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News Tesco unwittingly selling horse burgers...
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Wazzerphuk
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Well, you kill horses and you live in France so you eat them as well. Not sure why you're braying on about it.
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Horse is a perfectly acceptable thing to eat, only you commoners dislike it.
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When sold as beefburger? We do have trade description laws you know...
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Its only traces from being prepared in a place that also does pork - these burgers arent Kosha/Halal so no one really offendable should be eating them.
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And more importantly - why does the article not name the products in question so we can, if we want, remove them from our freezers?
That's what you get if you buy pre-prepared food tbfh. I quite like horse, but when I want a beefburger I get lean mince and make my own. They're a bazillion times better and healthier than the shit you get from the supermarkets tbfh.
In fact, my purchasing of pre-prepared food is at an absolute minimum. Other than cererals and, erm, nope. Can't think of anything else.
BTW - horse is quite nice.
That's what you get if you buy pre-prepared food tbfh. I quite like horse, but when I want a beefburger I get lean mince and make my own. They're a bazillion times better and healthier than the shit you get from the supermarkets tbfh.
In fact, my purchasing of pre-prepared food is at an absolute minimum. Other than cererals and, erm, nope. Can't think of anything else.
BTW - horse is quite nice.
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To be fair, it was obviously going to be the value range.
But 29% is shocking really. Funny tho
To be fair, I don't find that they're breaching standards at all suprising - it's just the scale:
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Horse burgers make your dicks grow bigger. Its science innit.
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They don't mind being "scammed" is the problem - because it's a nice way to improve their bottom line in a way that they can plausibly deny.
I have a cousin who's currently being hounded by both corporate interests and mafioso as he campaigns and advises governments (including EU and UK) on how to get fish policy correct. A lot of companies import illegal fish stocks because of price. The black market is huge in fish feed products (usually illegally caught fish, sold to fisheries to feed fish - and it takes 4lbs of illegally caught fish to produce 1lb of fish for our supermarket shelves - go figure eh?).
He regularly receives death threats and has had to move country several times on the advice of police and security services. Sometimes he gets arrested going into countries as corporate interests are using their money to persecute him.
Good on him tbfh.
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From what i've read these are the value, lowest price "own brand" burgers. Rather than normal or premium. The meat that goes into those things is the worst parts of the animal. Adding horse to it probably brings up the overall quality of the meat
Horse meat is also fairly expensive, adding it to value burgers would end up costing them, unless theres something wrong with the meat....
Re the second part of the story which is trace pork in burgers...this is more than likly down to a machine not being cleaned properly between mincing pork and then mincing beef.....but i'm sure there will be an Aldi on fire soon..
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That's what I meant.
totally agree.
heh, sometimes it's better to not look in the kitchen (not literally natch).From what i've read these are the value, lowest price "own brand" burgers. Rather than normal or premium. The meat that goes into those things is the worst parts of the animal. Adding horse to it probably brings up the overall quality of the meat
yup. I guess you're right.
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Hopefully will get people thinking about what 'processed food' actually means.
The meat came from an Irish company, which was sourcing it from the continent.
People wonder how supermarkets are able to undercut local retailers, this is the answer.
The meat came from an Irish company, which was sourcing it from the continent.
People wonder how supermarkets are able to undercut local retailers, this is the answer.
