I doubt you'd find a burger anywhere describing itself as 100% beef, let alone a supermarket "value" burger.

As to horsemeat, I've enjoyed horse steak tartare in Belgium

Just been to the fridge to check the date on my Tesco burgers.........................aaaaaaaaaaaand they're off!!!!

interesting that this thread is directed only at Tesco when at least 2 other shops were also caught up in this issue, seems the Tesco knives are out again.

Whether one is happy to eat horse meat or not, does this case not show that Tesco / Iceland etc. are unable to prove the provenance of what they sell ?
In this instance it was horse meat but the same lack of supply chain control could allow much more serious contamination to occur.

Cheers.



Absolutely. I just don't see any logic for it otherwise.

The was a whole batch of shops involved – Iceland, Aldi, Lidl, Dunnes Stores, Supervalu, Spar, Centra, FXB Butchers and Superquinn, as well as Tesco.

I must admit, I found it odd to read that Tesco had placed adverts in papers apologising this morning. Whatever the real reason for this happening, it wasn't just them – and they can claim, one would have thought, that they didn't know about about it and certainly didn't order it.

Where there may be culpability is in this being a direct consequence of the products being meant to be very cheap, together with practices to drive down the percentage of the sale price that goes to the supplier/producer (I saw a story a couple of months ago that supermarkets in general pay between 8-12% of shelf price to the producer/supplier, while there's also been anger in the business at some of the supermarkets unilaterally introducing massively extended payment terms for themselves when paying suppliers). But these things are far from unique to Tesco.

On why they're taking most of the flak, you could just as well point out that it wasn't just horse DNA that was picked up, but far more pig DNA, but the mainstream media has concentrated on the the one that's more sensationalistic because culturally we don't eat meat in the UK.

Tesco is the biggest of those, and has a reputation (whether you agree with it or not) for being aggressive in terms of expansion.

Does that make Tesco any less culpable?

does it make you any less obsessed and boring?

given that you seem to hate most things about the UK, why not go live somewhere else?

Once stayed at a small hotel in the middle of nowhere in the Aude valley - a small place with maybe 4 or 5 rooms and the proprietor would cook the main meal in the evening and sit down with all the guests together. All very good.
On one night, this hors d'oeuvre came out and she told the French people - in French - that it was horse, then said to me and the wife - in English - that is was 'meat'.

So our cultural aversion to eating things with a nice face and that have personal characteristics imposed on them by us travels well.

That's twice you have gone on a personal attack when you've run out of an argument.

Trace amounts found in the burgers in Dunns and Lidl. 29% of the meat content in the ones sold by Tesco.
Seems fairly proportional to me.

Never tried horse, but having had all the usual meats, fish as well as some other 'exotic' meats around the world, I don't see a problem. The main issue seems to be the labelling.