I read that some popular British food chains have been taking unsuspecting customers for a ride (article here)
Shergar sausage anyone?
I read that some popular British food chains have been taking unsuspecting customers for a ride (article here)
Shergar sausage anyone?
Boadicea's Chariot 
Naaaaay! This gives a whole new meaning to high stakes.
Precisely!
I wonder if any members have been saddled with a box or two?
You horsing around?
I heard this on the news.
Eating horse doesn’t bother me, but we shouldn’t be falsely sold ….
I guess a Red Rum Burger would be well past it’s sell by date.
I read that Tesco didn’t have a very successful Christmas period and I don’t suppose this will help profits.
I thought it was a EU requirement that burgers contain at least 25% horsemeat.
Pseu, no disrespect, but 99% of advertising is false selling. Do you really believe that L’Oreal creates products for you because you are worth it?
Hands up everybody who knew what Red Rum spells backwards
Nothing better than a bit of rat burger or rat tart.
Why are the british so funny about horse meat? Okay to be sold a beef burger and get horse is wrong, but a horse burger fine served with some horse radish.
I am surprised that Tesco’s hasn’t been attacked by Muslims for selling pig in the burgers.
Why, oh why does it always end up with the Jews every time?
I note £300 million off their shares this morning, good, only thing they appear to understand is their pocketbook.
They really do seem quite incapable of taking a day off from shafting gentiles, even now.
CO, it’s a bit of a stretch to call Tesco jewish these days! It’s a publicly quoted multinational – even if it did have Semitic beginnings.
Just watched the Beeb’s 6 O’clock News offering with the relevant report showing Tesco staff removing packages marked “100% beefburgers” from the shelves, which with hindsight perhaps demonstrates a certain cavalier attitude to the traceability requirements. Not that I would ever buy a supermarket burger anyway, nor patronise a commercial burger joint. Buy a chunk of decent beef instead, mince it and make your own. Simples!
Horsemeat itself is quite good when properly marinated and prepared, but a bit chewy when it’s not as I discovered in Belgium and France. The nag Ethel arrived on, for example, was perfectly tasty hot off the barbie accompanied by a green salad and a jug of fruity Alentejo tinto. 🙂
OZ
I wondered why t hey called it filly mignon.
Sipu, no I’m not taken in by those commercials: being a low maintenance type of gal anyway, I don’t use any products which have that slogan!
But a claim that something we are sold to eat, isn’t what it says it is is a little worrying.
Reminds me of a time that a friend prepared soup for a group of us, saying it was a vegetarian soup – and then went on to explain how she’d used the stock from a ham hock!
Sipu, Pseu: Hormel, makers of Spam just bought Skippy makers of peanut butter. One of the Spam execs. was quoted as follows.
“This purchase provides us with a valuable center-aisle, non-animal-protein product”
Sounds right tasty eh!
The makers of Spam have just bought a maker of peanut butter? It can only end in tears
so I’m going short on Hormel stock first thing in the morning.
OZ
#8 The Shining, Soutie. (winky-eyed smiley thing)
Morning all, there must be a thousand jokes this morning about horses and burgers, this one from Mac in today’s Mail
‘HE’S BEHIND YOU! – The Tesco burger man.’
Told you the stakes were high!
Some mis-steak surely?