RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted August 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 28, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, PhilJ W said: I've eaten horse though it was offered as steak in a back street cafe in Calais. I didn't realise until a bit later when I commented on the taste and it was suggested that it was indeed horse. Way back in the early 80’s I went on a French exchange a year after my brother stayed with the older brother of the same family. I ate horse, tongue and various other delicacies, the Dad, a teacher at the school, admitted to our teacher that after my brother had turned up his nose at drinking from a bowl and eating horse they’d been surprised that I just got on with it. He admitted they’d run out of ideas to try with me 🤣 It helped that their Mum was a very good cook. On the way home the channel was so rough we went straight across and followed the coast along to Portsmouth, many were feeling a bit green so myself and two mates collected up their meal vouchers and had a rather nice couple of steaks each with puddings to follow 😉 Definitely preferred beef! Edited August 28, 2023 by PaulRhB 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted August 29, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 29, 2023 13 hours ago, PhilJ W said: I've eaten horse though it was offered as steak in a back street cafe in Calais. I didn't realise until a bit later when I commented on the taste and it was suggested that it was indeed horse. I don't remember ever seeing horse ever explicitly offered on a French restaurant menu (I have seen it in Belgium). It used to be that beef steak would be offered as bifteck but that tradition seems to have almost died out so not easy to know which you will get. France used to have different categories of butchers' shops including boucherie chevaline. Very rarely seen nowadays, but sometimes still on ancient signage. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 29, 2023 15 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said: France used to have different categories of butchers' shops including boucherie chevaline. Very rarely seen nowadays, but sometimes still on ancient signage. So did the UK Butchers, Pork Butchers & Horse Meat Butchers were all around in the 1950s 2 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 7 minutes ago, melmerby said: So did the UK Butchers, Pork Butchers & Horse Meat Butchers were all around in the 1950s Family Butchers too... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Family Butchers too... Found them hard to digest........😁 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 29, 2023 4 hours ago, melmerby said: So did the UK Butchers, Pork Butchers & Horse Meat Butchers were all around in the 1950s 3 hours ago, Hroth said: Family Butchers too... And the cats meat man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 44 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: And the cats meat man. We really must stop making such observations about curry houses and Chinese take aways! 😁 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 3 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said: We really must stop making such observations about curry houses and Chinese take aways! 😁 Behave, or I'll dig out my photo of the Chinese takaway, with the next-door vets surgery... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 2 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: We really must stop making such observations about curry houses and Chinese take aways! 😁 This is 2023. Such attempts at ‘humour’ like this belong to the 1970s and before. steve 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 29, 2023 The cats meat man was a street trader in the poorer parts of Victorian London. He used to sell scraps of meat, ostensibly for cats but probably eaten by humans. Most of the meat was horse meat from the many knackers yards in the East End. 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 6 hours ago, Hroth said: Behave, or I'll dig out my photo of the Chinese takaway, with the next-door vets surgery... 3 hours ago, steve1 said: This is 2023. Such attempts at ‘humour’ like this belong to the 1970s and before. steve Well I fully intend to use this sign on my layout in due course.... I probably downloaded it from right here on RMweb... 😂😝👍 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 Ok, that's it... 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 8 minutes ago, Hroth said: Ok, that's it... 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinRS Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 I suspect we have all had horse-meat. Does anyone remember the horse-meat scandal from 2013? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 30, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2023 1 hour ago, MartinRS said: I suspect we have all had horse-meat. Does anyone remember the horse-meat scandal from 2013? Round about then a visiting priest - Irish of course - started his homily with the joke: What do you put on a beefburger these days? £5 each way. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted August 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2023 52 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: What do you put on a beefburger these days? 1 2 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 Re the horse meat scandal, there was a comment on TV - probably "Have I got News For You", or "Mock the Week" - anyway the gist of it was that scientists had conducted tests on Tesco's burgers and were just impressed that there was any meat in them at all..... 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted August 30, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, MartinRS said: I just noticed that the guy appears to have no right arm; look at the bottom of his right sleeve. 🙄 Edited August 30, 2023 by J. S. Bach To correct a typo. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 30, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2023 25 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: I just noticed that the guy appears to have no right arm; look at the bottom of his right sleeve. 🙄 If thats the case whats that hanging out of the leg of his shorts? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted August 30, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2023 A leg? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 In true Panto style IT'S BEHIND HIM! Don't people normally walk with one arm in front and one behind? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 33 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said: In true Panto style IT'S BEHIND HIM! Don't people normally walk with one arm in front and one behind? Sometimes it looks rather odd.... 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2E Sub Shed Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 5 hours ago, F-UnitMad said: Re the horse meat scandal, there was a comment on TV - probably "Have I got News For You", or "Mock the Week" - anyway the gist of it was that scientists had conducted tests on Tesco's burgers and were just impressed that there was any meat in them at all..... Once came across a product made by a company (name omitted in case they are still trading) called "Caterburgers", allegedly due to the lack of meat in the product. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 30, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2023 20 hours ago, JZ said: Typical, doesn't say what variety of dog.............😄 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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