Medieval horse meat...

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/07/medieval-diets-horsemeat-was-still-on-the-menu/

Shergar burgers....

[Martin Smith]

Still available in Belgium...Vlammse carbonade (or similar).  🐴🐴🐴

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Jim Webster]

I used to comment that I'd eaten horse more recently than I'd ridden on one, but then thanks to Tesco and the other supermarkets with their burger scandal, most people can say that

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Ian61]

Never understood the horsemeat problem. Not using it seems a waste.

[Andreas Johansson]

I used to comment that I'd eaten horse more recently than I'd ridden on one, but then thanks to Tesco and the other supermarkets with their burger scandal, most people can say that

Hm. Despite living in a country where eating horsemeat is a considerably more common than in the Anglosphere, and certainly being no sort of equestrian, I think I've  ridden a horse more recently than I've eaten one. Assuming, of course, that I haven't fallen prey to some similar scandal recently.

[Jim Webster]

Never understood the horsemeat problem. Not using it seems a waste.

Because horse meat apparently featured heavily in religious feasts in the pagan period. When Christianity arrived in 'England', feasting on horse meat was discouraged.
When I was in Iceland I was impressed with their attitude to horse rearing. Effectively they were run as suckler herds with the nicest offspring going for riding and the others going for meat.

[Nick Harbud]

In 1916 an Anglo-Indian army at Kut in Iraq was forced to surrender.  The Turkish victors were somewhat dismayed that recovery of captured artillery pieces would prove to be difficult on account of the garrison having eaten the draught teams.

 

[Erpingham]

While in the UK, the horsemeat scandal was about eating horse, elsewhere in the EU it was about mislabelling and putting unfit meat into the human food chain. The EU imports a lot of horsemeat from countries such as Argentina and Canada and smaller quantities from the UK. While it is true that the original issue with horsemeat eating was condemnation by the church as a pagan practice, this seems to have long gone, even in Catholic European countries.

[Cantabrigian]

I think I've  ridden a horse more recently than I've eaten one.

Presumably not the same horse?

[Imperial Dave]

You hope ride before eat not the other way around

[Andreas Johansson]

I think I've  ridden a horse more recently than I've eaten one.

Presumably not the same horse?

One does not ride dead horses, one flogs them.

[Erpingham]

One does not ride dead horses, one flogs them.

Mainly to the EU, presumably.

[Duncan Head]

One does not ride dead horses...

Binky?