NPR

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 11:46 am

Top marks to the teacher, too.

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:38 am

Both are wrong. It’s for fuck’s sake. I.e. for the sake of fuck. The sake belongs to the fuck.

Biffer wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:03 pm

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:38 am

Both are wrong. It’s for fuck’s sake. I.e. for the sake of fuck. The sake belongs to the fuck.

But who is the fuck? And can you be both the fuck... and giver of fucks?

I hear horse is more common than we might expect in Europe? Are these typically old horses that are no longer 'useful' or bred specifically for food?

Niegs wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:29 pm I hear horse is more common than we might expect in Europe? Are these typically old horses that are no longer 'useful' or bred specifically for food?

Not sure. I found out that donkey is on menus in Sardinia. Before we went there I was going to give it a go but my nerve went when it came to it, just seemed wrong.

Be very careful before you piss off scaffolders

Cat does not want you anywhere near the watermelons.

Niegs wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:29 pm I hear horse is more common than we might expect in Europe? Are these typically old horses that are no longer 'useful' or bred specifically for food?

Amsterdam's highest-rated steak house was rumbled a few years back when a disgruntled ex-employee revealed they had been serving horse steak for years. They briefly tried to pretend it was a one-off mistake but when years worth of invoices from the horse butcher were made public they acknowledged it and simply said horse is much tastier and succulent than beef.

I don't think there are horse farms that breed them for food so it's generally work or sports horses coming to the end of their natural life that end up on a plate.

And I must admit - few types of meat are tastier than horse.

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:11 pm Be very careful before you piss off scaffolders

Liam Wms used to be one, enough said.

clydecloggie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:40 pm

Niegs wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:29 pm I hear horse is more common than we might expect in Europe? Are these typically old horses that are no longer 'useful' or bred specifically for food?

Amsterdam's highest-rated steak house was rumbled a few years back when a disgruntled ex-employee revealed they had been serving horse steak for years. They briefly tried to pretend it was a one-off mistake but when years worth of invoices from the horse butcher were made public they acknowledged it and simply said horse is much tastier and succulent than beef.

I don't think there are horse farms that breed them for food so it's generally work or sports horses coming to the end of their natural life that end up on a plate.

And I must admit - few types of meat are tastier than horse.

Horse are bred for food in France at least. (you would not touch race horse with a fork as they are full of meds).

laurent wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:51 pm

clydecloggie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:40 pm

Niegs wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:29 pm I hear horse is more common than we might expect in Europe? Are these typically old horses that are no longer 'useful' or bred specifically for food?

Amsterdam's highest-rated steak house was rumbled a few years back when a disgruntled ex-employee revealed they had been serving horse steak for years. They briefly tried to pretend it was a one-off mistake but when years worth of invoices from the horse butcher were made public they acknowledged it and simply said horse is much tastier and succulent than beef.

I don't think there are horse farms that breed them for food so it's generally work or sports horses coming to the end of their natural life that end up on a plate.

And I must admit - few types of meat are tastier than horse.

Horse are bred for food in France at least. (you would not touch race horse with a fork as they are full of meds).

I have had horse a couple of times in France. It was nice and a little more expensive than steak.

Due to inadequate language skills I managed to order brain and chips when trying to order horse once.

laurent wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:51 pm

clydecloggie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:40 pm

Niegs wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:29 pm I hear horse is more common than we might expect in Europe? Are these typically old horses that are no longer 'useful' or bred specifically for food?

Amsterdam's highest-rated steak house was rumbled a few years back when a disgruntled ex-employee revealed they had been serving horse steak for years. They briefly tried to pretend it was a one-off mistake but when years worth of invoices from the horse butcher were made public they acknowledged it and simply said horse is much tastier and succulent than beef.

I don't think there are horse farms that breed them for food so it's generally work or sports horses coming to the end of their natural life that end up on a plate.

And I must admit - few types of meat are tastier than horse.

Horse are bred for food in France at least. (you would not touch race horse with a fork as they are full of meds).

But at least if you did eat one, you'd get 50 to 1 in the 3.30 at Newmarket..

TB63 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:15 pm

laurent wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:51 pm

clydecloggie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:40 pm

Amsterdam's highest-rated steak house was rumbled a few years back when a disgruntled ex-employee revealed they had been serving horse steak for years. They briefly tried to pretend it was a one-off mistake but when years worth of invoices from the horse butcher were made public they acknowledged it and simply said horse is much tastier and succulent than beef.

I don't think there are horse farms that breed them for food so it's generally work or sports horses coming to the end of their natural life that end up on a plate.

And I must admit - few types of meat are tastier than horse.

Horse are bred for food in France at least. (you would not touch race horse with a fork as they are full of meds).

But at least if you did eat one, you'd get 50 to 1 in the 3.30 at Newmarket..

Yeah, I was just going to post that you'll see the horse head outside the butcher's shop in France if they sell horse meat - not an actual Godfather type, a painted one.

I fenced land that was used to rear horses for meat in France.

It seems strange to me that some people are squeamish about it but are fine with eating beef or pork. However I knew a chef in the Pyrenees that had eaten elephant in Paris and I don't think I could do that.

Horse is not that uncommon in restaurants in Japan, usually eaten raw as with fish as sashimi.

There's a pub in High Wycombe that serves every type of meat under the Sun, horse and zebra included..

Went to Carnivore in Nairobi in mid 1990's. Ate lots of things. Very tasy .... the giraffe sandwich was very long !!

Ate horse quiet often while living in Belgium. Also very tasty.

It is the European taste for horse meat that means all equines in Europe have to have micro chips and physical passports. Part of the passport records the medication the horse animal has had and if that excludes it from the human food chain.

There are campaigns to end horse slaughter for meat in the UK. A lot people in the equine industry in the UK oppose this on the basis that humane slaughter for meat gives the animal a value, whereas any other disposal method is a cost. Princess Anne is one prominent supporter of this. Animals that have a value tend to be treated better at end of life than those that do not leading to abandonment and other welfare issues.

One of the big issues in the UK is that horses are treated as pets and not farm animals despite their size and difficulty in keeping. It is indicative of the attitudes in the UK that one very well known stud for a particular breed almost went out of business when it was revealed that they kept the quality and value of their output high by not selling the poorer quality animals they bred, but sent them for slaughter for meat instead.

Since this is supposed to be a picture thread, here are the stallions we use on our Welsh Cobs and Sports Horses respectively.

Sadly closed now.. Was called the Sausage Tree..

vball wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:33 am Went to Carnivore in Nairobi in mid 1990's. Ate lots of things. Very tasy .... the giraffe sandwich was very long !!

Ate horse quiet often while living in Belgium. Also very tasty.

I did the same in early 95. Great spot.

EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 8:47 am

TB63 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 10:11 am Sadly closed now.. Was called the Sausage Tree..

the-sausage-tree.jpg

There was a phase about 15 years ago were restaurants had crocodile and ostrich and all that malarkey on it in Ireland. It tasted like it had been defrosted because it had.

Their meat tasted quite fresh..

Though it was run by a dodgy paddy and Whipsnade zoo was up the road....

Sometimes it is better to GTFO of Dodge

Someone is about to be in a heap of doodoo

A rare picture of Dozey

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 5:12 pm

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 5:12 pm

Twenty to forty times a day apparently. Well they don’t have the internet do they?

I know they say "There's no 'I' in team", but

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:44 pm

Is there where they got “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle” from?

Samson Lee's ancestor found!

Like a Renaissance painting!

Niegs wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:15 pm Like a Renaissance painting!