Re: CHAT Horsefeathers (was: Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness)

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

> Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:
>
> > Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >
> > > That's not really parallel, tho; to be parallel,
> you'd have a situation
> > > where
> > > Americans do eat horse meat*...(schnip)
> > > * Given a few of the things I've found horse
> meat in, and the frequency
> > > with
> > > which I pay much attention to the exact contents
> of meat products, I would
> > > not
> > > be particularly surprised to learn that millions
> of Americans do consume
> > > horse
> > > meat without being aware of it.
> > >
> > Quite likely. But since we don't routinely eat
> horse, how would we recognize
> > the taste anyway??  I too read labels-- which are
> supposed to be truthful--
> > with some care, and have never noticed overt
> reference to "horse", nor in
> > disguise as cheval, Pferd, Equus caballus,
> "kuda-meat" etc. etc.
>
> I should have been explicit - I normally _don't_
> read labels. The fact that I've
> seen that things have contained horse meat a few
> times when I've actually
> checked suggests it's fairly common. Things might of
> course be different across
> the Pond.
>
> Horses are not normally considered food where I come
> from, but neither is it
> taboo, and suggesting eating them does not tend to
> provoke the kneejerk
> antipathy that suggesting eating, say, dog does.
>
> One time I was surprised to find that a food
> contained horse was with the
> Scouts; we we're eating hot dogs that one of the
> leaders had bought somewhere,
> and I, for whatever reason, looked at the package,
> and so that they were made
> of a mix of pork and horse meat (as well as the
> other things you prefer not to
> think about when you eat cheap industrially produced
> sausages). I, of course,
> made everyone aware of the fact. Most of the girls
> refused to eat any more of
> it, but, IIRC, none of the boys or adults present
> where troubled by it.
>
>
> Andreas
>
If you'd done that over here, probably more than one
person present would have proceeded to vomit.  Someone
would ahve made a big to do of taking another bite,
but I doubt anyone would have actually finished the
meal (except maybe the one who made a big show to save
face).  I suspect that any horse meat in American
products ia discretely disguised by the lable "meat
by-products".  I stay away from anything with a lable
that doesn't specifically tell me what I'm getting.

Adam


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