h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

that's another one of those implicit h2g2 challenges isn't it? I wonder how many threads that video is going to turn up in...

If I go a week without posting it somewhere on teh interwebz I get all angsty and irritated!



FB

After a solid week of watching BBC news broadcasts on this story, my visual memory is now indelibly stamped with images of mincing machines, beefburgers and ready-meals.

In other words, I'm gagging for a Findus lasagne. Is anyone else too?

I'll split one with you Icy

I'm having to rein in my appetite, but I might go for a filly mignon (or is that a mingin' filly?) later on.

I saw someone in the local supermarket today with a "Classic" Beef Dinner readymeal.....

Does that mean it ran in the 2000 Guineas?

First the horsemeat, now this - http://i46.tinypic.com/1zp1hfd.jpg

Ha ha ha. Fliping brilliant!

So stealing that!

FB

The US media is having a field day with this horsemeat scandal.
And because the only English speaking news clips they can use
are from Britain it is being focused as an 'English' thing and the
late night comics are having a ball dissing 'the English' over
this fiasco.

So it is with some reluctance but an overpowering sense of duty
that I inform you of a situation in America that puts eating horse
meat in some perspective. You may have heard of several ecoli
outbreaks in the US in the past few years. There have been recalls
of green onions, peanuts (and peanut butter), cabbages, lettuce
and several other kinds of produce.

Well, the Food and Drug Administration has finally figured it out.
But you likely haven't heard about it. It is not pleasant.

Some bright young thing was inspecting orange groves in California
and needing to use the loo, asked where she might find one. The
workers, mostly illegal alien migrants, informed her that there
were no facilities, they just go behind a tree. It turns out that
in the large field crop situations like beans and avacadoes and
tomatoes the workers can't even find a tree. They work 10, 12
and even 14 hour shifts as long as there is daylight.


When it was suggested that farm owners might soon be required
to provide toilet facilities for migrant farm workers many said
they have never provided them before, they could not afford to
and would rather go out of business.

So wash your fruit and veg carefully.

~jwf~

Now it's Ikea meatballs

I didn't realise there was just so much horse, there must be huge farms rearing horse, countrysides filled with grazing horse somewhere. Or is this just the fate of all those horses that fill the racetracks around Europe (& those horses not making the grade so ending up as spicy ikea meatballs)

I wonder what will be next? Cans of tuna filled with dolphin

Seahorse obviously

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21588575

In South Africa soya, donkey, goat and water buffalo have all been found in products labelled as beef.


Geggs

Yes, but is that gnus?

"The US media is having a field day with this horsemeat scandal"

I was in Australia during the Kangeroo meat scandal in the early eighties - Aussie slaughterhouses had palm off kangeroo, wild horse, buffalo, and condemened meat as beef to a major US fast food chain (McSkippy if memory serves me right) and said obesity merchants had marketed the BigBoomerBurger as 100% pure US beef. As I recall the press and republican types in the US were less upset by the fact they had guzzled rancid roo meat than the fact it wasn't condemned meat from patriotic American kangeroos.

So, has the horsemeat issue changed your eating/cooking habits?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21765737

Have to admit it's changed mine, partly because I don't really want to eat horse but also because the whole affair has brought the issue of the utter crud they put in food to the forefront. Sausages were grand while I never thought about the content too much, but it's hard not to think about it with all this on the news.

I've found I'm eating more chicken and pork (which is a good thing) but also more takeaway fish & chips (which is a bad thing).

How about you?

Actually, not at all. But then, we only eat mince or sausages about once a month anyway, takeaway perhaps four times a year, and ready-meals not at all.

Mol

In France, ironically, people have been buying more horse (deliberately, from butchers).

Personally speaking I never eat 'value' burgers, so if we are getting horse in our occasional tins of ravioli or sausages, then at least it's hopefully good quality horse...

sprout