AMERICAN Reacts to 10 Shocking UK Food Scandals!! *never eating again*

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[@stephaniesanderson9638]

I’d blame that suspicious salmon handler for most of these 😂

[@fleshen]

Not sure the food shortages are that bad now, but the supermarkets throwing away food is criminal!

[@direravendenial8947]

As a long-term food retail worker, I agree sadly the issue is that our hands are tied by regulations and trust me when I say this a lot of staff in shops feel the same sentiments as you do.

[@garethfranks4223]

@@direravendenial8947 I worked for a big food retailer and we use to have 3 to 4 trolleys of food waste daily. luckily we were aloud to take what we wanted so not much went to waste

[@geoffbeattie3160]

If it swims ,flies walks or farts the French and Chinese will spice it and eat it!!!😂😂

[@user-gf1jt2hp4m]

Very true

[@kathchandler4919]

A couple of years ago the food inspectors found food being imported from Ireland were shown as British beef, it wasn't beef, it was horsemeat & was taken out of circulation immediately & restitution made by Ireland !

[@schadesloth7933]

In several Western European countries, there are specific horse meat butchers. I saw one in Switzerland and they are also fairly commonly found in Belgium, the Netherlands and especially France.

[@ingobordewick6480]

Germany too. "Sauerbraten" is traditionally made from horsemeat and it is delicious. Do to the lack of horse butchers it's mostly made from beef now, but the traditional "Sauerbraten" is made from horse meat. It was invented during the napoleonic wars. Food shortage and dead horses laying around on the battlefields was the reason people started making the meat more soft with a bath of vinegar for days, which also made the meat sour (sauer in german). That's where the name "Sauerbraten" came from.

[@glastonbury4304]

These cases they mention are so rare ...food standards in the UK and the rest of Europe are of an extremely high standard

[@dizzyjessd]

I work in a supermarket and I can tell you food gets donated daily to local food banks that can store and use fresh foods, they feed homeless or elderly plus do bags for those that go in for help

[@Salfordian]

No Brits don't eat horse meat that was caused by EU food standards, lots of EU people eat that, frogs, snails etc they eat anything

[@angelawalker8615]

Hi there from a fellow salfordian.👋

[@gradderz]

British do eat horse meat, I've had it. Tastes absolutely lovely, far better tasting than beef

[@dihuxtable7075]

When I lived in Germany I had horse meat. I thought it was beef but the fat is darker explained to me by my grandma. Very similar to beef.

[@NicholasJH96]

No it was caused by criminals

[@tonycrayford3893]

Yes we do, I have horse meat in my freezer right now. It's good meat you should try it.

[@karmah88]

i live in the countryside and remember that foot and mouth outbreak it was terrible. piles and piles of bodies in the fields, in barns and then the mass burnings. the smell of burning wool was so pungent it made you feel sick. lasted for weeks too.

[@charlottehardy822]

I agree, let’s pray it never happens again.

[@dorryfrost3915]

The field near our house had huge piles of bodies, the stench was awful and trying to distract your children whilst walking to school was difficult as the days went by.

[@jessgunn6639]

the empty fields that spring broke my heart, it was soul destroying. i remember the first day the animals were left back out and there was a row of us hanging over the fence crying watching the cows high kicking and jumping around in the field after finally getting out on the grass!

[@EmilyCheetham]

I agree JT we need a law that all supermarkets /growers MUST donate any food they cannot sell.

[@susanbearchell6436]

It was I bit horrifying when the horsemeat scandal was reported but the brits made so many jokes about it we didn't take it seriously 😂😂😂

[@kenslater7354]

I'm English, 66 years old and have never met anyone who have eaten horse meat. Remember, American chicken is banned in Europe

[@TheTwoFingeredBulldog]

I'm English and have eaten horse before in france. Probably had it when I didn't realise as well 😂

[@dinger40]

Horse meat used to be easilly available from specialist butchers that only sold horse in France when I used to go there, a few years back now. I wouldn't have known it wasn't beef if I hadn't been told after I had eaten a burger at a fair. Since the 1990s, the law made this more flexible and it is now possible to find horse meat in supermarkets and other shops in France

[@user-py5ct1go2s]

At this time of the year there are many Christmas markets And in a few of them they sell cooked meat products from the following list. Crocodile, Reindeer, and Kangaroo. I was told that because of their diet Croc meat has a taste a little similar too fish.

[@charlottehardy822]

I knew there was something different about lasagne from one of the companies when I was ill after eating it, I just assumed they’d changed an ingredient. When the scandal broke with that being one of the items affected I felt incredibly lucky as I had tried horse in France and was really ill, turns out I was mildly allergic so that lasagne could have been dangerous.

[@johnp8131]

@@user-py5ct1go2s Weirdly, I had crocodile steak in an Australian (that's Aussie not Austrian) restaurant in Germany and it's true, it does taste of fish. The closest thing in taste and texture that I can think of is shark steaks?

[@dinger40]

@@user-py5ct1go2s I thought it taste like alligator.

[@user-py5ct1go2s]

@@dinger40 Very good..

[@finnphillips7673]

So I’m Scottish and last year in college I learned about the John Barr butcher thing, I don’t know if anyone else has said but what happened was he went from raw meat only to also preparing cooked meats and the people handling things didn’t wash their hands and equipment between raw and cooked meats so the bacteria would pass into the cooked meats meaning that was how so many people got sick and the weaker immunities ie elderly and young, died

[@Jinty92]

I'm Scottish too and I remember it too. It was Scotmid stores too that stocked it and I remember the horse meat scandal too.

[@scouseofhorror104]

Was anyone else waiting for the 70s botulism scandal from the tinned salmon? It was the reason for that scene in Monty Python's Meaning of Life where 'Death' points to the salmon mousse as the reason everyone at the dinner party died at once! "Oh darling you didn't use tinned salmon did you?" 😂🤣😂

[@MarkEvans22]

Ive eaten Horse in France and i enjoyed it! Textured and tasting like Beef but it is a bit dry due lack of fat, but with a nice Red wine sauce it was delicious 👌🍷

[@jose_fr78]

I agree with you. As a french, I eat sometimes horse steak . This is a very yummy alternative to beef steak, with less fat. When I want to eat raw meat, I prefer choosing horse meat that beef meat, because it's more healthy.

[@johnnyuk3365]

Horse meat is eaten in many countries and was commonly eaten in the UK up until 1900, was still eaten in Yorkshire until WW2. It is still not illegal to eat it in the UK today. It is just not sold because there is zero interest from the public. Bit like Americans and lamb.

[@juankusoff]

You can get it from exotic butchers still.

[@johnnyuk3365]

@@juankusoff Yes, I have seen it very discretely advertised in a few butchers in South London.

[@johnnyuk3365]

@@irene3196 They don’t tend to eat Lamb. I travelled through US and Canada and I’ve never ever seen fresh lamb. There may be the odd frozen New Zealand Leg buried at the back of a freezer. Never seen it on a restaurant menu.

[@sylviagreybe672]

Pret-a-Manger, pronounced "Pret a mahnjay" (it means "ready to eat" in French) is a franchise sandwich shop in the UK.

[@JaSon-wc4pn]

I worked in Mark & spenser over the xmas period a few years ago, And they binned everything, their foods have a shorter shelf life date, so its always top quality. I was binning stacks of fresh bright pink 4 pack burgers, and countless other items, Where as Asda would still sell browned burgers. M&S aren't as ethical as they make out

[@AncientBriton1948]

Back in the late 60s early 70s when Chinese food was just becoming popular I remember a scandal in a Bedfordshire town where a surprise visit to a takeaway from the food safety people discovered half an alsatian dog was found in the fridge. I'd never used that shop but my brother was always in there. Needless to say it was shut down on the spot.

[@jaymears9077]

That was luton 😆

[@mervinmannas7671]

I do remember some of the terrible jokes that came out around the Horse meat scandal. 'What do you put on a Tescos burger. A saddle. Did you hear Frankie Dettori is running in the Derby. Oh who's he riding. A Findas Lasange

[@helenbarnett695]

I remember memes all over fb 😂😂

[@mikeoxlong4110]

Not funny it was infected so gave People the trots.🐎

[@ewanlannigan6815]

The E. Coli outbreak was in my home town, Wishaw in North Lanarkshire, John Barr butchers was indeed identified as the source of the outbreak, it gutted the town at the time, and I was only a child but I remember the fear in the town. Quite glad we always used John Chapman butchers at the other end of town.

[@allenwilliams1306]

In France and Belgium, and some other countries, there are specialist horsemeat butchers. In the UK, they were also fairly common until the early 1950s.

[@angelawalker8615]

You get what you pay for, when this story broke about horse meat, the British went ballistic, WE DO NOT EAT HORSE MEAT IN THE UK.

[@tonycrayford3893]

You may not but many do.

[@steveo4991]

Yes we do. And not only is horse meat indistinguishable from beef taste wise, it healthier, leaner and more nutritious. Get down your local butchers and see if he has it, mine does. It’s also cheaper because supply and demand. So yes, you absolutely do get what you pay for… an absolute bargain for a better product.

[@Shagyamum]

There's a great tv show called heartbeat set in Yorkshire in the 1960s that did a really dark episode about foot and mouth. Worth a watch.

[@jacksonmacmanus1001]

most supermarkets do have a donation bin for food banks within the store for customers, but thats all that ever gets sent to food banks and its usually reliant on the food bank coming to collect it

[@andy70d35]

The horse meat scandal was all over Europe, there are videos on KZbin about it. It was a way for various meat suppliers to sell cheap horse meat at the price of beef, they made millions from it. They were caught after investigations and many were closed down for good.

[@lynwratten9857]

We do not eat horses in the UK that scandal came about because a Polish company supplied an Irish company with what was called beef. It turned out later that it was horse and there was outrage, most beef products were totally ignored in supermarkets for months.

[@user-rn6qg1wf7e]

Brits don't, as a rule, eat horse meat. We (UK) both slaughter and export live horses for slaughter abroad. The scandal involving 'horse meat' was also horse DNA. The French make no fuss about eating "Steak de cheval". The DNA scandal in the UK is a bit confusing because DNA can be found in anything from bone marrow to fluids like blood. Although horse meat was discovered and labelled as beef, other undeclared meats like pork were found - as well as pig DNA. This, obviously upset many religious groups banned from eating pork. Where I live there's a huge Muslim community. Getting Take Out that's not Halal is almost impossible and I avoid it where I can. I'm not convinced saying a prayer is much comfort when slitting an animal's neck and letting it bleed to death.

[@jonbroxton7346]

I'm a Brit living in California, and to this day I'm not allowed to donate blood here because I lived in the UK during the Mad Cow Disease epidemic.

[@EmilyCheetham]

No brits do not eat horse meat. It was in the food without us knowing.

[@WelshAmethystGirl087]

I used to work for marks and Spencer and they are great with their food, at the end of each day all food that needed to be sold or was due to go out of date in the next day or so was all collected in trolleys and placed at the entrance ready for all local homeless shelters to come and collect it. As well as that each day twice a day we would inspect the fruit and vegetables for blemishes as m&s never like to sell any f&v with any marks on them any found get placed in two big recycling bins in the cold storage freezer and then once full are taken to the local zoo and for the animals to eat. All of this is done for free and they don't broadcast it. It's something we knew happened when starting to work there or was told to us I only found out on my 3rd day because I was asked to go around and collect all the produce one night and when I asked what to do with it they told me to go to the office and call the homeless shelters listed on the wall and let them know the food is ready. When I saw it being collected I instantly loved where I worked

[@colinhawes1907]

I suffered from "Mad Cow"... been married for 45 years, and still suffering... LOL.

[@jaydee_83]

The butcher that caused the E. Coli outbreak was the one my dad went to. Luckily, we were fine. The son of the butcher now runs the shop, but it's a bakers now.

[@chrisperyagh]

That was in Wishaw - even my aunt in Texas (who's originally from Wishaw) saw it on the news in the US and couldn't believe her home town was on the news for all the wrong reasons.

[@jaydee_83]

@@chrisperyagh That's right. I live in Wishaw now. Not that far from the shop

[@michaelhughes7718]

I had horse shish kebab as a kid in Germany, but that was Horse raised to be eaten. The horse that ended up in lasagna was from retired racing horses and were NOT 100% safe for consumption, they were pumped full of steroids and antibiotics, amongst other medications.

[@andrewcoates6641]

Among certain sections of society it was common for British people to eat viande de chaval or horse meat as recently as the 1950’s. Prior to WW2 there were many specialist butchers in parts of northern England who only dealt in horse meat and and before WW1 the people of Leeds were commonly referred to as “kicker eaters”, as the sale and consumption of horse flesh was so prevalent. If you were to find yourself face to flesh with horse meat you would probably struggle to identify the source of the meat,especially if you were used to the appearance of venison,as deer and horses are very similar in the appearance of their meat and the shape of their bodies and muscles. Both meats are lean and are slightly darker than beef and both are richer tasting, which when you consider their diets are virtually identical is hardly surprising. As other people have pointed out, in parts of Europe horse meat is a more readily available meat, and can be found on the menus of many high end restaurants.

[@robertwatford7425]

Horsemeat used to be common in the UK and can still be found easily in Europe. I've eaten it in Spain. A bit sweeter than beef - probably suit your US sweet tooth ;-) I was in Belgium on business during the BSE outbreak. We went to a restaurant and one of the waiters leant in as he delivered my meal and said quietly, "BSE - Best Steak in Europe!".

[@Graham6410]

I remember doing a course at Writtle Farm College in Essex during the Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2001 and seeing the burning.

[@shinrahunter]

I was in the military during the big foot and mouth outbreak. My regiment,1RTR (1st Royal Tank Regiment) part of the JNBCR (Joint Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Regiment)was part of the task force sent out to contain the outbreak and cull the livestock. It was crazy, and not your typical deployment. Also, horse meat is delicious. I can't believe I wasn't living in the UK at that point. I'd have been buying loads of it.

[@HarleyAMV]

We still eat horse meat in Sweden. There's a lot of people who choose not to or are just ignorant to the fact but in pretty much any supermarket you can find horsemeat products. Findus is also a Swedish brand, which might have something to do with them selling lasagna with horsemeat in it in England. It taste pretty much like beef, it's just much leaner. Gives it a bit of a dry, gamey feel.

[@steelpanther9568]

Natasha Ednan-Laperouse died aged 15 in 2016 after an allergic reaction to a Pret A Manger baguette bought at Heathrow airport. She collapsed on a flight to Nice and died shortly after arriving. Pret A Manger is a fast food/takeaway company, It was an allergic reaction to something in the ingredients that was not noticed in the ingredients, due to the ingredients not being labelled correctly, or making the label of ingredients easier to understand, 🤔

[@steelpanther9568]

Peter Kay, the well known stand up comedian, actor & Radio DJ, did a TV comedy sketch when Mad Cow Disease was discovered, He was selling beef out of the back of a large truck on a market, where he mentions, “BSE, think of it as a Bit of Something Extra”, 🇬🇧😎👍🏼

[@iainhughes8110]

Pret a manger ( means Ready to Eat in french) is the name of a chain of food shops.

[@steelpanther9568]

Despite the general Anglophone taboo, horse and donkey meat was eaten in Britain, especially in Yorkshire, until the 1930s and in times of postwar food shortages, surged in popularity in the United States and was considered for use as hospital food. A 2007 Time magazine article about horse meat brought to the United States from Canada described the meat as "a sweet, rich, superlean, oddly soft meat, and closer to beef than to venison." The Ten Largest Producers Of Horse Meat 2018:- 10:- Kyrgyzstan 155,177 (animals) 23,762 (tonnes) 09:- Australia 86,244 (animals) 24,148 (tonnes) 08:- Brazil 188,531 (animals) 24,566 (tonnes) 07:- Canada 127,656 (animals) 27,395 (tonnes) 06:- United States 114,841 (animals) 29,275 (tonnes) 05:- Russia 250,248 (animals) 45,388 (tonnes) 04:- Mongolia 397,271 (animals) 57,193 (tonnes) 03:- Mexico 634,845 (animals) 83,922 (tonnes) 02:- Kazakhstan 718,027 (animals) 126,520 (tonnes) 01:- China 1,589,164 (animals) 200,452 (tonnes) United States Horse meat is generally not eaten in the United States, and is banned in many states in the country. It holds a taboo in American culture very similar to the one found in the United Kingdom. All horse meat produced in the United States since the 1960s (until the last quarter of 2007) was intended solely for export abroad, primarily to the European Union. However, a thriving horse exportation business is going on in several states, including Texas, primarily exporting horses to slaughterhouses in either Canada or Mexico. Restriction of human consumption of horse meat in the U.S. has involved legislation at local, state, and federal levels. Several states have enacted legislation either prohibiting the sale of horse meat or banning altogether the slaughter of horses. California outlawed in 1998 via ballot proposition the possession, transfer, reception, or holding any horse, pony, burro, or mule by a person who is aware that it will be used for human consumption, and making the slaughter of horses or the sale of horse meat for human consumption a misdemeanor offense. In 2007, the Illinois General Assembly enacted Public Act 95-02, amending Chapter 225, Section 635 of the state's compiled statutes to prohibit both the act of slaughtering equines for human consumption and the trade of any horse meat similarly to Texas Agriculture Code's Chapter 149. Other states banning horse slaughter or the sale of horse meat include New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. In addition, several other states introduced legislation to outlaw the practice over the years, such as Florida, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and New York. At the federal level, since 2001, several bills have been regularly introduced in both the House and Senate to ban horse slaughter throughout the country without success. However, a budgetary provision banning the use of federal funds to carry out mandatory inspections at horse slaughter plants (necessary to allow interstate sale and exports of horse meat) has also been in place since 2007. This restriction was temporarily removed in 2011 as part of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2012, but was again included in the FY2014 Agriculture Appropriations Act and subsequent federal budgets, hence preventing the operation of any domestic horse slaughter operation. Until 2007, only three horse meat slaughterhouses still existed in the United States for export to foreign markets, but they were closed by court orders resulting from the upholding of aforementioned Illinois and Texas statutes banning horse slaughter and the sale of horse meat. The taboo surrounding horse meat in the United States received national attention again in May 2017 when a restaurant in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh served a dish containing horse tartare as part of a special event the restaurant was hosting with French Canadian chefs as guests. The restaurant, which otherwise does not serve horse meat (which is legal to serve and consume in Pennsylvania), received an inspection and a warning from the USDA not to serve horse meat again. A petition subsequently went up to advocate making serving horse meat illegal in Pennsylvania. From the 1920s and through the 1950s or 1960s, with a brief lapse during World War II, horse meat was canned and sold as dog food by many companies under many brands, most notably Ken-L Ration. Horse meat as dog food became so popular that by the 1930s, over 50,000 horses were bred and slaughtered each year to keep up with this specific demand. United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, the slaughter, preparation, and consumption of horses for food is not against the law, although it has been rare since the 1930s, and horse meat is not generally available. A cultural taboo against consuming horse meat exists in the UK, although it was eaten when other meats were scarce, such as during times of war, as was whale meat, which similarly failed to achieve popularity. The sale of meat labelled as horse meat in UK supermarkets and butchers is minimal, and most actual horse meat consumed in the UK is imported from continental Europe, predominantly from the south of France, where it is more widely eaten. Horse meat was featured in a segment of a 2007 episode of the Gordon Ramsay series The F Word. In the segment, Janet Street-Porter convinced locals to try horse meat, though not before facing controversy and being forced to move her stand to a privately owned location. The meat was presented as having a similar taste to beef, but with less fat, a high concentration of omega-3 fatty acids, and as a safer alternative in times of worry regarding bird flu and mad cow disease. The segment was met with skepticism from many viewers after broadcast for various reasons, either because some felt the practice was cruel and against social norms, or simply a belief that if the taste was really on par with other meats, then people would already be eating it. A company called Cowley's Fine Foods has also launched a horse jerky range called My Brittle Pony. As for the accidental consumption: Horse meat may be eaten without the knowledge of the consumer, due to accidental or fraudulent introduction of horse meat into human food. A 2003 Food Standards Agency investigation revealed that certain sausages, salami, and similar products such as chorizo and pastrami sometimes contained horse meat without it being listed, although listing is legally required. The 2013 horse meat scandal involved multiple products being recalled from shelves due to unlabelled horse meat in amounts up to 100% of the meat content. The killing of horses for human consumption is widely opposed in countries such as the U.S., UK, Australia and Greece where horses are generally considered to be companion and sporting animals only. Horse Meat is also produced & consumed all over the world including:- North America:- Canada Mexico United States South America:- Argentina Chile Uroguay Europe:- Austria Belgium Bulgaria Finland France Germany Hungry Iceland Italy Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Serbia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Asia-Pacific:- Australia China Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan Mongolia Philippines South Korea 🤔

[@SteveODonnell]

Pret a Manger is a chain of restaurants that sell coffee and sandwiches etc.

[@keithalanbaker535]

I was working at Bernard Matthews at the time of the Scandal and I remember driving around the yard on a forklift being followed by a news station helicopter.

[@TK-Will.]

Small bit re: Brexit. When in the EU we had a trade deal with Europe, basically straight through customs. Now we no longer have a trade deal we have to wait for customs clearance and see if we have to pay import tax (same with export). We even have to pay import tax on fuel. Gas, electricity, petrol etc As a small island we don’t have the resources to be totally independent. Which was one of the main reasons for joining back in the 70’s. We’re still waiting on the government to sort a trade deal, but I think the’ve forgotten about it 😅

[@Thee_Penguin]

'Pret a manger' is a posh Starbucks... sandwiches, cakes, coffee so on

[@danlesley327]

The Chinese shop down the road from me was caught selling cats and dogs

[@tarantulagirl666]

Years ago in the 70s we lived on a terraced street, my dad had a gun dog called Russ and every morning my mum would let Russ out the front door and he'd go 3 houses down and spend all day sitting with a teenage girl who was blind, she used to like to sit on the front step and Russ was her guard dog/ companion One day the girl came knocking at the door and said Russ hadn't shown up. My mum and dad searched the streets looking for him,put posters up and told the police etc and he was never seen again. A few weeks later the Chinese takeaway on the end of the road was closed down for selling food unfit for human consumption, the owners were charged with animal cruelty and health inspectors found dog and cat collars in the bins 🤢

[@neilgrundy]

I call bullshit. Which is easier, going out hunting people's pets or buying meat at the local cash and carry.

[@tarantulagirl666]

@@neilgrundy and I'll counter with this. Which is cheaper? Stray animals or cash and carry? Plus back when I was talking about, dogs wandering the streets was more common and acceptable than it is today. Plus it's not hard to actually catch cats, I've had 2 different ones in my fox trap this week, they think it's a buffet. Plus it is widely known that culturally, certainly amongst older generations of Chinese people eating dogs was (and still is) acceptable and enjoyed. Not saying every rumour that goes round about Chinese chippys selling pets is true but I bet it's happened

[@seeyouanon2931]

@turantulagirl666 That was similar to where I lived, but early 90's, people were complaining there dogs specifically were going missing, one night after the pub, we went to the local Chinese in town, I ordered beef curry and I could see just by looking at the texture and definitely the taste was not beef. And literally 5 minutes later 2 coppers went into the Chinese and were both chased out by a little chubby Chinese chef waving a chopper in the air, the Chinese was then closed down because they found dog skins in the bins out the back. Also last year an Indian restaurant was closed down for some very disgusting things, and one of them was they bought meat that was for animals because it was cheaper, that was the least disgusting thing believe me 🤢😳

[@neilgrundy]

It's an urban myth that's been going around for at least 50 years. Bullshit that's spouted in every town and city with a Chinese takeaway. Just think about it. Hunting pets is an illegal and unreliable source of meat which would eventually run out, lead to a loss of the business, and probable jail time. Whereas meat from the cash and carry is a legit and a reliable source. Which would you chose? Why do you think the Chinese would chose differently? No, as I said, it's an old urban myth and a racist one at that.

[@jimreid4367]

Horse meat is banned in the UK and rightly so , I once went to a McDonald's in Belgium and i thought i was ordering a Big Mac , i took one bite and spat it out it was disgusting i took it back to the counter and they told me it was horsemeat that i should have specified if i wanted beef . It not the worst thing i've put i my mouth though , that title is for the hershey's chocolate which is a bar of vomit . that deserves 10 yucks on the yuckometer 😂😂😂😂😂

[@BurpleRX7]

The scary thing is these were all high profile and investigated. The uk and eu has amazing food quality standards. Now just imagine what’s going on over there with your chlorinated chicken and corn syrup etc. grow and eat what you can. No one can be trusted

[@helenbarnett695]

I remember the foot and mouth, fields with smoke above, nature places were restricted, I also remember the horse meat scandal, there were memes everywhere lol

[@Hairnicks]

Most budget burgers are made from the left over scrapings, such as nipples, fat, lips etc, all the meat and flesh that cannot be sold. Always make your own, simple and delicious.

[@SteveODonnell]

How is that true? Most burger are 100% beef, usually mince. If it can't be sold then it wouldn't be used in burgers.

[@Hairnicks]

@SteveODonnell the nipples lips and scraping are all classed as beef, as long as it came off a cow it's 100% beef.

[@joanneentwistle7653]

2:50 People have eaten horsemeat for centuries. In the 70s in North America, many people intentionally bought the cheaper horse meat to cope with the inflation. The horses are a certain breed bred originally in France for meat. To be honest, I don't know if I can eat a horse, but it is not unheard of.

[@Maggieclayton57]

The E Coli outbreak was in my hometown, the butcher was run out of the town after he was charged. It was a terrible time in our town ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

[@85stace85]

I'm always glad I don't eat meat when scandals like this come out 😂

[@camriley]

@85stace85 in the 1940s (Aberdeen) and late 1960s (East England) there were cases of typhoid in Britain caused by infected canned corned beef from Argentina. My grandmother didn't live in either of these specific areas but she lived in London and after the 1960s incident she never bought another tin of corned beef again.

[@blackcountrybloke6788]

There was a butcher down the road from me who got had for selling Seabiscuit and back in the 80s a takeaway was serving up Garfield, loving the daily crimbo vids.🎄

[@stumccabe]

The French eat horse meat, but of course they also eat snails and frogs too!!!

[@lovetolay]

We don’t eat horse in the uk….france eat horse, frogs and snails,. But they are weird

[@tonycrayford3893]

Speak for yourself, I've got horse meat at home.

[@thomaslowdon5510]

( pret a manger ) is french. Its a chain store selling .. Ready to go foods. Mainly sandwiches. Really tasty fresh cut sandwiches.. pret a manger is Ready to eat..

[@jeanproctor3663]

A few years ago a friend of ours created a petition that would mean that supermarkets would have to donate their surplus and short dated food. It was successful at the time and actually went to Parliament to become legislation. But then the pandemic hit and I'm not sure if it's still used.

[@firstplumbline8925]

We were eating horse meat because the meat producers were passing it off as beef. This was imported beef/horse. Some countries regularly eat horse meat, especially France where it It is a delicacy.

[@chrisperyagh]

There was also Edwina Currie's salmonella in eggs scare in the '80s, soon followed by the Pepperami food scare.

[@gutz323]

Pret A Manger, is like a French 'Subway'. Its a chain of sandwich/cofee shops.

[@obijon7441]

Horse used to be commonly consumed in Britain until the early 1900's and continued to be popular in some parts until the 1970s, it was often labelled as 'kicker' rather than 'horsemeat'. I remember at the time the horsemeat scandal was kicking off, the tv news crews went to what they claimed was the last butcher's shop in Britain(in Halifax, West Yorkshire) that was still flogging a dead horse(badumtish), no seriously though, it said they were the only ones left still advertising kicker for sale.

[@obijon7441]

For the record, I have tried it(on holiday in France) and it tastes almost exactly like beef, if you didn't know what it was then it would be quite difficult to tell it apart from beef, hence why nobody noticed it was happening until someone decided to do some dna tests on cheap supermarket lasagnas/burgers.

[@sueKay]

That butcher had what looked like a regular shop - he just hadn't registered with the right professional body, so when they would do inspections, he wouldn't be on the list to be inspected, and then when he figured out he was responsible, he lied to try and keep out of trouble. I never ate any rotting pork (I don't eat a lot of pig products), but a few Christmases ago we opened the turkey on Christmas day and it was already rancid even though it was in-date. It happened to a lot of people!! Our supermarkets are terrible - they will prosecute homeless people dumpster diving rather than donating food to food banks and other organisations. Yeah there's been a LOT of empty supermarket shelves in the last few years, and I'd say where I am, the range of products available has shrunk in the past decade. There's less choice now. Pret a Manget (we just all call it Pret) is a large chain of sandwich shops. Foot and Mouth was absolutely horrific. We were going on holiday to Spain (on a coach, from Scotland!) during the worst of this and I remember there were just pyres of burning farm animals the length of the UK. We couldn't take any food on the ferry either and for months there were disinfectant pads at the entrances to parks and things to stop the spread of it. I think you might have been thinking of Hand, Foot and Mouth disease, which kids do get. I've accidentally eaten horse in Belgium cos I ordered steak assuming it would be beef... it was actually really nice (very similar to beef) but I won't eat it again!! I probably did eat it in some of those frozen meals in the UK though. I don't really remember BSE cos I was like 9 or 10 when it all kicked off, but I remember everyone was paranoid about eating beef because of it.

[@ingobordewick6480]

German "Sauerbraten" is a traditional dish made from horse meat and it is delicious. Invented during the napoleonic wars, because of foodshortage and dead horses laying around on the battlefields, people made the meat softer with a bath of vinegar for days, which also made the meat a bit sour, what lead to the name "Sauerbraten" sauer = sour. because of a lack of horse butchers now, it is mostly made from beef, but the traditional dish is horse meat and in some places you can still get it and it is, as I said, delicious.

[@danielorrell8423]

Strangely I associate foot and mouth with animals more so than babies. The news in 2001 was why! (I was 12 years old)

[@ianprince1698]

I had had an operation during the BSE problems and was advised not to donate blood in case of infection

[@philiptodd6255]

During the foot and mouth crises I remember seeing piles of burning animals

[@wildadventure5101]

Foot and mouth is different than Hand foot and mouth. Hand foot and mouth is what you were thinking of. :)

[@garibaldi54]

14:49 thats what is classed as grass fed beef.

[@anta3612]

Pret A Manger is a UK-based sandwich shop chain.

[@scottgeorge4268]

The date of the chicken shortage? APRIL FIRST... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Horse meat is regularly eaten on France.

[@annbrewer2299]

The foot and mouth one was weird. I live in the country and you used to go past farms full of animals and then all of a sudden they were empty

[@onyxstewart9587]

I remember the mad cow disease thing when I was a kid in the 1990s. My parents banned me from eating beef at the time and to this day I rarely ever eat beef as it was so drilled into me back then that beef is unsafe. I know it's fine to eat now but I still can't shake that off!

[@littlemy1773]

I know someone who died from CJD a few years ago . This person spent a lot of time on a dairy farm . But we’ve been since told the two things were unrelated 🤷‍♀️

[@michaelcaffery5038]

​@@littlemy1773that does seem suspicious until you know the pathogen, a type of prion, is in the central nervous system (brain and spine) and not in milk or on the skin as far as I'm aware.

[@janicevango5791]

I did read at the time that the EU were very quick to ban our meat, but it was found that some EU countries’ BSE was worse than ours but covered it up.

[@budwise7332]

Country smelt like bbq for months 😂

[@kimblecheat]

No, no we don’t: a pie company was using horse meat.

[@shaunrye7740]

Asda were also selling Irish beef mince that was mixed with horse meat

[@steveo4991]

Yes, yes we do. You can get horse meat from butchers. It’s indistinguishable from beef taste wise (which is why it was used) and is more healthy, lean, and nutritious than beef. The only issue with the ‘scandal’ was that it wasn’t declared.

[@mymindworks6625]

@@steveo4991 You don't speak for nor account for all brits mate. I eat ostrich burgers that I get from my butcher, I'm not that egotistical that I'm going to declare "Brits eat Ostrich". We don't. It's not in our modern cuisine, just like horse or kangaroo. You can't order it at a restaurant, you won't find a McHorse at maccies, it's not in a supermarket, and it isn't advertised. How full of ones self must an individual be to say their actions reflect that of a nation?

[@steveo4991]

@@mymindworks6625 Said the clown speaking for other people. Funny that you didn’t get triggered by the OP speaking for others… And you can get it in restaurants. Demand for horse meat is also rising year after year, funny what a cost of living crisis will do. So yes, we objectively do eat horse meat. Claiming we don’t is straight up false and nowhere did I claim everyone does. Cry more, smooth brain.

[@Gavthelegend]

Pret A Manger is a coffee shop/outlet like Costa or Starbucks.

[@92lecstu01]

Never actually been in a Pret A Manger but it's basically Posh Greggs, croissants, sandwiches and coffee

[@urbanshadow777]

Findus used to make just shepherd's pie and cottage pie. Now they are making stable pie. It's an old joke about horse being found in the pies. Also Bernard Matthews had a second scandal where they were using the chickens and Turkies as a ball to play base ball.

[@pg1144]

Im British and agree with @Salfordian. I dont know of anyone from the UK eating horse meat, they do in other parts of Europe

[@tonycrayford3893]

You can buy it in my local butchers. It's pretty good.

[@Freddy_Bear_Bland]

12 month watching you Thankyou both for the videos and good luck with your new home looking foward to seeing what you do with the pond/puddle

[@EmilyCheetham]

Pret A Manger (or pret for short) is a coffee chain a bit like Starbucks.

[@shagglife]

That one warehouse was in my town in oldham big ass freezer company at least we didn't run out round ere

[@TheRockSlugg]

Pret A Manger is a fast food chain, in French it literally means Ready to Eat

[@WelshAmethystGirl087]

Most of our local chip shops had to stop selling beef cutlets which are a fav in our chippy's,this was due to them having horse meat once they came back and were total beef they weren't as nice alot of people I know said they tasted better with the horse meat. I think people were more upset that they didn't know vs it being the meat they weren't happy with

[@torros1839]

When I was I northern Italy there were plenty of butchers that specialised in Horse meat

[@roddavis2876]

And Hollad

[@roddavis2876]

Holland

[@jacksonmacmanus1001]

Pret a manger is a sandwich chain, but not subway sandwich style, like normal sandwiches but they always have odd flavours and overly pretentious ingredients, their drinks are usually good though

[@jameslewis2635]

To be fair, horse meat is commonly eaten in Europe and the flavor is very similar to that of beef. In fact, I had a horse steak as a child and the only difference I could tell is that it was a bit chewy. Horse meat is not something you would usually come across in the UK though as most of the horses in the UK are kept for riding or racing.

[@chrystpick7741]

Your thinking hand, foot and mouth, which causes diarrhea and vomiting in mostly found children, And spreads very easily around schools and nursery's. It'd main cause is not washing hands after using the bathroom

[@TimDawsonify]

Pret A Manger is a sandwich/coffee shop chain in the UK (a pun on Pret A Porter, meaning Ready to Wear, Pret A Manger means Ready to Eat)

[@RighAlban]

Pret a manger is also in the US.

[@tarantulagirl666]

I remember the bad foot and mouth outbreak,i was working as a nurse at the time and was working at a hospice out in the sticks,driving through some back country roads i could see the piles of carcasses in some farms 🤢 Eta you're thinking of hand foot and mouth that kids get JT. Different thing than the foot and mouth that cloven hooved animals get

[@mikeoxlong4110]

It was Fake like Convid

[@DaveBartlett]

I remember the previous Foot & Mouth outbreak before 2007. My daughters and son were all young children at that time, and while travelling from Keswick to Ambleside on the top deck of the Service 555 double decker, my youngest, after looking down from the window to a field adjacent to the roadside said "Why are all those sheep lying down together?" I looked where she was looking to see a culling exercise taking place, and the bodies of somewhere around 100 sheep being stacked against the dry stone wall, to await removal and burning.

[@tarantulagirl666]

@@DaveBartlett I think it was the one before 2007 when I saw the carcases too, I qualified in 1995 so I was definitely driving around doing various nursing jobs during the late 90s/early 2000's. I just remember thinking how awful it was and thinking of those farmers watching their lives go up in smoke. I know farmers get a bad rap with some people but my niece is a herdsman for a large dairy herd in the Midlands, I know she'd be devastated if anything happened to her 'girls' Obviously as a farmer you'll always lose animals, if you've got livestock at some point you'll have deadstock, but to lose them all like that must be just devastating

[@PeterSutcliffe-de5vz]

I was sat eating a findus lasagne when it came on the news that it contained horse meat

[@audiocoffee]

missing off this is the boot polish in food scandal because the element used was found to potentially cause cancer. I remember going shopping on the day it was announced that millions of £££ worth of ready meals and other food items were to be taken off supermarket shelves immediately. seeing the shelves empty of ready meals made me smile a little as folks were wondering what hey were going to eat. it also made me more aware of what I was eating. I remember foot & mouth and the burning pyres on the farms surrounding the area. it was truly awful. I haven't eaten meat in a very long time (BSE and the whole CJD thing nailed that door shut) and having since become clincally vegan (meat/meat produce and anything coming from the body of any animal makes me seriously ill. the price for having my gallbladder removed), I haven't missed eating meat. it's been a fun exciting journey finding other things I can eat - and coupled with a ton of other food allergies, makes eating into a game of russian roulette. can't eat out, can't order in. ingredients have to be double checked. eggs are also banned as I'm dangerously allergic. yes, our food standards were forced to be improved - for all the reasons in this video and more. we have some of the strictest rules for food and food prep. that extends to places that serve food - hygiene ratings tell you whether a place is good or bad. btw, the boot polish thing is the reason we don't have much rootbeer. it was in great abundance until that time. and I absolutely love rootbeer. haven't found anything that comes even close to replacing it.

[@Ginger_Dalek]

Pret A Manger is a high-end (some would say poncey) sandwich shop.

[@nickdaybyday]

In France if you get a steak that isnt labelled beef then it is in fact 99% going to be Horse. Theyre not that bad to be honest

[@smeghead1]

The UK still eats Bernard Matthews food items 😂😂

[@grahamgresty8383]

The symptoms of eating horse meat are a sore throat (becoming a little hoarse) and getting 'the trotts'

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

We don`t eat horse meat in the UK. I was once given it in France in a Sheperds` Pie ( we don`t eat sheperds either ) but none of the group of Britons I was with were told at the time we ate it. It was only the following day that it was pointed out to us. Upon learning the news many of the group I was in were appalled and gagged. I though to myself, " well, I ate it and at the tiime it tasted very nice." as far as I`m concerned itdoesn`tbother me that I ate it. But I`m not so sure I would have eaten it if I`d been given prior notice......