The Germans actually pre-Pferd the more traditional beef lasagne.

That's what friends are for.. but we must work on how the carcases of dogs should made to look like...dead ducks? When there's a will, there's a way, I tell ya!

OMG, it gets worse

It could be even worse!

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Since we're going down that road...

(and yes, this is common in basically every restaurant in ZA)





But no, it's not really from monkeys. It's a weird type of BBQ sauce.

Anyone worried about Penguins and Panda Licorice?

It is said that food producers across Europe finally started to properly label food products

I raise you Slag Cream...

I remember seeing doing a double take at that in Sainsbury's last year and thinking, well at least someone in the buying dept. has a sense of humour

Eep, I fold. I just read a page with the 10 most disgusting foods and I don't have the heart or stomach to share the link here. Google if you dare.

Back on topic - It's not so much that horse is disgusting (I'm sure I've eaten it since I've had Coop lasagna at least once), it's that it was not labeled as such. Had the label said horse I would have chosen differently.

Too many different links, some of which have foods that I have eaten, and will again.

Tom

When I first lived in the UK, I couldn't believe people were buying and eating 'Puke a pie' - and thought they must contain pretty dodgy stuff

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21455060

Hmmm, there's a lot of horse meat around...Business was good, oder?

You weren't wrong there!

The Normans? Don't be daft, they had a very agricutural way of life, growing veg and raising their own beasts and poultry right on the doorstep with strip farming and the medieval field system. But the Lords of the Manors kicked the peasants out so they could raise sheep for the new wool industry and so their serf peasants could become the new factory fodder- living tightly in towns with not a tiny bit of land to grow or raise anything, and losing their roots with the land.

Denying that early industrialisation didn't take people away from raising own animals and growing own crops, fruit and veg - and cooking them- is a bit silly too. Switzerland was a very agricultural country until very recently, with the majority of people living in the countryside- same in France and Italy and other European countries that industrialised much later than England. Even now, the only people here in rural Switzerland I know who eat ready meals are the elderly. Families can't afford to anyway - ready meals are definitely NOT a cheap option.

Three words: Maggi, Knorr, Nestle.

My mum did sometimes put a bit of Maggi or Knorr in her homemade soups or stews - and I think we sometimes had a few squares of Nestlé chocolate in our afternoon pain au chocolat. Always cooked from scratch even though she worked very full-time and had to commute.

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The point you missed being the fact that those three companies, famous throughout the world for their production of industrial convenience food, were originally Swiss.

Actually, at least in Switzerland, fast food restaurants like other "normal" either state in their menu or in a highly visible place of the eating room the origins of their various meats, by type and country. And usually it's Swiss. So not so much need to panic on that... just so long as you realise what really goes into ground meat products.