It’s very tasty, definitely gamy, extremely tender, and delicious but only in small quantities. Eat it first in your sushi order, not last. Here is more information.
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Horsemeat sushi
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It’s not sushi (which is a kind of rice) but “bazashi”, more akin to sashimi (the sashi and zashi come from the same character)
Just makes me madder that everyone’s trying to stop people from slaughtering horses in the United States. Now what chance do I have to enjoy their delicious flesh?
Does anyone else keep misreading the title of this blog post? The proximity of “horse” and “sushi” keeps making me see a naughty word.
Is this a subconscious reflection of my opinion of Marginal Revolution?
Once I was eating hamburgers my mom had made when we lived in France, they tasted unusually good so we checked the package, and realized that instead of ground beef we’d just eaten ground horse! Despite the good taste we were sufficiently repulsed so as to never eat it again…although now I would definitely try it if I were back in France.
It disgusts me that people can talk in such a carefree way about these amazing animals. “Just makes me madder that everyone’s trying to stop people from slaughtering horses in the United States. Now what chance do I have to enjoy their delicious flesh? “? WTF. This is ignorant and repulsive. If one were to eat horse meat, although i hope no one would as it is horrible and disgusting, they should at least give the animal they got it from some respect. Many of those horses you are eating are unsuccessful racehorses from the USA. Have you ever experienced interacting and bonding with a horse? I strongly believe no one should eat anything they haven’t had experience with bonding beforehand; you might rethink your choices.
I generally only eat horse with a side order of whale tripe.
Debating the consumption of horse meat is a senseless discussion. Westerners are instinctively repulsed by the idea of consuming a companion animals. For societies that don’t treat those animals as companions. there is no such problem.
The only thing we can ask is that societies that choose to do this do so in a sustainable way that causes the minimal discomfort for the animal. One thing I can’t abide is the abuse of a resource (farming / hunting to extinction) or unnecessary cruelty (slaughtering animals in some ritualistic or superstitious way that causes the animal’s dying moments to be unnecessarily prolonged).
How about some anagrams of “horsemeat bazashi”?
Possible responses to “Tyler! It’s an intelligent horse! You shouldn’t eat that!”
Bah! She aromatizes!
Aah! Braize those, Ma!
Obi hazes a hamster
Zombies hate Sarah
And the winner for clarity and the Japanese-connection:
Her hit soba amazes! (horsemeat soba anyone?)
Horse tastes good. Is generally sold in Swiss stores, I will never be able to figure out just why you’re supposed to eat cow but not horse. Either you eat animals or you don’t, but eating one but not the other because it is “cruel to do so” is utterly hypocritical.
I have not tried dog or cat (at least not knowingly) but morally I don’t have an issue with it (except for maybe the point of it being pretty inefficient to eat predators but thats true for salmon, as well).
To quote the immortal Rodney Dangerfield as Al Czervik in Caddyshack,
“This steak still has marks from where the jockey was hitting it.†
“I’ve met some *really* smart and personable chickens (seriously).”
Ah, more evidence of the harmful effects of vegetarianism on the brain.
The problem of getting communicable diseases from eating human flesh will be solved once we have vat-grown meat and USDA inspections.
Someone is going to do it. I predict it won’t be in Japan (despite their notorious penchant for what we consider to be strange food) and it won’t be in America (despite our incredibly broad cultural diversity and mind-numbing levels of decadence). My money is on China – although it will almost immediately be suppressed by the government.
I’ve ridden horses all my life, and I feel a strong connection with them. In movies, I can watch a hundred people die in a battle scene without trouble, but I’m very disturbed to watch the death of a single horse. (However, I do value human life more than equine life as a general rule.)
So personally, I’m not sure that I’d opt to eat horse meat — but I can’t see any universal objection to doing so. Either it’s okay to kill animals for human consumption or it’s not — and whether some members of that species are also good companion animals seems like nothing more than emotionalism.
As for chickens, I was acquainted with more than a few in my childhood, and all were the spawn of the devil — except one.
I was reading “The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World”, and it appears (I have no reason to believe the claim is original in this book) horses were originally domesticated AS food animals – their hooves allowed them to survive winter better than cattle, goat, or sheep. Riding came long afterward.
As this post slowly sinks down the home page, it’s time to illustrate the economic principle of diminishing returns! Let’s scrape a few more anagrams from the bottom of the barrel:
Hot masher issue
I house hamsters
Rise, shout “Shame!”
Some sushi hater
Hie, hot masseurs!
Other sushi? Same
Here, a hot missus
A hermit hoses us
A shire: some huts
She is a US mother
Shout “He’s a miser!”
He smashes, I rout
I oust smasher, eh?
Um, eats his horse
Hums: I eat horses
Oh, I use hamsters
The shame is ours
You complain that I have posted too many anagrams?
Hush, I erase most.
UR ALL RETARDED WHATS THE POINT … EAT PIG!!!
Kaitlin, I’m not a rich white person, so I have NO chance at getting to know a horse. For us normal income americans, horses aren’t companions, since we can’t afford them and can only see them from a roadside somewhere. They’re just another animal on the farm with hooves. And now we find they TASTE good? It’s ON! Gimme!! Why should everyone else suffer just cuz the caucasians love horses so much they’d spend thousands taking care of them, then waste the meat? That meat is tastier and better for you than beef, yet it gets wasted. WTF?
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If you want to eat horse meat in your country then by all means have a great time, but eat your own horses! I am a horse advocate here in the us. and would greatly appreciate it if you would not eat horses coming from the North American companies. This is for many reasons, not just because its evil to eat little suzie’s pony from down the street that has given her the best years of his or her life. Its also because these horses have been kept as pets and companions. These animals are contaminated with many cancer causing agents. Dewormer for example~ The compounds never leave the horses body, Vaccines, Antibiotics, Bute (pain killer), Arthiristis med, and many more other daily supplements. These horses are extremely stressed in the last week of their lives as they go thru the horrific process of transport and slaughter. Many horses from the US that end up in slaughter have had less than stress free lives and have been badly abused or starved, not from a life of freedom in pastures with grass to their knees. Many have been worked very hard thru there lives by the Amish and then thrown to slaughter. Some are stolen from their owners back yard! Do not believe any advertisement by North American Companies selling horse meat. Its all a lie for you the consumer to feel good about their product. N.A. Horse Meat is POISON!
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