Would you eat horse?

Question

I wouldn't...but my friend Louise does. She's from Italy and they'll eat anything.

well why not I suppose. I've never seen it for sale in the U.K. Probably start a riot.

Answer 1

I'm belgian so we eat horse meat. The region I live is actually renowned for it's horse sausages in tomato sauce (lovely with chips)
You should go to france they'll make saucisson sec(dried saussage) out of basically everry meat you can think of like goats meat Donkey meat(very nice) etc.
I met a couple cajuns a few weeks ago who actually explained to me how to cook such things as possum, squirrel and alligator!
I never quite got the shock you English folk get when talking about eating horse meat. Is it more dignified to send that animal to the glue factory then!!! if I were a horse I'd prefer to be eaten as to end up as glue

Answer 2

I would usually say no way, but when I think that we are not starving like the rest of the world, its not on. I think if we really think of how animals are farmed and killed, we wouldn't eat anything at all. I get annoyed with the knitted yogurt brigade, as they will starve come the revolution!!!!!! Actually, if the truth be known, we don't know what goes in to anything. My family are veggies, and eat the most disgusting things and are addicted to chocolate, which has some dodgy fats in it. So the debate will run so will the horse if someone gives me that to eat,

Italians eat fabulously, and wouldnt eat it if it didn't taste good.

My brother would eat it, but he is a pig and that would be eating one of his own. My dog would eat it but I couldn't get it on his plate.
Give it a go and tell us all how you got on. XX

Answer 3

I've unknowningly eaten both horsemeat and seal. The horsemeat was served raw in Japan, and my host said 'Just try it you'll like it.' It was fine. Many countries eat horse meat. I haven't sought it out since though.
The seal was served to me on the east coast of Canada where I went to work one summer in a rec program. Again, I didn't know before hand. It had funny bones, and was very salty (to preserve it.) It was also stringy, but I liked it. I'm into the fur boycott thing, but for food it is not an issue for me.

Answer 4

I wouldn't eat horse, no. Although, if I were thrust into a survival situation, I would possibly eat virtually anything with protein in it.

Except for the liver of a canivore like a bear or a cat. That would kill you from a lethal overdose of Vitamin A.

But horse? Outside of wartime or a post - Apocalyptic setting? No.

Answer 5

I know the expression is: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse", but I don't think that would even be a concept! It would probably be too tough, anyway.

Has Louise REALLY eaten horse before? What did she think of the texture?
Ugh.

Answer 6

Quite a few English people ate horse meat during the 2ND world war,i was a young girl and used to go to the horse meat butcher every saturday for my nan and a good meal was had by all.

Answer 7

No I would not. I have eaten whale meat though. I can remember when I was a child during and just after world war 2 there was a horsemeat shop near where I lived in london and a neighbour used to buy it. My father used to buy it too for our dog. He used to boil it and it smelled horrible. I felt sticky when it was raw.

By the way, the whale meat was like steak.

Answer 8

Once a French gentleman was showing me around the island of St. Pierre, when we came upon some horses grazing. He asked me if I knew what they were for.

Just by the way he asked his question, I knew he was trying to shock me, so I said, yes, you eat them. He was shocked that I would guess, so I explained that I've eaten horse meat in Japan.

He was doubly shocked so I went even further and told him that in Japan, horses are eaten raw.

Answer 9

Not consciously. It's a cultural thing (I'm English), and a personal choice (I won't eat anything that I have had as a pet). I understand that other cultures are happy to eat animals that I would not class as foodstuffs, but then, the same can be said of me; we should all respect each others' choice to eat what they want, as long as it doesn't involve cruelty to the animal.

Answer 10

No but I knew people in southern Alberta that did. They said it was very good. Almost sweet. I love and own horses so it would be like eating a dog but people do that too.