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Yeah I get that (sounds revolting BTW) but I had more in mind their ready meals when asking my question.

I wasnt aware they did any other products other than the crispy pancakes until this week!
 
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The crispy pancakes are in most supermarkets, whack them in the microwave for a couple minutes. They're a batter with a concoption in the middle, said to be cheese and ham is their main flavour.

They are much better if you oven bake them.;)
 

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Yeah I get that (sounds revolting BTW) but I had more in mind their ready meals when asking my question.

It will be interesting to see how long it will take before the supermarkets regain their stated 30% market share loss of the oven-ready meal market.

In the meantime, the local butchers shops seem to be enjoying a goodly-size increase in the uptake of their products.
 

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Tesco are offering double Clubcard points on petrol and burger sales. They're calling the offer "Only fuels and horses". :lol:<D

Courtesy of the drivers facilities at Crewe bus station.
 

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Personally speaking I have no problem with eating horse provided it has entered the system correctly and is safe to eat. The problem with the horsemeat being found in products at the moment is that its not passed any testing and thats simply not on.

I wouldn't be surprised if when all this is investigated properly that some fault isn't laid at the supermarkets pressurising suppliers to cut costs down to the bone (no pun intended) therefore I will be attempting to buy more meat from local butchers from now on if I cannot be certain of where the supermarket has located their meat from and I think we should all try and do this.
 

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Am I the only one on here who has purchased ( and cooked and eaten some of them ) frozen burgers since all this started?
 

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Recently we heard that Ikea withdrew its famous meatballs due to traces of horsemeat. A few days ago the famous hot dogs had the same fate.

Today there has been more new of horsemeat being found in more BirdsEye products, Taco Bell products and in food supplied by Brakes Brothers.

Where will it end?
 

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Who actually are 'Findus?' I've never heard of them; what kind of shops do you buy their products in as I don't think I've ever seen their items on display. A Google search doesn't do much either, only finding results for Findus Crispy Pancakes and Findus horse scandal.

I see them occasionally in Morrison's.

When you look at a situation where a French company was selling ready meals in the UK, having used a Luxembourg-based subsidiary to procure meat from Romania, using a French distributor and a Dutch-owned agency based in Cyprus, it begins to be clear why frozen meat products are often of low quality. Supermarkets are holding prices down, everyone is taking their cut along the way, so the base ingredient has been bought for not very much at all.
 

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Recently we heard that Ikea withdrew its famous meatballs due to traces of horse meat. A few days ago the famous hot dogs had the same fate.

In fairness the meatballs are called meatballs, so there is no real problem what goes into them as long as its meat. As for the hot dogs, I'm surprised they are allowed to label them as sausages, not just brown plastic
 

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I'm making burgers tonight for tea. Theoretically they should be beef though in light of recent events who knows! They certainly look beef like...
 

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I'm making burgers tonight for tea. Theoretically they should be beef though in light of recent events who knows! They certainly look beef like...

Horse meat looks like beef, it would take an expert to differentiate.
 

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Dont worry about it really

Horsemeat contains essential amino acids and polyunsaturated fats that help to reduce cholesterol.

Compared with other types of meat, it contains greater quantities of trace elements: calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, copper, magnesium, silicon, zinc and nickel.

It is rich in group B, A, PP and E vitamins

Attached is a picture of horse meat. Having eaten horse in france, it to me was much more tender than beef steak, and didnt dry out on the BBQ like beef steak would!!!
 

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It's not the meat that's the problem.

It's the anti inflammatory drug (phenylbutazone, bute for short) that poorly horses are given for various reasons.

It was declare unsafe for humans a few years ago, and AFAIK it's quite dangerous stuff. Poorly horsey = dead horsey?

Of course, you probably have to eat tons of the stuff before it becomes a problem
 

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It's not the meat that's the problem.

It's the anti inflammatory drug (phenylbutazone, bute for short) that poorly horses are given for various reasons.

It was declare unsafe for humans a few years ago, and AFAIK it's quite dangerous stuff. Poorly horsey = dead horsey?

Of course, you probably have to eat tons of the stuff before it becomes a problem

have the horses in the food chain been administered this medicine though?
 

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Reassuring to hear that despite the involvement of Burger King, McDonalds have been unaffected by the horsemeat issue.

From ITV:
Jill McDonald said:
We voluntarily provided samples of all beef burgers currently available on our menu to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for their own tests.

All tests, including our own, have now been completed and we can confirm that no horsemeat has been found in any of McDonald's products.

Our beef supply chain is short and transparent and has just five simple steps from the farms through to the food we serve in our restaurants.

Her name is a coincidence, by the way!
 
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It's not the meat that's the problem.

It's the anti inflammatory drug (phenylbutazone, bute for short) that poorly horses are given for various reasons.

It was declare unsafe for humans a few years ago, and AFAIK it's quite dangerous stuff. Poorly horsey = dead horsey?

Of course, you probably have to eat tons of the stuff before it becomes a problem

500 infected pure horse burgers a day would be deadly IIRC

But then 500 beef burgers wouldn't do you much good either :lol:
 

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Reassuring to hear that despite the involvement of Burger King, McDonalds have been unaffected by the horsemeat issue.

From ITV:


Her name is a coincidence, by the way!

Having previous worked for said company, I can only vouch they know where every burger came from, all of their beef was british and they used to take selected employees to visit all their suppliers
 

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I too am having burgers tonight, but these claim to be beef-free! I was in Waitrose earlier and saw on the butcher's counter they had boar burgers reduced so thought I'd give them a go.
 

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Having previous worked for said company, I can only vouch they know where every burger came from, all of their beef was british and they used to take selected employees to visit all their suppliers
McDonalds have been very careful over the past years to choose suppliers, and now with this scandal coming out with competitors it has paid off!
 
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