Horse meat? Remember when starling was on the menu?
OH, bless the dear sweet lady who, now at the age of 85 years, wrote in to the Grimsby Telegraph (Friday, February 8) in a letter that carried the headline “meat memories” in which she, after all these years, still remembers with horror that day when she found out that it was in fact horse meat being passed over the counter and not prime cut fillet English beef.
And here’s me thinking that after many years it was the young ones of today that are leading such a sheltered life, thus wrapped in cotton wool from all things that could harm their little grey cells and traumatise them well into an older age.
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For where, may one ask, was Kathleen Outhwaite when the likes of starling or sparrow pie were on the menu and hedgehog was baked in clay and rook or crow stew was the delicacy of the week and the only part of a pig you couldn’t eat was the oink?
Nino Hoblyn, North Street, Caistor.
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5 Comments
by 4everblue
Friday, February 22 2013, 7:39PM
“And the Government is perpetuating this as though they had never heard of horse meat being eaten.
The forces were fed with it even in the 1950s.
If you wanted a good roast during the war then horsemeat was not on ration.
France, Germany, Spain and Italy use horsemeat in dishes, so when on holiday in these countries in future, you'd best ask "What meat is it" lol
In the 1960s there was a shop on Cleethorpe Rd that only sold horsemeat and at a weekend there were queues down the street for it.
We really do not know all the ingredients in our processed foods today, so why the big deal over Horsemeat?????”
by seadog
Friday, February 22 2013, 7:39PM
“any shops got any burgers they dont want with horse meat in i will have um”
by Beagleyes
Friday, February 22 2013, 7:26PM
“Ah starling ....
Those were the days my friend .....”
by GTWebonly
Friday, February 22 2013, 1:20PM
“Again the point is lost. If you want to eat horse, eat it. If you want to heat Starling, eat it. If you want to eat beef, you ask for beef and you expect to be giving beef! The problem is not with the meat, it's the fact that a) you are not getting what is described, and b) if they don't know horse meat is being mixed, what else is?”
by davendogs
Friday, February 22 2013, 12:58PM
“I don't know what you are getting at. It is quite simple, if you can shoot it, trap it, kill it, you eat it. Starling should be up there with collared dove and pigeon. Waste not want not.”