Food I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse

I want to know also!! For some reason eating horse meat doesn't bother me nearly as much as eating dog meat. Then again I don't think I'll be rushing out to buy it if my local supermarket offered it. I probably wouldn't vomit if I ate it unknowingly though.

 

Its a taste all its own but yes, it'd be closest to beef if I had a choice, throw in a little goat as well... I love it, its sort of a game flavoured beef. We mostly had it as a deli meat but damn.... its so good, now I want some!!!
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First time I tried it, I didn't know what it was and then my mom let the cat out of the bag.... and my life was changed forever..... I ate Ed.

 

I don't have a problem with the idea of eating horses, but I don't think I would ever eat it. I'm not a big fan of beef, venison, or goat and with streaks description, I doubt I'd like it.

 

Course, in Oz there are many more critters that will kill you and not eat you (as well as many that will do both and many that will eat you if they find you dead...)

/ NTTAWWT
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Keep your horses, Fly. If they make you happy, that's cool. On the other hand, what better final send off for a friend that to make them into a series of fantastic meals. I think done with the right attitude and respect, that could be very, very cool.

With all that said, I keep fish and breed them, but that doesn't stop me from eating fish that are caught for eating. Not quite the same thing, as the number of fish that develop a discernible personality is quite small, and the number that are even capable of it is tiny. But one of the only times in my adult life that I have broken down sobbing is after putting my dog down and carrying him to the vet's car to take to the crematorium. I'd still eat dog if it were prepared appetizingly enough.

This made me giggle. Not that I agree, but the eloquence is arresting. :-D
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Needless to say, I would eat horse. Particularly horses bred for food and treated like Kobe Beef cows. Protein is protein; it's taste that matters.

 

hey........if you wanna eat horse go ahead.......chicken,pig,cow,sheep.....whatever........all I'm sayin' is.........don't eat my horses.

they will be cremated when they die...........humane and all that shit...no glue,no dog food..I just don't see the consumption of horse in my diet...,maybe being on the horse owner side of it has tainted my tastebuds but..........I couldn't do it
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Top....maybe I've been brainwashed into the norm in regards to meat..........I mean,if I were stuck in the bush,yeah.......I'd eat what I could kill.......but,being an owner......(maybe they are pets)......I don't know regardless,whether I could eat a horse.

or a dog for that matter..........must be the pet syndrome portion of my brain but........probably couldn't do it.

kinda makin' me think about all the other animals I have ingested.......

 

This is a question I don't need to confront, personally, since horses aren't kosher, and for me, that's the end of the story.

But I could imagine that if I didn't keep kosher, I probably would be okay with eating horse. Lots of cultures do so and have done so, and I don't see much difference in horses from cows or sheep or pigs or the various other creatures people regularly eat as meat.

My friends and I have sometimes shot the shit about what we might or might not try if we didn't keep kosher: so far the only things we've all agreed we could never eat for ethical reasons are orangoutans, chimps, gorillas, and cetaceans, which just seem far, far too close to intelligent awareness than other animals. Most of us also felt we couldn't eat insects, but that was pretty much for the ick factor.

Horses? Why not?

 

Sounds like venison/elk/moose to me. I would probably have some cultural hangups if I knew what it was, but if not, meat is meat. It's not as if people in the USA haven't ever eaten it before in times of need.

 

Not that it actually needs one, but that there is the best defense of vegetarianism I've seen.

However, Do understand that, when I say "protein is protein", that's half the story. The other half is "how does it taste?" Which is why I wouldn't limit myself to plants, but neither would I exclude them.

 

I hear that if undercooked, it can give you the trots

 

HA!
That said, Horse sushi is a Japanese regional specialty. Particularly the line of fat that underlies the skin under the mane.

 

Stop horsin' around.

 

who'd want to after your ass has been all over them!

 

Will I stop? Neigh

 

Geez, this thread is going to give me nightmares.

 

I'm beginning to think some of the folks posting here are unstable.

 

Yep, it's gotten off track quickly. A simple case of hoof in mouth, I'm sure.

 

Horses are no different than the rest of us animals. They know a jerkwad when they see one.