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Google-image “My Lidl Pony.”

Ugh. Emily’s gonna love this one. 🙂

Hmmmmm meat in Europe? Nyet!

http://www.ammoland.com/2013/02/olympic-arms-to-new-york-state-take-your-business-elsewhere/#ixzz2KkFqTrWU

If it tasted the same, can’t imagine the big deal. It’s not like they found pieces of hoof or shoe nails in it.
Although those drive-thru burger joints hold a special place in my heart with memories of after-last-call munchies, I’ve never considered going there for a good, healthy meal.

When they start finding human DNA in the meat, _that’s_ when I’d get worried. But — lots of people disappear without a trace, so…

Where’s the dude who was waxing poetic about staring back at a vat of cow eyeballs, when you need him?

“The problem is they didn’t know what the hell was in our food.”

Now, see, that can’t happen here in the good ol US of A ‘cuz we have government food inspectors. (Unless that sequester thingy kicks in and then all the food inspectors will be laid off for two weeks, so no food shipments for two weeks. But Michelle says we need to lose some weight so its all good.)

..and it’s not like the government food inspectors could be bribed or anything. It’s all union labor anyway, so ya, no, it could never happen here.

Comment from Timothy S. Carlson
Time: February 14, 2013, 12:41 am

Just wondering, but what are the odds that if human DNA was found in the meat in Britain [or any EU country for that matter]; that a) any government body would admit it, and b) that the information would not be suppressed?

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Soylent+Greem&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=soylent+greem&sc=8-13&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=0434E873662AF1897F8C2263AD52EF9C40AF01E3&selectedIndex=15

Subotai Bahadur

Subotai The Cynical!
Although Soylent Green has crossed my mind @ KFC or while trying the more disgusting McRib or McCrabcake.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course
And no one would chew up a horse, of course
That is of course unless the horse is
In something that you’re being fed!

An audit system that only looks at paperwork only ensures that the people being audited know how to fill out the paperwork properly, not that the program is being operated the way the paperwork says.

I’m guessing there’s been a bit of a run on meat grinders in Merry Ol’? I mean the tagline writes itself: “Control how much horse you eat, grind your own!”

So, who DID decide to ask? And who paid for the DNA test? You see, this might have been going on for decades. I’ve been eating meat for decades and learned about DNA in elementary school. But never thought once to ask whether there was some “horse” in my burger.

What motivated this guy to look for horse in HIS burger?

I forget where I came across this, but over time, a number of “Atkins” dieters who counted their carbs meticulously found they were not losing weight as expected, so, independently of each other, they were sending so-called “low-carb” products off to labs to have them tested at their own expense. Surprise surprise, the test results (as reported on some forum or other) showed not just higher carbs than on the labels, but widely variable results for the same products.

So, yeah. Desperate dieters do this sort of thing – it’s not just something from a Seinfeld episode.

My daughter said it would be inappropriate to make an Ash Wednesday joke in re Dorner, so I’ll simply gratefully acknowledge the dick that will soon cross the pond.

Yep, I’m pretty sure that there’s a great tail behind the horse meat mystery.

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Re: Dorner

There are some great jokes about that guy… Starting Ash Wednesday early, “bet he never would have thought he’d get fired by the LAPD twice…” and my personal contribution “What’s black and crazy and fits in an ashtray?”

I’ve (knowingly) eaten horse, donkey and dog – not bad.

And Oceania? If you liked the Olympic Arms letter to New York, see what they said yesterday to the Fraternal Order of Police. An epic “Fuck Off!” In terms of sales, it’s not going to hurt their business, as they have a 2 year backlog of orders anyway. But they can look foreward to having the IRS, DHS, BATFE and God alone knows how many other alphabet soup agencies crawling up their asses in short order, I imagine. LaRue Tactical started this, Magpul has promised to leave CO, and with this sort of news being platered all over every gun-related website on the globe, I rather image these companies are just the start. Me, I have no particular desire to own an AR (my Mini-14 is just fine), but if it was even possible, I’d go down to my local Olympic Arms dealer and put in an order today. Unfortunately, they’re not even taking orders anymore.

Sweas, your Valentine card from Zazzle was a hit!
BTW, happy V-Day (or Hallmark Day)!!

“Protein is protein”, as they said in survival class.

A lil’ more gun stuff from Cowboy Barry:
http://ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com/2013/02/pew-pew-pew-pew.html

My favorite was Barrett telling LAPD that he’d get around to servicing their brok .50s – someday. Maybe.

I guess it’s up to me to quote Rodney Dangerfield from “Caddyshack”: “Hey, this steak’s so fresh it’s still got marks where the jockey was kickin’ it!”

“How’s the whiskey?”
“This horse needs to have it’s kidneys checked.”

The beauty of this story is the globality of it. Its not just the Brits who like their horse.

For example, the Swiss don’t seem to mind a little pony either. Yahoo reports “While Swiss consumers do eat horsemeat on occasion, they are extremely sensitive about the origin of their meat products”

WOW! So the upscale, holier-than-thou Swiss eat HORSE. And to boot, they’re nativists! They won’t eat horse from other countries. Too damn snooty to eat French horse, probably.

So whats the whole point of the EU if horsemeat can’t cross national boundaries?

Aren’t the Swiss just French people who bathe?

Someone asked at work about the difference between horsemeat and donkey. The explanation:

They taste almost the same, but donkey has a little more kick to it.

I worked at the livestock auction many years ago and, believe me, you don’t want to see the cows that go away to be burgers….

The problem is they didn’t know what the hell was in our food.

Steyn a few years ago said they police everything but crime in Britain.

A new dead pool? Cool, I wanted to change my pick.

Try preparing your own meat sometime. After a few times, you won’t really mind where Burger King or McDonald’s is getting the meat.

Comment from Grey Ice
Time: February 15, 2013, 5:56 am

My ex father-in-law woke me up one Christmas morning, handed me a rifle and said “Let’s get your Christmas present”. He walked me to the stable where a steer named ‘T-Bone’ was tied up. “There it is”, he says, “take care of it so we can set to butcherin'”.

I had to shoot a steer between the eyes on Christmas morning. I’m going to hell for that, for sure. Spent the rest of the morning gutting and butchering the carcass.

My ex brother-in-law shows up while my ex-FIL is holding the disarticulated anus to keep crap from spewing all over, while I was tying twine around it to keep it closed up. The BIL turned green, ran for the house, and we didn’t see him until the afternoon. Can’t say either of us missed him.

I will say – it was the best damn beef I had ever eaten in my life. It took me a long, _long_ time before I could stomach Safeway hamburger again.

Now I live in the Philippines – where every meal is an adventure and most protein sources are a mystery 😉

Timothy,

That was a beautiful story. Reminds me of when I worked on a farm as a youngin’ and had to restrain calves, while the farmer chopped off their testicles. He thought it was hilarious to throw them at me, a 13 yr old girl.

I would think your experience would only be hell-worthy if you had started butchering the steer before you killed. That would definitely be worrisome.

My ex-FIL used to put rubber bands around the testicles of the steers – it would cut off the blood flow and they would dry up and fall off.

*shudders, reflexively grabs crotch*

He was a strange old bird.

BTW: I didn’t say it was a _clean_ shot between the eyes…