of Horsemeat in your burgers? Yay or Neigh?
I had a Tesco burger and now I'm feeling a little horse
Those Aldi horse burgers were nice, but I prefer My Lidl Pony.
Scientist: "Sir, we've discovered horse meat in your burgers." Tesco boss: "Why the long face?"
I really hope they launch a steward's inquiry into the Tesco horsemeat scandal. We must find out hoof to blame.
Good thing about these horse puns is it's stopped all the sick Jimmy Saddle jokes.
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on the bright side - Tesco are now accepting vouchers from HMV
(Horse Meat Vouchers)
A woman has been taken to hospital after eating horsemeat burgers. Her condition is said to be stable.
I expect this only relates to those mini-burgers you have as snacks. You know, the horse d'oeuvres.
Are you in favour of Horsemeat in your burgers? Yay or Neigh?
I had a Tesco burger and now I'm feeling a little horse
Those Aldi horse burgers were nice, but I prefer My Lidl Pony.
Scientist: "Sir, we've discovered horse meat in your burgers." Tesco boss: "Why the long face?"
I really hope they launch a steward's inquiry into the Tesco horsemeat scandal. We must find out hoof to blame.
Good thing about these horse puns is it's stopped all the sick Jimmy Saddle jokes.
.
on the bright side - Tesco are now accepting vouchers from HMV
(Horse Meat Vouchers)
Jan 16th 2013, 2:12 pm
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
I should imagine that if the product(s) are safe to eat, irrespective of the actual mix/content, the only thing that can happen is Trading Standards take them to court for misrepresentation.
Jan 16th 2013, 2:56 pm
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
Do their veggie burgers contain uniquorn?
Jan 16th 2013, 3:33 pm
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
Anyone fancy a Chinese ?
http://news.uk.msn.com/blog/trending...3-7ed3d6bba712
Looks like these poor sods were heading for the dinner table........
.....and maybe still are.
http://news.uk.msn.com/blog/trending...3-7ed3d6bba712
Looks like these poor sods were heading for the dinner table........
.....and maybe still are.
Jan 16th 2013, 5:27 pm
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
I've only just heard about all this.....I was appalled....I have just been to check on the burgers I bought from Tesco's yesterday....''AND THEY'RE OFF''!
Jan 16th 2013, 5:39 pm
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