Burger King Finds Horse Meat in Some of Its 'Beef' Burgers
The news that over 10 million burgers were recalled due to the possibility they contained horse meat
just got a little hairier. While it's only affecting our friends across
the pond -- supposedly we're eating strictly horse-free burgers
stateside -- it's nevertheless disheartening to hear that Burger King, a venerable fast food joint many of us love, discovered some horse-tainted meat at one of their processing plants.
They tested for horse DNA (equine DNA, if you're fancy like that) at some of their local restaurants and the results came back negative -- it was only at their processing plant where the tainted meat was discovered.
Apparently, the vendor they used for their U.K. sourced beef was surreptitiously receiving meat from a Polish plant that supplemented their patties with horse meat. One out of every 27 patties from that Polish plant was, wait for it, 29 percent horse meat.
Granted, horse meat isn't dangerous nor especially unhealthy -- it's just, when you eat a burger, you expect it to be all cow with perhaps a rogue rubber glove or human finger inside, but never horse. It's not a food safety issue, it's more of a food tasty-like-horsey issue.
But hey, think of the bright side. Had Burger King found equine meat burgers in their restaurants, they could've served up some sliders called horse d'oeuvres.
Ba dum, ching!
What are your thoughts on this horse meat scandal?
I do not eat at fast food places like Burger King anymore. Haven't in years.
U.S. fast food in other countries truly is another beast. ha! They have different rules and different clientele and cater to the tastes there as they do here. If they said they were serving beef and did that then it is wrong regardless of what country you're in.
I don't know what horse tastes like, but I've had venison and it does have a different taste. I've had buffalo, and it just tastes like beef.
Quoting Why123:I like Burger King although I only eat there very rarely. Horse meat may be aesthetically displeasing but I imagine that if they hadn't checked nobody would have noticed. Meat is meat and it basically all tastes the same.
When I was in university, I ate at Burger King once a week. It was on my rotation of places that I ate because it was in walking distance of the campus.
Quoting Why123:I like Burger King although I only eat there very rarely. Horse meat may be aesthetically displeasing but I imagine that if they hadn't checked nobody would have noticed. Meat is meat and it basically all tastes the same.
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- Cafe MichelleP
on Feb. 2, 2013 at 9:37 AM