[oldsalt]

When beef was rationed during WW2,around 1942-43,I can recall the local butcher shop with a sign saying,"Fresh horsemeat today".

My Mom would buy it and feed it to the family and none of complained at all.As I recall it tasted great and was more tender than most of the beef that was available via the ration book.

[Fledermaus]

Same thing in the 1970’s when Nixon (idiot) enacted wage and price controls. Along with Carter’s later stagflation, horsemeat was sold a lot in NY and NJ and other big cities.

I remember an “All in the Family” epsiode about eating horsemeat.