British and Irish shoppers were recently disgusted to find that their Lidl and Tesco Value burgers potentially contained up to 29% HORSE MEAT. Worried students hoof recently shopped there are checking packaging in case they have the night mare situation of the trots during exams.
This takeaway will give Roosters a run for its money!
It was previously assumed the closest you’d get to finding a horse in Tesco was the Zebra on the barcode, but it was revealed by the Irish Food Board yesterday that furlong time manufacturers have been reining in their costs by topping up beefburgers with the cheaper meat.
A Gallup poll conducted last night found that nearly 30% of students had bought one or more packets of the frozen burgers in the last month. One long-faced student, who recently filled his freezer with them, criticised a recent buy-one-get-one-free promotion, saying:
The mane attraction was the price, but looking back it was just a waste. I’ve got no idea what I’m going to do with all this horsemeat I’ve been saddled with – to eat them or not to eat them is the equestrian.
Despite the scares about the value range, sales of the satin range “Finest” burgers continued, although, since they must have been costing hard-pressed students a pony, they’d better eat them before they go off!
We should at this point remind you that horse meat isn’t actually dangerous, although most of us know it isn’t really appealing either. However Gordon Ramsay took to the Telegraph to rubbish the neigh-sayers, suggesting that horse meat was actually TASTY and rich in protein.
Perhaps if you can eat them and remain in a stable condition, this could be a Newmarket for Tesco, as it seems nobody could actually tell the difference until the routine DNA tests revealed some hairy results. Until then though, watch out – the unexpected item in the bagging area may actually need to go back to the cart, unless your daughter is happy to take My Lidl Pony a bit more literally than intended.
Are you, in true student style, going to keep eating Tesco Value ‘beef’ burgers, or will you be switching to uniQuorn? Let us know in the comments below.
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“Excuse me,” I said to the woman sat in front of me on the bus, “You have some semen on the back of your jacket.”
“I’m sure it’s not semen,” she said, “It’s probably yoghurt.”
“It’s definitely semen,” I said, “I don’t ejaculate yoghurt.”
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Chillaz dude, horse meat is very healthy and also very good for you. It’s rich in iron, protein, it’s lean, it doesn’t spoil fast, contains small amount of sugar to help protein absorption and countless other benefits.
Across southern Europe it’s regularly given to newborns and sportsmen as source of healthy, safe and nutritios meat.
So, if anything, they did people a favour by putting healthier meat in the burgers.
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This whole article is completely and utterly punacceptable
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That was really punny!
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Horse meat is good and should be used more, but from all of the articles about this incident it seems that the British are very childish in their food tastes. A horse is a large animal with a lot of meat, just like a cow. If you eat beef but can’t stomach the thought of eating other less common meats, then you should really think about your views on meat consumption. If you want to eat meat, an animal has to die. I am fine with this, though I don’t take it for granted, can you really say that you’re OK with it? Or do you just hide from this reality by only seeing meat in a packet and never associating it with the animal it came from.
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Wrong! An animal does not have to die if you want to eat it’s meat, just chop off a piece of meat and then release the animal back into the wild, what’s the problem with it?
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*vegeterian alert*
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Joe, I’m sure people would KNOWINGLY try horse…. but the point is they just don’t fancy doing so as part of a surprise burger…is that childish?!?!
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My point was maybe not entirely to do with the horse meat being in the burgers, more the reaction from the media about horse meat in general.
I assumed my comment was clear enough, but maybe not: I was saying that the impression one gets from the media is that horse meat is disgusting, this article is a prime example of that. My comment about childishness is not about the anger at the varied meat ingredients (obviously you would want to know that what is on the label, is what is in the packet), but about the impression that the public thinks that horse meat is disgusting. This may be wrong, just a false impression given by sensationalist journalism.
Lastly, this case shows that Tesco does not entirely know what is in it’s products, and where these mystery meats came from. This is unacceptable.
‘One of those horses’, I do hope the accusation of vegetarianism was not aimed at me, I am an avid meat eater.
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In all honesty, I don’t care. Protein is still protein and provided it’s not going to make me ill, who cares where it comes from? The only exception to this would be if either the cows or the horses were treated badly in life.
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this story is getting really lame now
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Surprised that there is 29% of any kind of meat in them tbh.
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Horse is actually quite expensive, doubt it is a race for a profit.
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After this revelation, Primark have announced that camel toe can be found in their leggings
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What are the odds!
I’ve heard that it’s a foreign delicacy.. they call it the Trojan burger – you never know what’s inside. And though there may be some hurdles, this practice has to be reined in. How very saddle
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How could I forget the trojan horse? Should have been the headline!! Major love
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Maybe all the cows with a wee calf went on holiday so they had to round up the horses before they bolted – neigh my gag, but hay, I’ll have the credit
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