One of my good Canadian friends going to BC, and wants to buy some horse meat at a shop there.

Methinks I'll pass on that.

I’ve had zebra. Wasn’t bad. Very lean.

I’d be happy to try it.

Young mare or gelding? I’m sure either fed out well would be decent eating.

I would eat it.

The French eat a lot of horse.

I guess they fatten them just like a fat beef......not like a fois gras!

I’ve never eaten one but have always wanted to. Personally I can’t think of a better use for the hay burning bastiges.

Why not.
A friend and his brothers wanted to buy an auction horse and butcher it.
Nice looking animals often go for $1-200. Money maker if you are crooked enough
to sell it as burger.

Their mother got wind of it and put the kibash on that.

Afraid of the chiit storm in the community if word got out.

I offered to buy some steak if they went through with it.

I've eaten horse a number of times in Europe.

It was OK, and not really particularly distinctive in taste -- with spices or a sauce, you couldn't tell it was horsie.

In fact in 2013 there was a huge scandal in the EU about horse being included in a lot of meat products in which there should have been only beef.

This made for some interesting memes:






John

another name for horse meat is > BULLY-BEEF ,my father in law was a America soldier in World War 2 as a airplane mechanic but he other American soldiers were with the British division ,they chased ROMO all over Africa and other places i was told. they all ate alot of Bully Beef mostly canned .

I've never had it, but have never understood the aversion to it, Colonel Potter notwithstanding.

I probably ate it when I was a kid. It used to be in all the stores. Just some early political correctness.

Seems like it would be a lot less cost effective per pound than fattening up cattle. Im sure you ranchers have some numbers on that.

I happen to like horses, and would never consider one as food. Maybe if I was starving to death, but that's a bridge I'll cross when I get to it. Until then, beef, pork, turkey, chicken, or fish.

I don't think there is a food horse raising program.
More a factor of, "there is meat on the hoof. Let's make it meat
on the plate".

Very cost effective to take a 1200 pound animal that won't go past $150
Dollars at auction, and turn it into 300 pound of $3/lb burger.

my great uncle in ww1 ate a great deal of horse, if they could find it, crossing europe. he said it was better than nothing.

I would eat someone elses horse ,but not my own..

Probably make damn good pepperoni summer sausage etc

https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/one-thing-you-probably-never-knew-about-authentic-belgian-fries

it's a lot better than dog

Manager of a big outfit here that is pretty western has roasted up yearling horses for brandings in the past. Usually uses a yearling that got busted up and wouldn’t recover.

I'm not gonna go looking for it but I'd probably try some.

In 1973 when beef prices went nuts a bar in Syracuse, NY (East Syracuse actually) made a fortune selling horseburgers. Mostly for the novelty. Word was they were OK, sort of like low grade beef (lean). Wasn't my kind of bar so I never tried one.

Of course horse people said, "Neigh!"

It is indeed lean, fine-grained, and mild tasting. It's a bit similar to veal.

Ate plenty when I lived in Kazakhstan. Zebra too. All good.

It's the breakfast of Iditarod champions!

Seriously?

The four-legged champions. I know mushers who have sliced a steak or two from a horse they butchered for the dogs.