Horse meat found in Ikea's Swedish meatballs

AP ^

[Perdogg]

Swedish furniture giant Ikea was drawn into Europe's widening food labeling scandal Monday as authorities said they had detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labeled as beef and pork and sold in 13 countries across the continent.

[b4its2late]

That’s why they’re so TASTY!

[PeteB570]

But the big question is “Do they taste good?”

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I would try horse meat but I would like to know that is what it was.

[alloysteel]

Where did people think all those huge herds of mustangs that roam the American Southwest were disappearing to?

Dogs can eat only so much canned food, you know. And more and more, that is being made up of plant products.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

I’m pretty sure I’m not the first person who’s thought of this, but a lot of this horsemeat comes from Romania, from facilities allegedly controlled by organized crime there.

As we all know, organized crime has a funny way of making its enemies conveniently, and permanently, disappear. Think....Jimmy Hoffa, etc.,

So - anyone else putting two and two together? I hope they’re testing for more than horse DNA.

Just sayin’.

[yldstrk]

eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Red Badger]

Hoffa.......The ‘other white meat’..........

[Red Badger]

Swedish Meatballs?.........Next thing you know they’ll be finding it in lutefisk!.........

[Red Badger]

There’s nothing really ‘bad’ about horse meat, per se, but the problems stems from the veterinary drugs that may be found in a horse that would then be found in the food product.........

[TheGunny]

I LIKE HORSE MEAT!!!

[yldstrk]

the reason I replied was the implication that there could be human meat mixed in which was suggested by another poster.

Now I understand why the family butcher I buy from grinds their own

[wbill]

My uncle - who survived the Great War (the first war to end all wars) - said that horse was OK, but he always preferred mule because it was sweeter.

I took his word for it.

[Red Badger]

Taste like chicken?........

[dennisw]

[AnAmericanAbroad]

I’m being partially facetious - I do have a dark sense of humor - but on the other hand, it’s a distinct possibility.

When I first read that a lot of the horsemeat being found in Europe was coming out of Romanian abattoirs linked to Romanian organized crime, my first thought was, “Uh huh. Any unsolved disappearances in Romania lately, huh?”

It’s gross, to be sure, but it’s not a possibility I can’t entirely dismiss either.

[Ditter]

I was visiting some relatives in New Mexico several years ago and we went to a small grocery store to buy steaks. The meat they bought didn’t look like beef. It was extremely dark, it didn’t taste quite like beef either but it was good. The relatives said it was NM beef but I said I thought it was elk. I have eaten elk meat many times, they had not, it was elk.

[yldstrk]

you never know. If you have a food processor you can grind your own beef.

[Hoodat]

Ruh roh.

[Red Badger]

Hannibal Lechter Abattoirs?......

[RadiationRomeo]

Human would be easier to disguise as pork. The taste is similar. So I'm told.
(cannibals somewhere referred to human meat as ‘long pig’)

[Rio]

Horse?

[AnAmericanAbroad]

It was Polynesian cannibals that referred to people as ‘long pig’.

We have a local butcher’s chain in the Moravian-Silesia region that I go to for what I want. It’s actually slightly cheaper here to go to a butcher than to a supermarket. Lower markups.

When I crave Hebrew National hot dogs, there’s a Turkish mini-market here that carries them. It’s the only place I’ve seen in this region that has them.

[bgill]

Tastes like glue?

Just wait until IKEA serves solent green.

[Chad N. Freud]

The race is not alwys to the Swift’s.

[Celtic Conservative]

Soylent hoffa?

[browniexyz]

Does no one here on Free Republic remember that Obama authorized by executive order on Thanksgiving Day the eight horse slaughterhouses here in the US? And just where do you all think that horsemeat is going? To IKEA?? THINK AGAIN!!!

[duffee]

A “Swedish Meatball and Furniture” store?

[skinkinthegrass]

"How could you? ... Willl..bur?"

[elcid1970]

(Rules)

“Will..burr...wh-what are you doing with that chainsawww!!!?”

[tacticalogic]

That’s what happens when you buy your meat and glue from the same supplier......

[hummingbird]

"But the big question is “Do they taste good?”

Kind of like 'spotted owl'...

No more Swedish meatballs for me!

[tumblindice]

“Waiter—are these whip marks on my steak? Oh, the hugh manatee ... Wilbur!”
Mr. Ed

[ExCTCitizen]

Taste like Chicken...

[TangoLimaSierra]

So what? It says “meat balls”. Just be glad it’s meat and not the other.

[skinkinthegrass]

“Will..burr...wh-what are you doing with that chainsawww!!!?”"i'm feeling (somewhat) peckish" ...
*thinking horse-hash*

[dfwgator]

“Mamma Mia, that’s a spicy meatball.”

[dfwgator]

“Parts is Parts.”

[QT3.14]

What ‘Triggered’ the investigation?