Horseburgers - what animals have you eaten?

[copper_head]

Im pretty game for anything, but highlights have to include woodlice and ant larvae. Not too bad in all honesty but its not going to replace my saturday night steak

 

[Wayland]

I think the only exotic thing I could add to these lists is whale.

Ate it a few times out in Norway. A bit like beef but very tender and with a liverish flavour to it.

 

[geordienemisis]

I did a course whilst serving in the UK Armed Forces, which included a survival stage During this I had to kill, gut, & skin an old Ewe which we ate. Also Fox was part of the menu along with Sun dried worms. It was a great course but after a while all the meat we cooked tasted the same, with a different texture. All great fun for all who attended.

 

[Paul_B]

It surprised me how few have tried zebra. Its nice minced in a burger. Much better tgan kudu.

If anyone goes to Skye then i can recommend a burger van at the carpark in the middle of the Trotternish ridge. Just south oft the section with that plateau rock. They do burgers in a few interesting meat sources. They're nice and gd value too. Big burgers too.

 

[santaman2000]

Amazing that you can consider tripe almost exotic when once it was the staple meat of any paupers diet!

It certainly wasn't uncommon among earlier generations here either. I had it several times as a child with my family. Hence I broadened the category from "exotic" to include "less normal." But I don't think it ever was quite a "staple" here though.

I just remembered another food I've eaten that might fall into the same category (once more common but now not so much so) Hog brains. Also eaten as a child in the form of brains and eggs (hog brains scrambled with eggs)

And another seafood I've eaten that's gone the opposite route: Lobster. In the 17th century it was considerred a paupers food (taken accidentally while fishing for crab or other species) and fed to the servants who later went on strike if they were forced to eat it more than 4 times a week! Now it's an expensive treat.

 

[Paul_B]

Brawn is brain iirc. That's common once in different recipes in uk and france i believe.
Had snails, whelks and winkles. Last one was alive in a salad of tge sea in a french restaurant in vendee area. Mmmm!

Had donkey sausages bought un spain but eaten in france. Nice enough.

Personally i find there are so many things in our foods that you have no idea what it is oor even that it's there. So the only real outrage here is that the meat companies were.surprised by the findings. I don't care if one meat burger has other species in them. That's a very common practice anyway. My issue is that if the presence of horse is a surprise it implies they have no qyality and product control. That means they cannot guarantee their product is safe. That is the issue but everyone is angry about tge horse flesh. Hypocricy imho.

There are too many horses being bred in tge uk for denand. Where are tgey ending up? Horse meat butchers!!!

 

[Mesquite]

Exotics

Zebra
Pike
Crocodile
Ostrich
Muntjac
Rocky Mountain Oysters

 

[Imagedude]

I had some Tesco burgers last night, I've still got a bit in my teeth. I selected them on the Tesco online store then clicked 'add to cart'. I've tried to order exotic meats from the Tesco meat counter.... but I was flogging a dead horse. I've heard that Tesco's veggie burgers are being tested for traces of uniquorn.
I've heard that Tesco's meatballs are the dog's ********
I'll get my coat...

 

[santaman2000]

....Personally i find there are so many things in our foods that you have no idea what it is oor even that it's there. So the only real outrage here is that the meat companies were.surprised by the findings. I don't care if one meat burger has other species in them. That's a very common practice anyway.....

Not here. Hamburger by definition is beef. Not neccessarily any particular cut of beef (unless the label specifies a particular cut) but beef none=the-less. Other meats used as any form of "burger" must be marketted as whatever they are: lamb-burgers, or buffalo-burgers for example. Even the ubiquitous hot dog must list all ingredients on the label.

That said there are issues with quality control here as well and I think that is indeed the point of the surprise there as you suggested.

 

[wicca]

In spite of all the hoo haa I've just read a statement from Tesco that states that sales of their burgers remain stable..

 

[swright81076]

In spite of all the hoo haa I've just read a statement from Tesco that states that sales of their burgers remain stable..

Wait till they analyse the quarter pandas. ....... I'll get my coat.

touched by nature

 

[bikething]

Pigs head / tongue / cheek / heart / liver / kidneys roasted over an open fire
pigs intestines washed out in the river and barbecued over an open fire (kinda like thick sausage skins without the sausage )

This was all from a freshly killed pig while staying at an Iban longhouse in Borneo

Also on the same trip had various dishes of cooked wasps, ants, bugs etc..

and deep fried sago grubs - they had a bony little skull - was like eating a slug with a crash helmet

 

[gsfgaz]

I'm starving , i could eat a horse , boom boom ...

 

[John Fenna]

Kudu
Ostrich
Springbok (the antelope not a Rugby player...)
the worm in a tequila bottle
Deep fried insects - puportedly cockroach...
Wild boar (uncooked)
Bush pig
Goat
Horse
Squid
Octopus
Shark (disgusting)
Cheap take away curry ("meat")
Raw fish
Snails (terrible!)
Fried Spiders
Woodlice
and those are just the most noteworthy ... even some of those are fairly normal....

 

[santaman2000]

....Shark (disgusting)....

Interesting. Shark is one of the fish often used by unscrupulous fishmongers to substitute for a higher quality fish (meaning they deliberately mis label it) Including scallops.

 

[santaman2000]

Pigs head / tongue / cheek / heart / liver / kidneys roasted over an open fire
pigs intestines washed out in the river and barbecued over an open fire (kinda like thick sausage skins without the sausage )

This was all from a freshly killed pig while staying at an Iban longhouse in Borneo

Also on the same trip had various dishes of cooked wasps, ants, bugs etc..

and deep fried sago grubs - they had a bony little skull - was like eating a slug with a crash helmet

.
The pigs' intestines are what I was referring to when I said "chitlins." Never had them boiled myself but I've smelled them cooking that way. We used to eat them deep cut up like crisps and fried.

 

[dwardo]

Bought a "deep Fried" Rat in Lagos, Nigeria by mistake!!! Saw all these people walking around with paper cones eating the contents!!! Thought it was a chip seller Tried a back leg but found it a bit "Greasy" so left the rest!!!!

Daft thing is, if they had said that the burgers were a 100% horse I might have bought one.
I wonder too if the 30% horse was the only meat in the "budget burgers"

 

[John Fenna]

Interesting. Shark is one of the fish often used by unscrupulous fishmongers to substitute for a higher quality fish (meaning they deliberately mis label it) Including scallops.

Shark fin soup is like fishy slimy tapioca pudding - foul stuff!

 

[tenderfoot]

I clearly have no idea what exotic things have unwittingly passed my lips as i habitually shop at tesco....

 

[santaman2000]

Shark fin soup is like fishy slimy tapioca pudding - foul stuff!

Ahh. Now I understand. I thought you meant the actual shark meat.