Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:59 pm  

Rooster Booster wrote:

Yeah it's funny what we think about food.

I've had carpaccio of horse meat in Italy as well as horse meat Salami.

I have eaten things like insects, locusts, grubs, kangaroo, snake and crocodile.

If someone offered my cat or dog in a country that it was part of their normal diet in. I'd accept it. Would others try a bit of what we think of as pet?

I'm similar, not squeamish in the slightest and have eaten snails and frogs legs and all kinds of unusual things, but I don't think I'd eat dog. Not for any reason other than I grew up with dogs about and eating one would just seem a bit wrong. A bit like I bet not many Jockeys would eat horsemeat for example?

[Durham Giant]

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:03 pm  

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Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:18 pm  

wigan_rlfc wrote:

If it says 100% beef then it really should be 100% beef.

I doubt you'd find a burger anywhere describing itself as 100% beef, let alone a supermarket "value" burger.

As to horsemeat, I've enjoyed horse steak tartare in Belgium

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:54 pm  

Just been to the fridge to check the date on my Tesco burgers.........................aaaaaaaaaaaand they're off!!!!

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Thu Jan 17, 2013 7:12 am  

interesting that this thread is directed only at Tesco when at least 2 other shops were also caught up in this issue, seems the Tesco knives are out again.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:21 am  

Whether one is happy to eat horse meat or not, does this case not show that Tesco / Iceland etc. are unable to prove the provenance of what they sell ?
In this instance it was horse meat but the same lack of supply chain control could allow much more serious contamination to occur.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:28 am  

Cronus wrote:

... Good blog...

Cheers.

Cronus wrote:

The first thing I said to the Mrs was, this is either someone simply being a chancer, or someone being squeezed so tightly by the supermarkets they've adopted desperate measures.

Absolutely. I just don't see any logic for it otherwise.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:36 am  

Standee wrote:

interesting that this thread is directed only at Tesco when at least 2 other shops were also caught up in this issue, seems the Tesco knives are out again.

The was a whole batch of shops involved – Iceland, Aldi, Lidl, Dunnes Stores, Supervalu, Spar, Centra, FXB Butchers and Superquinn, as well as Tesco.

I must admit, I found it odd to read that Tesco had placed adverts in papers apologising this morning. Whatever the real reason for this happening, it wasn't just them – and they can claim, one would have thought, that they didn't know about about it and certainly didn't order it.

Where there may be culpability is in this being a direct consequence of the products being meant to be very cheap, together with practices to drive down the percentage of the sale price that goes to the supplier/producer (I saw a story a couple of months ago that supermarkets in general pay between 8-12% of shelf price to the producer/supplier, while there's also been anger in the business at some of the supermarkets unilaterally introducing massively extended payment terms for themselves when paying suppliers). But these things are far from unique to Tesco.

On why they're taking most of the flak, you could just as well point out that it wasn't just horse DNA that was picked up, but far more pig DNA, but the mainstream media has concentrated on the the one that's more sensationalistic because culturally we don't eat meat in the UK.

Tesco is the biggest of those, and has a reputation (whether you agree with it or not) for being aggressive in terms of expansion.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:38 am  

Standee wrote:

interesting that this thread is directed only at Tesco when at least 2 other shops were also caught up in this issue, seems the Tesco knives are out again.

Does that make Tesco any less culpable?

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:44 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Does that make Tesco any less culpable?

does it make you any less obsessed and boring?

given that you seem to hate most things about the UK, why not go live somewhere else?