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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 80 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I always knew lasagna was horse. How else could they glue the layers together?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They deliver it at superluminal speeds and the speed keeps everything together.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I heard they fold the pasta seven times in the traditional way

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Traditional pasta was folded up to 100 times because of the impurities in the pasta. It's not necessary with modern materials and mostly done now for ornamental lasagna.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 25 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Horse meat is absolutely tasty, and if it wasn't so unpopular it'd probably be in the same price range as beef, overall the market is quite small, and absolutely zero horses are raised for meat. Bluntly said at the end of a horse's career an owner is asked "do you want an urn, vacuum packs, or not pay anything I'll sell the meat". If your dietary preference for meat is animals which have been loved and pampered all their life horse is a very good choice.

Trouble with the scandal back then was that it was all untracked horse meat. And there's plenty of horses around which get treated with veterinary drugs that make them unsuitable for human consumption because no owner is prioritising slaughter over their health.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Eh, it goes on the plate like frogs do. Horse meat is great and cheaper than beef here

[–] WorldsDumbestMan 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I ate horse meat before. It was chewy, and I have special ethical issues with it, like for me it's like eating a Dog. It does not matter even if it where tasty.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Your dog would not mind eating your horse. Your dog also wouldn't mind eating you.

There's two principal reasons why people make a difference between cats/dogs on the one side and horses on the other: The degree to which they're family, but very crucially also to the degree to which horses, or cows, very much aren't carnivores, it's about position on the foodchain, how much heavy metals etc. accumulate, that's not just a modern thing it's always been the case. That's why eating dogs is an exception among human cultures, while with cows not eating them is the exception.

[–] GenerationII@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I removed myself from the food chain a decade and a half ago by forgoing meat entirely. Now I don't have to have weird moral arguments with myself.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nah, you're just occupying another spot on it. And unless you're an algae or something, literally living from light and elements floating about in the air and sea, you're not at the bottom.

The ecology expands beyond your pet ethical considerations.

Side question: Would you begrudge your dog eating your corpse? If you love them so much, why don't you feed them, when that is all you have left to give?

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Horse salami is sorta kinda common I would say. Not as in "in every household"-common, but still not unusual. Can't remember what it tastes like tho.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I checked the best before dates of all the beef lasagne meals I have... and they're off