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** Breaking News** Todmorden abbatoir alledgedly suppying horsemeat to a burger meat processing plant. A bit close to home the Clarets fans I reckon :rolleyes: Hows that chant of theirs go?
"And it's no neigh never !!"
:enough:

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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well everyone kept saying "oh im so hungry i could eat a horse" well i guess we all got our wish. although i did clear out burgers and stuff from my freezer lol.. as a per-caution. them lasagnes contained like 99% or something. thank god i make alot of stuff from scratch :d x

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and still find room furt saddle:D

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I think the mane thing here is that we've probably all been eating it for donkey's years without knowing.

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wonder when the conclusion for the mcdonalds tests are coming out:confused:

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Negative result - no DNA in cardboard.

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Just happened on this

Castoreum - 18 Grossest Food Ingredients - Health.com

number 11 will please Eric (a canadian export)

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Reading up on Shallac, it says that it is a resin secretion of an insect that feeds on certain trees, mailnly in Thailand and India.
If you want to go further on the subject of secretions, then add Honey Bees to you list, they drink nectar from flowering plants, then return to the hive and regurgitate it back up into wax cells, the wax is another secretion from Bees. Then we have fertilisers, again mostly secretions from various animals, and some of it has a right pong.

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Well, being a cut above the rest of you... :P

I had a personal email today, from the boss of Tesco promising that, just for me, he's going to tighten up on DNA testing and create a website where I can check what's in the stuff I can buy from his store.

You plebs can carry on eating equineburgers...Philip Clarke (my mate) says mine will be full of pure beef...... testicles, nasal hair and earwax.... It's nice to have friends in high places

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my kebab tasted fine last night,,,

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had a tesco burger today and it tasted funny


when i looked on the side it said there was %75 clown meat in it

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mcdonalds:confused:

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And:confused:

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I think he is refering to the Clown meat reference in the post above his. :D:D

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No he's just confused Alan, from morning to night:D:D

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He had actually done a witty reply to accymans post about the burger tasting funny.
Some folk might not have understood.

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I was looking along the shelves at a local supermarket trying to find a sauce to liven up my Sunday lunch.
Came across one that sounded interesting, supposed to be a rich, tangy and very hot flavour.
Almost bought it but, with all the additives and scandal I automatically checked the ingredients, contains horse radish, I don't know exactly which part of a horses anatomy radish actually is, but I put it back on the shelf just in case!

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Just seen some breaking news on Sky "Traces of horsemeat found in US company Taco Bells ground beef"
That'll trigger a stampede to the lawyers :cool:

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most likely and unlike here these companies will pay for their cost cutting ways.

my personal thoughts are that the people who have shoved horse meat into our food havnt done it by mistake but have done it deliberatly to cut costs and maximise proffits in the hope that if caught can say oops it must have been a mix up somewhere lower down on the pay grade part of teh workforce

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Maybe my previous post was misleading accyman? It is Taco Bell in the UK but you can bet your sweet bibby the UK lawyers will have a pop at the US Co for maximum potential gain ;)

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although the UK has adopted the sue everyone for anything attitude it isnt quite as good at pulling it off as teh USA yet

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And more breaking news from the Colonial Broadcasting Corporation:

Iceland tests find meat pies contain no meat at all - World - CBC News

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Strangely enough, I was tested once and although they found my DNA it seems I went extinct several billion years ago!
:confused:

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You must be a dinosaur Less:D

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Come on, jaysay. No need to pull your punches with Less- he can take it.
Say it as it is.

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There you go again, jumping on site with an insult, no thought to the fact I mentioned billions of years!
I was actually hinting at a one celled creature, I felt quite proud of my heritage until you posted so cold heartedly.

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Oh sorry Less, was only doing a reverse Less, taking the you know what:D

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mcdonalds have been given the all clear after no horse DNA was found when testing their carboard

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Yes but now they've tested the boxes when are they going to test the burgers?

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The cardboard is the Burgers.

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I should imagine it's a close call which tastes best- the boxes or the burgers.

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To be fair I just looked on their website and they say their burgers are 100% British or Irish beef with no binders, fillers,onions etc. And the 'chain' is only 5 long from farm to you.

So joking aside, what do they taste like? Must admit I haven't had one for years.

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Never liked em n i love a good burger.

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mcdonalds brugers are so wafer thin that by teh time you have bit through the bun,cheese and dressing your unlikely to notice the beef

however if you speak to anyone whos eaten at a mcdonalds in the USA its a completely different story and you get plenty of burger for your money.The yanks quite happily give minute burgers to the uk and europe because we are willing to pay good money for nothing in our bellys

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Read on another forum -

"Vatican reeling as DNA tests show communion wafers contain 0% Christ"

:D

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Its always been in the mind Margaret, its surprising what belief can do if you really want it to, I was never that convinced myself

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse:Ikea recalls cakes in 23 countries after sewage bacteria found - Telegraph

Adds a whole new meaning to "Let them eat cake";)

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Yawn... they have to go over the top with the scaremongering - why not just leave out the word sewage from the headline and let people read the story to find out more.

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Think the word sewage in the headline guarantees that people will read the story Sue:D

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Let them eat cack...... Oh sugar that's my probation terms banjaxed ;) another months ban for swearing :rolleyes:

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Now there's a term I've not heard for quite a while.

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Found this Mr D:
Actually it stems from the Urdu "Bahnn Gehecked" which refers to a large pottery cooking bowl or gourd....These gourds were not very resistant to heat and developed cracks at the base.
When the Pasthu women lifted these onto their shoulders the base frequently came away showering the carrier with hot liquid or stew.

By common usage then the term became a descriptor for an item which was faulty or unsafe.
For instance when someone would attempt to lift a full basket of cobras for the snake charmer someone might say .."Be carefull Parminder....that could be bahnn gehecked...

British soldiers in India brought the expression to these islands

*** Susie123 mentions finding some potsherds up on Morecambe Bay, they may well have come off the shipwreck of the Bengal Lancers back in the great storm of 1882 :D

Bahnn Gehecked sounds German to me though ;)

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More likely the local dump for Silverdale from what I found...

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Don't buy that for a minute - it's Irish, ask Terry Wogan.

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I thought Morecambe was the local dump for Silverdale;)

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I don't know why people make fun of Morecambe- I think it's awful!

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It was in common usage amongst the Military 80's- 90's, but since then seldom heard. :)

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Know what you mean ... there was a thing a while back in Brooks, Alberta at a meat packing plant ... e coli or some stuff like that in some of the meat. I think a grand total of seventeen people accross Canada reported symptoms ... (of course, they could have been hung over:rolleyes:) But this made front page news for a couple of weeks:eek: Seventeen people! From a packing plant that slaughtered 4,000 animals a day. Ok, it might not have been seventeen; it might have been thirteen, which is how many years etc. ... but it wasn't all that many.

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Ya Mr D Saturday night entertainment in Morecambe is watching the traffic lights change on the Barbary Coast:D

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Ask Terry Wogan???
Terry washed up, wig wearing, potato-faced mick and master of the double entendre and non sequitur Wogan?? *
No thank you Susie just cos’ he says it’s Irish doesn’t mean it’s gospel.
Lots of words in English have been borrowed from both Urdu and Hindi, including dungarees, shampoo, pundit, purdah, bangle, loot, thug, juggernaut, bungalow and, interestingly, goolies.
* and murderer of Kate Moss’s traditional English song

I did used to enjoy his Raising of the Raleigh from Carshalton Duck Pond in the early 80’s though.;)

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People have been saying for years... "oh i could eat a horse" and now they can there moaning about it ha.. I bet its been going for years but only have they found it now. oh well bring on the burgers !

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You must be barking if you are still buying burgers and takeaways
Has DOG meat been found in our food? New takeaway horror after experts discover 'mystery meat' in a lamb curry | Mail Online

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It may be correct, but yeh must be more barking Margaret if yeh take notice of the Mail.:D Its arguably the worst of a Bad bunch. By the way any burgers here are home made.

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Remember back a few years ago the Mail running a non-story about Wetherspoons selling Zebu meat. Read and reread it. Zebu is a member of the cattle family or put it another way. Which ever way you slice it may be an ugly cow but it's still a cow.

Zebu and chips, sir? Why your pub steak may not be as beefy as you think | Mail Online

A non-story ;)

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Can say this is bothering me one little bit especially beef burgers, I've never eaten them, think the only time I had something like was yonks ago in a Whimpy bar.

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Not new really, who hasn't heard the rumours of a local Chinky with half a Labrador/ German shepherd dog buried down in the freezer alongside the rats & pigeons ? :rolleyes:

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Oh DiG you have set me a challenge. I will be going through the old shoebox on top of the wardrobe for the photos I took some while ago in Foshan, Guandong PRC when I found the dog butchers ;)
More lurcher than labrador :)

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It's fine DtP47, no need really, you keep your pictures safely tucked away thank you very much.

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OK point taken DiG ;)
As my old mate Walter used to say "The only good dog is a hot dog" :rolleyes:

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My god, is nothing sacred no more:eek: Adulterating moose meat!

Pork found in Ikea's moose lasagna - World - CBC News

What next? Beef in your Bambi burgers:D

Gotta admit, I've never thought of moose lasagna ... I don't think you can get much further from Italian than moose. I've got some moose burger in the freezer .... think I'll try me a moose lasagna. I hope there's no red spring wheat mixed in with the durum in the pasta:D

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today at the food festival .... least these are honest about it .... :D

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Super that Jen I'd definitely have ordered a Crocodile sandwich and told um to make it snappy:D

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We have a butcher in town who sells kangaroo and crocodile ... he's from Oz.


Pig & Olive: Welcome - 613.634.3232 LaSalle Park Plaza, Fresh Local Products. Lamb, Beef, Pork & Bison

Not often you can find a real butcher any more. All you have these days are meat cutters at the supermarkets. Their job is to make shoe leather look appetizing.:mad:

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Who's been in the knife box?

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No need to jump on an Air Canada flight to join Uncle Eric at the Barbie ;)

The Marton Arms in Ingleton has them and ostritch on the menu.
Plus an everchanging range of hand pumped cask ales. ;)

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Actually it's cheaper to buy a couple of steaks and glue them to your shoes than it is to use a cobblers these days. (you must ensure that the steaks are put straight into a very hot grill to ensure that the little ridges formed by the grill wire will give you some form of grip during the winter months)

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More to do with recycling actually Frank. :)

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Speaking of cobblers the current Mrs P prepared a tasty meal of cobbler and crusty bread last night down here at our shed on wheels in the Principality. "Is this smoked haddock my darling?" I enquired. It was indeed tasty.
" No it's cobbler, whatever that is? she replied "It looked nice in Tesco"**
Well I was on google with fingers flying faster than a Morecambe scientist ;)

Vietnamese river cobbler..... still at least it was correctly labelled
*I hope*
** substitute nice for cheap methinks

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Not sure but he's sharp:)

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And what about that Princess Anne suggesting we should eat horsemeat??
They'll be eating corgi's at the palace next. :D

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I don`t think there is anything wrong with eating horse meat, so long as you know that is what you are eating and that you know it has gone through the same quality control as other food.

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Shock Horror, latest scandal "My Dobbin Burger contained real Pork!" :eek: :D

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Princess Anne advocating eating horsemeat? Seeing as she looks like she contains horse DNA herself it almost amounts to fancying a bit of oneself as a canapé. :p:o